Should i occupy enslave or exterminate

Normally it's around the same amount as the amount of people killed. It also increases public order due to fear and less squalor.

But this can also have bad long-term economic effects. My Gondor hotseat campaign. Please Help! Hussarknight Seraph Emeritus. A tip- when this scroll appears at Battle's End, move thy mouse to one side or another. Thou shall see that the map under also moves, often enough to reveal the burg upon it.

Look at the color of the face. If green, thou may occupy without further problems. If yellow, enslave. If the face is red, or the burg is named Corduba, exterminate. Seems just about every time you take over a new city, the townsfolk are heavy in the red mode.

I just hate to exterminate them all the time. Erzin Legionary. AAR Coming real soon :P. OR, the more thinned your army is, then take it to harsher methods.

If I'm playing as Brutii, and I capture A city like Pergamum or another city east of, say, the east Mediteranian coast, I enslave or slaughter thew people reccomend the former to get off to a "fresh" start. Professor Chaos Legionary. I simply cannot withstand that buggerin' red face under me cities. And I don't have the patience to micromanage me guvnors around so my villages will grow with slaves.

Drakedeath Legionary. Exterminate: Public order is red, need cash Enslave: Public order is blue or yellow, need population boost, want retinue retinue tends to be Slave Trader, Civilized Slave, or Barbarian Slave, depending on region Occupy: Public order is green, need to recruit heavily in the city. MarcusMaximus Legionary. I find getting above the 2, town upgrade limit brings a great deal of prosperity. I have never been tossed out as long as I leave it properly defended.

On an extremely rare occassion, I will exterminate, but I need to be desperate for cash to build a few units because I am about to be reamed somewhere else. Between 2,,, I either enslave or exterminate, mostly depending on my cash needs.

Between 2,, I may just occupy since I rarely get any real benefit from either the enslave or exterminate options, desperation aside. After the 6, limit, I burn everything to the ground. You exterminate if the town's infrastructure is of no use to you and you just want to loot and pillage, this one goes without saying. You occupy if the city possesses buildings and resources that you actually want to use and get the most out of in the long run.

If you capture a huge city with amazing infrastructure and buildings, you'll want to have as many people living there as possible to generate max tax revenue, etc.

So the amount of unrest that results is inversely proportional to how much you want to get out of the city in the long run. To completely assimilate it with minimal damage costs you the biggest up front investment of garrisoned troops, whereas totally destroying it for some quick cash now will pretty much eliminate any resistance but also make it very hard to actually take advantage of the city's pre-existing buildings in the future.

Exterminating is most useful in the larger cities. Obviously, you're not going to gain any immediate income for exterminating a tiny town. But if the city either has a huge population, or a ridiculously high growth rate, you're better off exterminating the populace than dealing with rebellion and riots.

Unless you plan to use the new city to replenish thousands of soldiers in your armies, of course. One of my biggest problems in-game is controlling the growth of population.

Particularly when you get farther from your capital, you already need to sacrifice construction of more useful buildings to build things to increase happiness. It's virtually impossible to control a far-flung empire with complete culture penalties and massive populations that are so unhappy that there's almost no way to not have them rioting and revolting. Sign up to join this community. The best answers are voted up and rise to the top. Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group.

Create a free Team What is Teams? Learn more. Occupy, enslave, or exterminate? Ask Question. Asked 8 years, 11 months ago. Active 4 years, 9 months ago. Viewed 31k times. Improve this question. I had to use auto victory since the battle was to laggy when I started it, being unplayable.

If you exterminate the population or enslave you don't get this option, or does it come later in the game? When the population increases? Does anyone know? August 12, , PM 8. Probably, the Senate never built this building, and it should reappear as population increases either past or , dunno which one is relevant for this one you mention. August 12, , PM 9.

August 12, , PM That structure takes about 5 turns to make. In about turns the population will be at that level anyway, right? August 13, , AM How about making a screenshot of it? Id love to see it actually.