Best way to capture kings?

[Heidrek]

best way I've found is to encose them in a triangle of spearmen. Engage the king with one unit of your best spears, then throw a flanking unit into the engaged king to break the numbers down. While his bodyguard is getting puonded move a couple more spear units into place so you have a solid barrier around the king. Once he tries to run, he goes straihjt into one of the spear who hold him in place until he eventualyy gets captured.

[gollum]

The most reliable fleeing king buster unit in my experience is the Alan mercenary cavalry - they have excellent speed and a really good attack that makes sure that the king's hitpoints are exhausted before he escapes. Other units just as fast, like the Turcomans, vanilla horse archers and Desert Horse, have low attack values that often cannot take "all the lives" of the King before he makes to safety. Steppe cavalry are a good second best (and far more available!).

Obviously the first step is to rout him, this tends to be easy if he is of such a predisposition (coward and the like), however if he is the valliant kind he can be encircled by units of (preferably) fast spears which is far easier and more reliable - however his army needs to be beaten first. Remember to set the one that stands in his apparent direction of escape (the one he is facing) to hold formation as this makes teh unit less permeable; the other should be set to engage at will to maximise the number of spear men that attack him and allow for his hitpoints to decline quickly since they fight him from the rear.