How to use soldier?

[SalzStange]

I build them but they just chill into my base and doing nothing. They also do not go to the barraccks? O.o

[Honorable_D]

You need to box select them and the give them at least one "move" command. It would be nice to have the option to set them to attack right away once recruited, though.

[RobDeLaMorte]

Yeah it's kind of a pain how they don't automatically start out aggressive. >>

Just so it's super clear for anyone else wanting to know; box select means click and drag so there's a big green box that covers all the guys you want to select. (They'll get little green circles under their feet when it's done right :3) After that you can walk them wherever/make them attack a single target, and depending on the buttons you press on the right they'll either wander around randomly, stand on the spot, ignore enemies or run to attack enemies.


Also you can't go into the barracks. It spawns units, that's all. The soldiers are professional and won't go back in to sleep or play poker.

[Aleccia Rosewater]

The soldiers are directed around in an overly-simplistic RTS style. Left-click-hold drag box then right-click give move/attack order.

I wish that villagers won't overlap on top of each other. It makes giving orders much harder. They should at least partially respect the laws of reality and move around things that get in their way.

This applies to the skeletons and monsters as well~

[RobDeLaMorte]

Well when there's a huge mass of monsters they do actually have no overlap. You can fit a silly large bunch into a small space, but they DO all have little collision boxes so apart from rats you'll be able to pick out everything that's cramped together. Of course clicking on that luna elf that's in the middle of 100+ zombies to attack it with lightning or something on the other hand... >>

Also everyone please make sure you left click and drag away from your troops/golems/summon monsters/companions (They're controlled the same) when you are done with them. Otherwise the game will keep them selected and you'll move them by accident. -3-