Touch Controls

Introduction

Touch controls can be used to move the camera, give orders to units on the battlefield, control armies on the campaign map, navigate through menus and much more using the on-screen keyboard activated via the option in the controls menu.

Battle UI

Drag

Move fingertip over surface without losing contact:

On battlefield landscape or enemy units – moves the camera. Grabs the touched piece of terrain and moves it to a new location.

On sky or outfield – rotates the camera.

On unselected friendly unit or group – selects the unit/group and starts a move as below.

On a friendly selection – issues a sequence of move orders to the selection along the track drawn out. If the swipe intersects an enemy unit an attack order is given. If a second finger is added to the gesture it can add a pinch/spread (resize) or rotate order to the move.

Tap

Briefly touch surface with fingertip:

If the camera is moving due to a flick, a tap stops it.

On a friendly unselected unit - adds that unit to the current selection.

On a friendly selected unit - removes that unit or removes it from the current selection.

On a UI button - activates it.

On the terrain or sky - cancels the current selection.

Double Tap

Rapidly touch surface twice with fingertip:

On a friendly unit/unit card - moves the camera to that unit.

On the ground (advanced) – moves camera to that location.

Press

Touch surface for extended period of time:

If the camera is moving due to a flick, it stops it. Otherwise, it is similar to ‘Tap’.

Pinch

Touch surface with two fingers and bring them closer together:

Zooms the camera out.

Spread

Touch surface with two fingers and move them apart:

Zooms the camera in.

Rotate

Touch surface with two fingers and move them in a clockwise or counterclockwise direction:

Rotate camera – rotates the camera around the ground at the centre point between your fingers.

Three Point Swipe

Press 3 fingertips in parallel over surface, and slide fingertips quickly from right to left without losing contact:

Three finger swipe from right to left – ‘Escape’ button shortcut.

Advanced Controls

Splay

Touch surface with 3 fingers and move them apart:

When a group is selected - 3 fingers ungroups the units, like hitting the ‘G’ key.

Squeeze

Touch surface with 3 fingers and bring them closer together:

When multiple units are selected – 3 fingers groups them, like hitting the ‘G’ key.

Press & Drag

Press surface with one finger and move second finger over surface without losing contact:

When units are selected – this gesture shortcut drags out the selection exactly as a mouse drag out. Typically the press will be with the left thumb on the edge of the screen.

While holding bottom left of screen and drag from a second point – creates a drag-selection box to select multiple units on the battlefield.

While holding top left of screen – enters tooltip mode, allows viewing of tooltips for UI elements without selecting anything.

Campaign

Drag

Move fingertip over surface without losing contact:

On campaign map, enemy units or settlements – moves the camera. Grabs the touched piece of terrain and moves it to a new location.

On unselected friendly character – selects the character and starts a move.

On a friendly selection – moves the character to end point of the drag on release, performing a held-down right-click as the drag is moved around. If the swipe ends on another character or unit a right-click order is given. Adding other fingers cancels the order sequence.

Two Finger Drag

Move two fingertips over surface without losing contact:

Anywhere - rotates the camera. Flicking adds momentum horizontally, but not vertically.

Press

Touch surface for extended period of time:

Anywhere - acts as a left-click.