I've put together a fast, brutal party of slavers, and we love to burn villages. My dream is to undermine the economy of Rhodoks so badly that the other kingdoms devour their lands.
However, I'm not certain that such plunder actually affects the AI players. Does anyone know? I'm suspicious because of things like the AI magically spawning new soldiers into a garrison, without any lord recruiting them, training them, or moving them in. I assume that the AI uses many shortcuts. Since I've never seen an AI lord enter a village (and collect his taxes), it makes me wonder if that economy matters at all.
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Even if M&B simulates the economy where amount of goods produced by villages determines amount of goods that are sent to the cities (which I doubt) raiding may not influence economy as much as you think. Because rhodok parties also loot villages, thus supplying local market with the spoils. Also just one party that goes around burning villages'n'rapin' cattle can't possibly damage the economy enough to be devastating to the point where the country is going to be picked apart by its enemies.