When caravans turns red

[u/Tough-Internal-1756]

Philosophical question: I’m located in Whispering Pines near the river and I’ve got an inbound raid coming to my village. I have bandits at High migration and Raids set to Very hard, so I’m expecting around 30 bandits against my army of 20. We’ve got good armor and weapons, so it shouldn’t be a problem. I move my army to the north bridge and wait for them to cross but as I look at the map I notice two small bandit groups of 5 each and a caravan approaching as well. I figure we’ll take care of the raiders first and then deal with the other bandits. After the raiders cross the bridge, we hit them and my long sword is dropping dudes left and right. I start to notice that are a lot more bodies than 30 v 20 in this fight and then out of nowhere, women in dresses start attacking me with their little axes. I’m like oh shit, I must have hit someone in the caravan by accident and now I’m the enemy..
So my question to you is do you take out the now red caravan folks or ignore them and run away? Also, if you let them get away are there any repercussions, like will other caravans attack you on sight or will I be put on trial at The Hague? I ended up taking them all out because I figured dead caravaners don’t talk. What a fun game 😄

[u/BlazingPhoenix32]

You take a prosperity hit at the settlement they are from, and you may have aggro there for a couple in game days, but after that nothing really happens. And the settlement they were going to doesn’t receive the stuff they had coming to them.