Right now, combat for knights is ridiculously lethal, which doesn't really fit with my understanding of knightly combat in the middle ages. I propose that instead of slaughtering each other, knights who defeat other knights imprison and, unless they have a reason not to, ransom them. This really gives me this medieval-esque sense of war being a gentlemen's game between the highborn who are trying to earn prestige and money by defeating and ransoming each other while the commoners are trampled underfoot. As far as I know ransoming important captives is an integral part of "tribal" warfare as well. I think knights should still sometimes wound or (rarely) maim or kill their opponents, after all they are still fighting for real, but they should try to capture their defeated opponents instead of slaughtering them. Levies and man at arms should still kill knights if they get the chance, after all the laws of chivalry don't apply to them so it makes sense for to be a two way street (and who would capture the knight anyway?).
If it is not possible to implement a prison system for unlanded knights they could just get gold from the defeated knight in an event, representing him having been imprisoned and ransomed. If the knight can't pay the liege would get the option to pay in an event. If neither of them pays, the knight is automatically executed.
If it is not possible to implement a prison system for unlanded knights they could just get gold from the defeated knight in an event, representing him having been imprisoned and ransomed. If the knight can't pay the liege would get the option to pay in an event. If neither of them pays, the knight is automatically executed.
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