Gameplay Hints and Tips

[Vlad Tzepes]

Some hints from our great friend Jack Lusted:

I've seen several people asking what happened to double right click zoom-to camera functionality, this has now moved to double mouse wheel click.

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Aha, thanks for that, it answers one of my bitter questions.

Naval battles - at sea when you group units they will try to maintain relative positions an also follow the lead ship around. So if you group your ships in a line they will then move in a line around the map enabling you to more easily control large number of ships.

Well... I still have to exercise this - grouping ships and moving around doesn't really do what I expect, they seem to have very strong personalities

[Ituralde]

I found the alt + rightclick move to be very useful. I had wondered how to do this before. That way I can have my ships focus fire on enemy ships without completely messing up my line, which is, as others have mentioned, already hard enough to maintain.

Interesting results happen to me, when I just start the battle, select all my ships and hit the line formation button a few times. They will align at 90 degrees to the axis, they will turn around completely and have a new head of the line. Good way to completely confuse your formation before the french hit you!