The capital is the main village of your avatar. Many important game mechanics are linked to it, such as expansion, culture points and Kingdom influence.
When you start a new game world, your first village is always your capital.
The capital has several unique advantages.
Resource fields in the capital can be upgraded without a level limit, at least in theory.
Protection: A capital cannot be conquered.
Special buildings: Only in the capital you can build the Stonemason and the Brewery (Teutons only)
Culture points: If the capital is a city, it provides +500 culture points per day.
Additional bonuses for the capital can be unlocked through fealty bonuses.
As soon as your avatar owns more than one village, you can change your capital.
To proclaim a new capital, the chosen village must have a Palace. Your avatar can only have one Palace at a time, so if another Palace already exists, it must be demolished first.
When a new capital is proclaimed, the old capital immediately loses its capital status. Its resource fields are no longer treated as capital fields and fall back to the normal maximum level, which is level 10, or level 12 if the village is a city. From that point on, all capital-specific advantages apply only to the new capital.
You can proclaim a village as your capital directly in the Palace.
For Governors and Dukes, robber hideouts appear near the capital village.
If the capital is changed before hideouts appear, they will spawn near the new capital.
After a relocation, hideouts are removed and later reappear near the new village position.
If a capital village is destroyed, hideouts may appear once at the old location.
After they are defeated, future hideouts will appear near the new capital.
Capital villages can be shown on the world map with a special icon. This option can be enabled or disabled in the map settings.
After a relocation, as soon as the king has at least one point of influence on the capital village, the area of influence expands around the capital’s position on the map.
If a capital village is located within the borders of a Kingdom, it will pay tributes to that Kingdom.
When a player becomes inactive, the capital village automatically switches to the Kingdom with the highest influence in that area.
A Kingdom Union is only possible if:
The capital villages of both kings have connected territories.
Territories touching only at a corner do not count.
