Prisoner Escapes and Duels

Key Features

• []Playable prisoner escapes

  []Prisoner duels and recruitment

  []Prisoner tournaments (arena training)

  []Hero abduction

  []Hero release trade dialog

  []Threaten heroes

  []Large party escapes

  []Break out friendly heroes from enemy castles.

  []Prisoner exchanges

  []Dungeon escapes

• (NEW) Bounty System

  Playable prisoner escapes

  Each night in captivity, you’re prompted to attempt an escape. Saying yes drops you into a bespoke escape fight against a small, randomized

  guard force (up to around 10 enemies), with limited gear and a focus on sneaking, scrambling, and desperate melee. There's three flavors of escapes, 1) Small camp escapes (< 50 troops in captor party), Large party escapes, and dungeon escapes. They're described below in more detail.

  Large party escapes

  If you're captured by a party with more than 50 units and you're not in a town, you'll be prompted with a large

  party escape instead of the normal one. This is a large custom scene

  with up to 40 enemies. There's two routes to escape in order to complete

  the mission, but if you alert too many guards they'll all be after you!

  Sneak attacks don't alert nearby guards, but regular attacks will.

  If you choose to go to the enemy hero tent, you'll be prompted with a

  dialog. If you choose to signal for help, you can spawn up to 10

  friendlies to help you fight turning it into a full blow battle. Your

  allies will also bring your armor for a proper fight. Should you win,

  the tables are turned and the enemy hero becomes YOUR captive. You might

  want to consider killing as many guards beforehand to make your job

  Should you purposefully let yourself get captured so you can abduct the enemy hero? That's up to you.

  Dungeon Escapes

  You spawn in a dungeon and can sneak or fight your way out. Alerting too

  many enemies at once will call in reinforcements though, so be careful!

  If there are any other heroes imprisoned at the same settlement, you'll be

  able to free them as well and they will help you. When you escape, any

  freed prisoners will escape with you so long as they're still conscious.

  Hero abduction

  Neutral or hostile towns and castles that you make your way into gain a new option: pay to disguise yourself and up to

  three companions and raid the lord’s hall. If you succeed, you abduct

  the target hero and keep them as your prisoner; if you fail, you become

  the prisoner instead. The number of guards that spawn scales with the

  garrison size of the town or castle, and you have limited time before

  reinforcements arrive, so be quick.

  Cost is 5,000 denars plus 1,000 for each