Raise armies, storm cities, and be the first to hold 120 of them.
| Left click / drag | Select units · box-select · click a city (a frame with no units selects your cities) |
| Shift + click / drag | Add units or cities to the selection |
| Unit icons in the panel | Click: select only that unit (or type) · Ctrl + click: remove it from the selection · Shift + click: mark it; when you release Shift, the marked units become the selection |
| Double click | On a unit: all your units of that type on screen · on your city: all your cities on screen |
| Right click | Move · attack unit or city · set rally (cities selected: on land for new units, which attack-move there; on water for new ships of coastal cities) |
| Alt + right click | Cities selected: clear their rally points (both) |
| Hold A + right click | Units selected: attack-move (fight anything on the way; works on the minimap too) |
| Shift + right click | Units selected: queue the move or attack after their current orders; they carry them out one after another. Without Shift, an order replaces the queue |
| S | Units selected: stop |
| H | Units selected: hold position (fight only what is within reach; any new order ends it) |
| Delete | Units selected: disband (they lose HP until they die; cities can't be disbanded) |
| C | One land unit selected: make it a Hero for honor (needs the tradition Cult of Heroes), like the Make Hero button |
| Q / W / E / R / B | Build infantry / archers / cavalry / knight / transport in every selected city (ships only in coastal cities, marked with an anchor) |
| Right click your transport | Units selected: they go on board. The transport must be near a coast; it sails to their shore and they gather there (8 places, only the units that fit go). Your transports light up while units are selected. Right-click more transports with the same selection to share it out; select the units again to send them to another transport instead |
| Ctrl + B · Shift + B | Units selected: remove the ships from the selection · keep only the ships |
| Ctrl + F · Shift + F | Units selected: remove the full transports from the selection · keep only the full transports |
| U | Transports selected: unload. Click any land or city: the transport sails to the nearest coast, lands everyone and they march there (they attack an enemy city). Right click or Esc cancels. Quicker: right-click land or an enemy city with the loaded transports selected |
| A / S / D / F / G | Cities selected: build Wall / Tower / Castle / Farm / Barracks in every selected city. A again: Wall II |
| Shift + G | Cities selected: build Barracks paid with honor instead of gold (needs the tradition Brotherhood of Arms) |
| Shift + Q / W / E / R / B | Cities selected: build that unit paid with honor, 2 times its gold cost (needs the tier II tradition Eternal Glory) |
| Ctrl + 1–9, then 1–9 | Save / recall control group (press twice to jump) |
| Hold Alt | Show the attack radius of every city · Alt + drag selects only your cities, not units |
| Space · Shift + Space | Center on selection · jump to your city captured last (a captured city of yours also pings red on the minimap) |
| Drag the minimap's top-right corner | Resize the minimap (kept for your next games) · double click the corner: default size |
| F2 | Select all your units |
| Arrows · screen edge · middle drag | Scroll the map |
| Mouse wheel | Zoom |
| T | Technologies: Sea (Seafaring: ships, boarding and landing) and Rebellion (what you can do as a liberator) |
| O · click the silver star | Honor: traditions you learn with the honor your kills earn, such as Heroes |
| Tab | Players · F1 this help · Esc deselect |
Capture a city by bringing its HP to zero. Units walk only on land and find their own way around seas; to reach islands such as Britain or Sicily, carry them over in transports. Ships sail only on the sea and are built in coastal cities; they take units on board and land them only on beaches, the sandy stretches of coast (the rest is cliffs). Units regenerate HP after a few seconds out of combat.