Cathing your realm's scouts?

[mikm]

I've noticed it's posibly to catch a scout belonging to your own realm.Had a cout vanish whn scouting one of our own areas.And captured a scout belonging to our own nobles.Do these scouts disapear after geting caught?

[vonGenf]

They get beaten up. They're useless afterwards. If someone from your realm catches a scout but the scout is still worth anything afterward, chances are he's not a real noble.

[mikm]

Rather crazy feature.

[Gustav Kuriga]

It's quite fun RP-wise. When I lost one, I told the noble who caught mine not to worry about it, because if a scout could not remember to take his official papers stating he is in my service with him, he deserves to be beat and thrown off the side of the road. Now to get an adventurer to role-play the scout...

[mikm]

Or you could ban scout catcher for being a traitor.

[JPierreD]

Or you could ban scout catcher for being a traitor.

...for beating up a commoner?

[egamma]

he's not a very good scout if he got caught! He could have led the enemy back to your camp!

[GoldPanda]

The conversation usually goes like this:

Noble A: My lord B, it seems that my men have captured one of your scouts, sir. I beg your pardon.
Noble B: Worry not, my lord A. I do not tolerate such incompetence among my scouts. He is released from my service, sir.
Noble A: Very well, sir. I shall send him back to his guild for re-training, after his wounds heal.

It's a cost of waging war I'm afraid.

[mikm]

For complicating things for your army. As for beating a comonor you can get punished for that.Depends on realm policy.Some nobles may claim certain comoners to be under their protection-adventurers-hapened to me.

Anyway-wish there was an active way nobles could catch scouts, instead it all being acidental.

[GoldPanda]

Ah, but beating up an adventurer is something that you actively chooses to do. Beating up a scout is something the game inflicts on you. You don't have a choice in the matter.

No sane Judge would try to punish someone for beating up a scout. His peers would protest him out of office within the day, because it can literally happen to anyone.

[mikm]

Ah, but beating up an adventurer is something that you actively chooses to do. Beating up a scout is something the game inflicts on you. You don't have a choice in the matter.

No sane Judge would try to punish someone for beating up a scout. His peers would protest him out of office within the day, because it can literally happen to anyone.

The game mesage says you beat him up to find out who he is working for.Why doesn't the scout just tell you without the need of beating up?After all this isn't an enemy noble.

[Telrunya]

Because any enemy scout will tell you he's friendly as well.

[mikm]

Because any enemy scout will tell you he's friendly as well.

A beat up scout could lie no?If the scout has no papers on him or material proof how can you trust his words?

[Tom]

A beat up scout could lie no?If the scout has no papers on him or material proof how can you trust his words?

If you move into enemy lands, would you carry papers with you that identifies you as the enemy?

And, according to medieval thinking, once you've beaten him up enough, he'll stop lying.

[mikm]

It's ot always enemy land.It can be your own realm's regions for instance.