Parson no onger bound to stanley?

[ishnar]

We don't know what happened at Faq and there are more than a few clues that Stanley and his dwagons took it out. Remember there was only a rport of a flight of them being seen. Nothing more.
I would point out that if Stanley DID take out Faq, he coudl have split up his forces and hit all three cities at once (and taken out Banhammerz). But it's likely that most anyone else could do that as well.

Well, all speculation about who took Faq aside, in Standard wargames, if a capital falls, the capital just moves automatically to the next city. I don't see any reason why Erf would follow a different model.