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Castle Battle · The guide

Controls

Every key, click and gesture a battle answers to — 39 on the keyboard and mouse, 24 by touch. It is the same sheet the ? button opens in a battle, printed from the same table.

Keyboard and mouse

Building

KeyWhat it does
BOpen / close the build rack
1–0Raise the card in that slot, cheapest first — then click where it goes
QRe-arm the last thing you raised
Hover a cardWhat it costs, what it counters, how soon the first one musters
UOpen / close Upgrades — your keep and every spawner
EscCancel — puts an armed card down, then closes open panels, one press each
Click off a panelPuts it away — and does not order your Builder anywhere

Orders

KeyWhat it does
Right-clickSend your Builder there
Click a spawner, then right-clickSet its march road
Shift + right-clickChain another leg onto that road
AMarch EVERY spawner — then click where; Shift + click chains a leg
SStop — cancels the Builder's march too, even mid-construction
✕ on a queued work or levelCalls it off; what is not yet spent comes back
Drag a queued workMoves it in the Builder's line — the top row is built first

Your keep

KeyWhat it does
Click your keepIts panel: walls, the garrison, release
KFortify your keep a tier
GHold new troops in your keep (press again to send them on)
RRelease everyone waiting in the keep

Looking

KeyWhat it does
Arrows / edge scrollPan the battlefield
Right-drag / middle-dragGrab-pan the map (a right-click that does not travel is an order)
WheelZoom
+ / −Zoom in / out a step
ZZoom right out to see the whole field — Z again to go back
SpaceHome to your keep
CSelect your Builder and go to it
The mark on the screen edgeYour Builder is that way — click it to go there
The blades on the screen edgeThe fight is that way — click to fly there
Tab / Shift+TabCycle your keep and structures
F1–F4Fly to a camera flag
Ctrl+F1–F4Plant a camera flag here
Hold AltShow every health bar
Hover a buildingWhose it is, what it musters, how it is doing

Saying things

KeyWhat it does
FFire a firework over your keep
The banner buttonOpen the emote wheel
1–8, wheel openFly that emote

Casting

KeyWhat it does
WCast the first spell you equipped
ECast the second spell you equipped
TCast the third spell you equipped
YCast the fourth spell you equipped

Touch

On a phone or a tablet, played in landscape.

Giving orders

GestureWhat it does
Tap the groundSend your Builder there
Tap a spawnerSelect it — then tap to set its march road
Press & hold, with something selectedChain another leg onto that road
The ⟩⟩⟩ chipTakes EVERY spawner in hand — then tap where they march
The stop chipHalts your Builder — it is there while the Builder walks
The list studYour Builder's work list — ✕ on a row calls it off, and what is not yet spent comes back
Drag a row by its gripIn the work list: moves it in the Builder's line — the top row is built first
The keep studYour keep: hold new troops inside, release them, raise its walls
Hold in keep, on the keep studNew troops walk into your keep and wait — the stud turns green while it stands
Release all, on the keep studSends everyone waiting inside out at once

Building

GestureWhat it does
BuildOpens the muster strip
Tap a cardArms it — then tap where it goes
Press & hold bare groundWith nothing selected: the whole build menu, round that spot — tap one to raise it there
Press & hold a cardWhat it costs and what it counters
UpgradesLevels your keep and every spawner
Tap off a panelPuts it away — that tap does NOT send your Builder

Casting

GestureWhat it does
Tap a spell studA war cry or a blessing fires at once; anything aimed arms — then tap the ground (the stud again puts it away)

The camera

GestureWhat it does
DragPan the battlefield
PinchZoom in and out
Double-tapSnap back to your own keep
The studsThey stand on the RIGHT — the keep, the work list and the map, under the thumb you hold the phone with. Settings ▸ Left-handed moves them across
FlickThrows the field; it glides on and settles
The mark on the screen edgeYour Builder is that way — tap it to go there
The blades on the screen edgeThe fight is that way — tap to fly there

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