Any way to see visible areas on campaign map?

[econ21]

On the campaign map, your armies and cities have a certain area around them in which they can spot enemy armies etc. Is there anyway to reveal this visible radius, so as to stop enemies sneaking into your territory unawares?
Thanks for any advice,
Simon

[Sjakihata]

two ways basically

1) set up a network of spies and watchtowers
2) use the cheat codes

[econ21]

Yes, I am using spies for this, but how do you know what your spies can see? I am wondering how far apart they should be spaced from each other.

[Kraellin]

you shld be able to see a difference in the shading of the campaign map. how far your units and armies can see is shown in a lighter shade than the rest of the map. if you cant, then you may need to adjust some of your video settings or even drivers for your video card, or perhaps just adjust the gamma setting on your monitor.

K.

[econ21]

Thanks, Kraellin - now I know what I should look for, I'll try again. I'm playing on a (pretty good) laptop and while RTW runs fine, it looks pretty ugly on the battle map (very washed out colours, fuzzy troops etc) unless you zoom in - strangely MTW and especially STW battles looked much better zoomed out. The campaign map's fine though so maybe I'll be able to see the visible areas.

[Sjakihata]

The dark is unexplored/unknow land, which you cannot see. It works like any other RTS games, Fog of War, shroud etc.

Spies has a much bigger line of sight than armies etc, you can get traits/retinues that can help increase the line of sight.