Where's My Capital?

[mano'world]

Hello All,

New Boy here. Got the game a few weeks ago, done a few tutorials and scenarios, just started a full April '61 Campaign as CSA and then discovered this forum. I've read a great many of the threads and discovered a great deal, thanks to you all, which means I might abandon my current game (getting stuffed in Virginia anyway) due to all the things I now know which I didn't at the beginning.

Anyway, one thing still puzzles me....

At the beginning of the April '61 CSA campaign I ignored the option of moving my capital from Montgomery to Richmond, the former city being further from the North than the latter. Due to a comment I've now read on a previous thread it seems that my capital moves to Richmond anyway.

My question is:-

1. How can I tell what my capital is? I can't see anything on the map.
2. What effect does your capital city have?
3. Why can't I just leave it in Montgomery and what are the disadvantages if I do?

I've been awed by the knowledge of the game displayed in this forum so I hope you can help with this simple query.

Ta!

[Coregonas]

As CSA your capitol starts on Georgia (Atlanta?... dont remember)

On a few months it goes for free to Richmond.

It adds ... +50% to all poduction figures.

If you try t change it, you ll lose too much morale...

[Banks6060]

Yeah that little quirk seems a little silly. I think perhaps you should be forced to pay the price of moving your capitol to Richmond in NM and $$. They had to do it historically. The deep south started the war, it would have made sense to keep the capitol there.

Richmond would still have been the most important city in the Confederacy...but I think it's a little presumptive to assume the player will want to move his capitol there.

I think the developers assumed this in crafting the feature. They just figured that with Virginia's historical entrance into the Confederacy in the late spring of 1861, most players would just move the capitol there.

[Rafiki]

Your capital is indicated by this icon:

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In addition to the other things ,mentioned, quite a few of your support units (e.g. army HQs) will most likely appear in your capital when you build them.

[mano'world]

Thanks for the quick replies.

Ofcourse in the usual way of these things, as soon as I'd posted my question, I clicked on F9 (Objectives) and there in big letters was 'Capital:Richmond (Richmond VA)'.........which sort of spells it out doesn't it?

And Rafiki, I had been wondering what that jellyfish-like symbol represented

Anyway, the way things are going, Richmond won't be my Capital much longer (surrounded, all nearby CSA armies pulverised, no reinforcements due to misunderstanding the rules.... leure: )

[Rafiki]

Hehe

(Both for the "jellyfish" and for the familiarity of fit hitting the shan )