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Hello, I have a few questions on the game, I just recently purchased

- Is there a walkthrough somewhere? I have seen the 6 tutorials, but I can barely grasp the concepts on how to play the game,

- How do you deal with multiple units all together in one region? is there a zoom button I might had missed? it is very difficult to move troops when they are all in the same place

- Completely off topic: Is there a list somewhere on good Napoleonic era books? I am reading "Swords Around the throne" which I highly recommend. I am looking for good books dealing with each campaign/ coalition war.
I would like to read specially about: Italy, 3rd, 4th and 5th coalition wars

thanks

ORIGINAL: Jorge_Stanbury

Hello, I have a few questions on the game, I just recently purchased

- Is there a walkthrough somewhere? I have seen the 6 tutorials, but I can barely grasp the concepts on how to play the game,

- How do you deal with multiple units all together in one region? is there a zoom button I might had missed? it is very difficult to move troops when they are all in the same place

- Completely off topic: Is there a list somewhere on good Napoleonic era books? I am reading "Swords Around the throne" which I highly recommend. I am looking for good books dealing with each campaign/ coalition war.
I would like to read specially about: Italy, 3rd, 4th and 5th coalition wars

thanks

1- best advice is to play the Waterloo scenario, its only 3 turns long and you can use it to test movement/combat etc. Second bit of advice is to look over the posts in the War room about the game. They are designed to help a new player work out either key special rules or to understand some of what goes on 'out of sight'. You might find the posts on 'units' and stacks of particular value

2 - what do you want to do.

If you want to see what is there the game has 2 default presentation modes. One is to hide all but the top unit into a single pile, the other is to scatter them visually around the province so you can see each. The advantage to the first is that you can see the terrain etc much better so its a bit of a trade off.

You can also use the unit tabs, click on any unit and all the units in the province will appear in a tool bar at the bottom of the page. You can move through them simply by selecting a different tab.

If you want separate formations (corps) to move together then they first all need to be part of the same army (explained in the war-room threads) and then there is a special movement order so that they all move at the same speed (ie of the slowest unit). This will bring them into battle at the same time.

If you are happy for each to move on its own speed simply select (as above) and give it a move order to the destination. Your army might spread out but this is not necessarily a bad thing. It reduces congestion and if the advance guard is attacked there is a chance that the rest of the army will react to the battle (a key mechanism called 'march to the sound of the guns').

In general, I'd say play the Waterloo scenario till you are happy you are giving orders and organising your army for battle. Then try the 1806 scenario as that has a much larger play area and time scale. So its more about movement, organising a longer campaign and so on.

Thanks!