Asking for help in playing on a laptop

[Horatius]

Hi guys I have a question on how to do a few things on a laptop.

1. How do I zoom in? I know it isn't entirely neccessary but when I play RTW I always like to zoom in to the battles and definately always zoomed in on the campaign map. I can't do it with the mouse since there is no mouse.

2. When I play all of the unit sizes are halfed, so hastati now have 20 instead of 40 soldiers, and I would like to play with the normal unit sizes.

So does anyone have any answers on these things?

[x-dANGEr]

1. When I used to play on the laptop, I had a wireless mouse beside me..

2. Go to options, select "View Advanced Options" and change the "Unit Scale" from "Small" to "Normal".

[Ciaran]

The unit size is under graphic options, by the way.
You can also move, zoom and rotate by using the keypad, provided your laptop keyboard has one, that is. As a final resort, usb mouses are cheap by now. Unless you´re playing while on the train/airplane, that would probably be impractical, plus usb devices are battery power - leeches.

[The Spartan (Returns)]

pressing one of these buttons: / * will zoom out or in.

[x-dANGEr]

I don't think they're there on Laptop.. To be more precise, don't remember..

But there was that function key that I used to do such things..

[Tamur]

All I play on is a laptop these days (mobile MTW/RTW, wohoo!) and as far as I know there is no zoom in/zoom out.

You can drop down to the group with the keypad * key (Fn-P on my keyboard, but yours may be different). The camera goes up in the air with keypad / (Fn-0). Camera tilt is keypad ; for down (Fn-;) and keypad + (Fn-/).

A pain to use, but far better than nothing, and eventually you get used to it.