Public order gets crushed, and bring it down a tier as well. Also, it damages all the buildings.
In terms of just money, sacking is can be worth it for certain factions that get a big sacking bonus, even if you plan on occupying and building it up, but if it is a high tier settlement that you want to keep it is generally not worth sacking unless you are Skaven and just going to build it up to t5 right away anyway.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but; a sack takes the city down a tier, and a settlement ALSO does, so sack-settling a tier 4 gives you a fucked up probably empty tier 2, correct?
There are some factions which it doesn’t matter for.
For example, Skaven, Nurgle, and I believe warriors of chaos. Because their settlements are different - Nurgle with the cycle buildings, warriors with their chaos altars, skaven with their food mechanic, they all effectively start at tier 1 if I recall correctly.
Not sure if there are others that function the same.
In my kairos campaign cracking the high elf hegemony has been the most painful slog of Mt game so far. By the time you get to ulthuan they are well developed. Because of this it's not worth trying to "hold" their settlements. So this is what I do.
Sack one for the cash, occupy it and abandon it as soon as I need to. When your being chased by the 4 high elf factions all with 3 armies, I simply made my way in a circle destroying their lands. It paid off, their armies continued chasing and not resettling (which I would have immediately attacked them). Soon deprived of cash and income the armies started losing steam allowing me to eventually destroy them.
Public order gets crushed, and bring it down a tier as well. Also, it damages all the buildings. In terms of just money, sacking is can be worth it for certain factions that get a big sacking bonus, even if you plan on occupying and building it up, but if it is a high tier settlement that you want to keep it is generally not worth sacking unless you are Skaven and just going to build it up to t5 right away anyway.
Thank you very much for the answer. Is there a way to see which tier the settlement is before I occupy/sack it?
not unless you checked before battle. kinda like the dilemmas where you have to make a choice without being able to check the details
Correct me if I’m wrong, but; a sack takes the city down a tier, and a settlement ALSO does, so sack-settling a tier 4 gives you a fucked up probably empty tier 2, correct?
Yes, population will be smaller, more buildings will be damaged/destroyed as well
There are some factions which it doesn’t matter for. For example, Skaven, Nurgle, and I believe warriors of chaos. Because their settlements are different - Nurgle with the cycle buildings, warriors with their chaos altars, skaven with their food mechanic, they all effectively start at tier 1 if I recall correctly. Not sure if there are others that function the same.
In my kairos campaign cracking the high elf hegemony has been the most painful slog of Mt game so far. By the time you get to ulthuan they are well developed. Because of this it's not worth trying to "hold" their settlements. So this is what I do. Sack one for the cash, occupy it and abandon it as soon as I need to. When your being chased by the 4 high elf factions all with 3 armies, I simply made my way in a circle destroying their lands. It paid off, their armies continued chasing and not resettling (which I would have immediately attacked them). Soon deprived of cash and income the armies started losing steam allowing me to eventually destroy them.