Touch
Playing on a tablet: what a finger does.
Battles are played on a tablet, laptop or desktop, held sideways; phones can read the wiki, the maps and the leaderboard. The first finger on the game switches to touch mode: bigger buttons, and a long press on a button shows its tip.
| Two fingers | Pan and zoom. They never give an order; a second finger cancels a stroke under way. |
|---|---|
| Tap a unit (2×: its role on screen) / a banner / your building | Select. |
| Drag with no units in hand | Draw a belt (from a banner: move, pull or stretch that belt). |
| Hold still, then drag | Box select. |
| With units in hand: tap the ground / drag / double tap | Move! / a path or a front / Disband! |
| With units in hand: tap a banner / an enemy / an enemy building | To the front! / focus / Tear it down! |
| Build bar, then drag the ghost | ✓ lays it (Keep holds another in hand), ✕ drops it. |
| Your cannon: Fire, then drag the aim | Fire! shoots (in range only), ✕ stops aiming. |
| Minimap: tap or drag / hold | Look there / send the units in hand there. |
| A group’s button: tap / double tap / hold | Take the control group back in hand / and look there / keep the hand in it (+ keeps it in a new one; with Add on, a tap adds the group). |
Every key has a button: the hand panel, the command and build bars, the building panel (Rally, Pause, Demolish) and Charts.