I think the best place for a European capital is around the Northern Italy-Yugoslavia area.

depends where your troops are fighting..

not to far from the front lines.. help keeps moral high after you take new territory..

depends.. on the war situation..

I would keep my capital around my Core provinces at all times would I be you. That is what matters, in regards to newly conquered provinces, it should be the least of your worries, just take someone's capital and the problem will go away.

Don't move it to the front, if an in invasion goes badly you lose more than just a province, resources will go with it too.

gosh no..
if that falls..


no just some people tend to carry it with them.. a good few provinces from the front for moral..

I personal dont like this.. but many do..

it increases moral in the new provinces..

You should try to keep your capital towards the front, but need forts behind you to keep morale up in the other regions you took.

moving the capital away from core provinces.. is bad for res production..

moral will fall slightly there..
and core provinces are important..

having the capital on the front line is one bad idea..
having forts with it, is of no use Im afraid..

I prefer to put my capital in the rough middle of my empire. Putting it towards the front is too risky, and most of the time keeping it in my core provinces will lower the morale in my outer provinces too much.

Keep it in the core provinces.

Berlin, a perfect place for the German Empire.

Zagreb, perhaps?

Warsaw of course! It's in the middle of Europe.

Keep it right where it is. Unless you have max forts on all your core resources then the morale deduction will outweigh any benefits of keeping newly captured provinces.

Forts are expensive, especially for entire fronts. Moving your capital is essential for larger empires.

Generally true, especially on the smaller 22-player European map. Trans-Atlantic invasions present challenges, however, because the distances from North America make stabilizing morale and preventing rebellions harder. I always stockpile additional metal for building fortresses whenever I am invading North America from Europe. Because most of the countries are on the eastern side of the Atlantic, it usually makes more sense to pick a European country rather than a North American one -- and I say that as someone who has won twice playing the Northern United States.


That certainly can be true, especially on the 100-player world map. I've managed to work around the distance-morale stabilization problem on the 50-player Pacific map by judicious use of fortresses and well-timed morale boosts from the capture of enemy capitals. Depending on where you start on the 100-player map, moving your capital may be the only way to stabilize the morale of newly captured provinces, but there is a serious price to be paid in lost resource production in your core provinces. As a fanatical resource-production maximizer, that drives me crazy. The distance-morale formula -- which was originally created for the 22-player map -- really needs to be adjusted for the larger maps. Stabilization of morale should be challenging, but never impossible.