Quick How To Play

Main Objective

• Build units to attack the enemy Capital. See Men of the Line.

Secondary Objectives

• Push the line in the top lane to gain more gold and build more units. See The Middle Line and Gold, Land, and Banks.
• Push the line in the bottom lane to gain more land and build better units and upgrades. See Towns.
• A friendly unit in its fort footprint has 20% cover against attackers outside that footprint. Enemies move at half speed through the colored fort band. See The Map and Damage.

Button Controls

• Click Banks to buy them. See Gold, Land, and Banks.
• Swipe Unit Buttons up/down to purchase for the top/bottom lane. See Units.
• Swipe Unit Buttons left/right to change the unit type
• Click a Town you control to enable/disable researching in that town. See Towns.

Map Controls

• Click an empty part of lane, pinch zoom in, or mouse wheel up to zoom into that lane. See The Map.
• Swipe up/down to switch lanes when zoomed
• Swipe left/right on an empty part of the lane to traverse the lane
• Click the green field, pinch zoom out, or mouse wheel down to return to regular view

Unit Controls

• Actions done to one unit apply to all matching units in a line. See Lines and Giving Orders.
• Click a unit to Halt. Click a Halted unit to Advance
• Swipe up or down to move the line one row. Switching onto a matching unit in line Reforms
• Swipe forward to Charge
• Swipe back to Fall Back
• Long press or right-click a single unit to issue orders to only that unit (ignore lines)
• Advancing Troops that walk into Perfect Line with a Halted or Reforming Troop next door take that order alone. See Orders.

What each order does is on Orders.