Culture points

• Every building produces culture points each day (CP column in the building tables), and those of all your villages add up.
• Celebrations give more in one go: Celebrations
• Founding or conquering a village does not use up culture points: only the total reached counts.

Culture points needed

Expansion slots

Each village has its own slots: Residence gives one at levels 10 and 20, Palace at levels 10, 15 and 20. Every village founded or conquered from there takes up one slot.

Founding a village

Send 3 settlers to a free field of the map from the Rally Point: the departure costs 750 of each resource. The new village always gets your main tribe.

Conquering a village

Each chief that survives a normal attack or a siege lowers the loyalty of the village by 20 to 30 points at random. With a Brewery the chiefs of Teutons, Mongols, Scythi lower it by half as much.

When loyalty reaches zero the village is yours, if all of these apply:

• the target village has no Residence or Palace left: while one of them stands, loyalty does not drop at all;
• you have enough culture points for one more village;
• the village the chiefs come from has a free expansion slot;
• it is not the defender's last village.

• The conquered village loses research, upgrades, oases and reinforcements; the chief that took it stays there.
• The capital can be conquered too, but its loyalty goes up to 300 instead of 100; once conquered, its resource fields above level 15 drop to level 15.

Loyalty

Loyalty recovers by 10 points per hour for each level of Residence or Palace in the village, up to the maximum. Without these buildings it does not recover.

See also: Attacks and scouting Village tribe Catapult targets