Knights & Paladins

The game goes into a second phase when you buy the Knight title. From that moment you can build a castle, build barracks and a theatre.

In your barracks you can train troops with which you can attack other settlements and demand allegiance.

In a theatre you can organise events. These give a cultural score and this can also get you the allegiance of nearby settlements.

A Paladin title is necessary to be able to attack a castle. You don't have to visit the castle in real life, but you need to be within a distance of about 0.5 km.

It's a bit unclear how attack works exactly. When you attack you see a number of attack points of your army and when you "spy defenses" you can see the defense points of the defender. It seems that when you have more points you have a good chance of winning, but a random factor is still involved somewhere.