Game Mechanics Tips and Tricks

[Gandalf Parker]

The center button scroll is actually a pretty standard Windows thing. It will also work on web pages and viewing large pictures on web or in a paint program.

Its like people asking what the button is for making a screenshot and being told to use the "Print Screen" button on their keyboard, then open any paint program and hit "edit, paste"

Hitting the Insert or Delete button will jump the map to full view which is very nady later in the game. Home button centers on your capital. Page up and Page down to scroll in and out.

Selecting a unit is LeftClick. Selecting all commanders in a province is "a". Selecting a range (from here to here) is Left-Click then Shift-LeftClick. Adding or removing indivuals is Control-LeftClick. Doing commands while many units are selected will try to do that command with everyone (moves, patrol, research). Its also very handy to have all of the mages or sages in your province selected then tell one to cast a spell or create an item. It will go thru each one one-at-a-time and let you choose which spell or item for each one.

And lets not forget the Shift-M which will let you select a spell and have the mages cast it over and over each turn. Great for telling a bunch of mages to ressurect dead or summon vine-men every turn until you tell them to quit or they run out of gems.

Hmmmm lets see.....
People like to find out about some of the buttons in combat. Apparently "w" turns off the pretty backgrounds. PageUp and PageDown has nice effects for camera angle. Spacebar freezes things. RightClicking a unit in battle lets you examine stats.