An initial survey of the battlefield is crucial to planning tactics, so let's get familiar with the camera first.
We can change our view of the battlefield by using the WASD keys, with the Q and E keys rotating our view.
Scroll the mouse wheel and we can zoom in on our forces. Double clicking a unit or its unit card, centres and
zooms the camera on its field of view.
We're in the opening stage of a battle right now – the deployment phase. At this point, we can tweak the position of our army by moving
our units to locations within the outlined deployment zone. This planning stage is a feature of every battle, unless we're surprised
by an enemy ambush on the campaign map.
We need to select a unit before we can change its position. We can either left-click on the unit itself, or on its unit card.
Now we can instantly place it by right-clicking on a new location. Once the battle starts, we'll use this same method to issue move orders.
Let's widen the line of this unit. With the unit selected, we hold down the right-mouse button and drag the mouse.
We can also alter the depth of a unit and its facing in the same way. The manoeuvre compass allows us to fine tune unit positioning that little bit more.