Medieval 2 Total War Problem ...

To lay a big city, it is still necessary to slaughter the city, because the population of these cities is often too large, which seriously affects public security. Basically, as soon as your troops withdraw, there will be rebellion (sometimes it will be a red face if you don't withdraw), so you still have to kill them for long-term stability. But if you occupy castles or towns, there is no need to slaughter them. You just choose to occupy or plunder them, which will be beneficial to development.

In fact, it is a problem that people love the massacre in Rome (at that time, it was to control the population, and people were most proud of raising a population the size of a village by using the territory of a big city), but the urban system of Secondary Two is much more advanced than that of Rome, and there will be no uncontrollable urban security caused by the crazy population growth in Rome, and there will be negative population growth in Secondary Two towns, so the population problem is no longer the reason for the massacre.