Upon capturing a capital

**Gornard** · March 27, 2009, 08:36 AM

I've noticed that capturing an enemy AI capital region can have one of two effects:

1, The faction is instantly eliminated and all it's possesions turn to rebels. I've seen this with some european factions such as the UP and portugal.

2, They simply carry on with whatever territory they have left. For example i've seen denmark and norway captured several times and they just carry on in iceland. I've also seen this for the mughal empire, the native american nations and the barbary states at least.

So does anyone know which nations collapse and which don't (or even why)? Also if i were to capture the capital of a collapsable nation which has territories that can possibly form emergent nations (such as england maybe in the case of scotland and ireland) will the emergent nations automatically appear if i destroy the capital or will they just become normal rebels?

**NONOPUST** · March 27, 2009, 08:38 AM

A nation will collaspe if all of their territories in their home region(ex. france-europe). If they have more territories in their home region the capital will just switch to their other city in that theatre.

**Pontifex Maximus** · March 27, 2009, 08:38 AM

Moved to Gameplay discussions.

**MyOwnSling** · March 27, 2009, 08:39 AM

If any faction loses all of its holdings in its home region, then it will be destroyed and its remaining colonial holdings will be turned over to rebels or the appropriate emergent faction.