Keyboard and mouse
Building
| Key | What it does |
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| B | Open / close the build rack |
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| 1–0 | Raise the card in that slot, cheapest first — then click where it goes |
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| Q | Re-arm the last thing you raised |
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| Hover a card | What it costs, what it counters, how soon the first one musters |
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| U | Open / close Upgrades — your keep and every spawner |
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| Esc | Cancel — puts an armed card down, then closes open panels, one press each |
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| Click off a panel | Puts it away — and does not order your Builder anywhere |
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Orders
| Key | What it does |
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| Right-click | Send your Builder there |
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| Click a spawner, then right-click | Set its march road |
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| Shift + right-click | Chain another leg onto that road |
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| A | March EVERY spawner — then click where; Shift + click chains a leg |
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| S | Stop — cancels the Builder's march too, even mid-construction |
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| ✕ on a queued work or level | Calls it off; what is not yet spent comes back |
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| Drag a queued work | Moves it in the Builder's line — the top row is built first |
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Your keep
| Key | What it does |
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| Click your keep | Its panel: walls, the garrison, release |
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| K | Fortify your keep a tier |
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| G | Hold new troops in your keep (press again to send them on) |
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| R | Release everyone waiting in the keep |
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Looking
| Key | What it does |
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| Arrows / edge scroll | Pan the battlefield |
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| Right-drag / middle-drag | Grab-pan the map (a right-click that does not travel is an order) |
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| Wheel | Zoom |
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| + / − | Zoom in / out a step |
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| Z | Zoom right out to see the whole field — Z again to go back |
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| Space | Home to your keep |
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| C | Select your Builder and go to it |
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| The mark on the screen edge | Your Builder is that way — click it to go there |
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| The blades on the screen edge | The fight is that way — click to fly there |
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| Tab / Shift+Tab | Cycle your keep and structures |
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| F1–F4 | Fly to a camera flag |
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| Ctrl+F1–F4 | Plant a camera flag here |
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| Hold Alt | Show every health bar |
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| Hover a building | Whose it is, what it musters, how it is doing |
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Saying things
| Key | What it does |
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| F | Fire a firework over your keep |
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| The banner button | Open the emote wheel |
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| 1–8, wheel open | Fly that emote |
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Casting
| Key | What it does |
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| W | Cast the first spell you equipped |
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| E | Cast the second spell you equipped |
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| T | Cast the third spell you equipped |
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| Y | Cast the fourth spell you equipped |
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Touch
On a phone or a tablet, played in landscape.
Giving orders
| Gesture | What it does |
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| Tap the ground | Send your Builder there |
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| Tap a spawner | Select it — then tap to set its march road |
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| Press & hold, with something selected | Chain another leg onto that road |
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| The ⟩⟩⟩ chip | Takes EVERY spawner in hand — then tap where they march |
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| The stop chip | Halts your Builder — it is there while the Builder walks |
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| The list stud | Your Builder's work list — ✕ on a row calls it off, and what is not yet spent comes back |
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| Drag a row by its grip | In the work list: moves it in the Builder's line — the top row is built first |
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| The keep stud | Your keep: hold new troops inside, release them, raise its walls |
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| Hold in keep, on the keep stud | New troops walk into your keep and wait — the stud turns green while it stands |
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| Release all, on the keep stud | Sends everyone waiting inside out at once |
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Building
| Gesture | What it does |
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| Build | Opens the muster strip |
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| Tap a card | Arms it — then tap where it goes |
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| Press & hold bare ground | With nothing selected: the whole build menu, round that spot — tap one to raise it there |
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| Press & hold a card | What it costs and what it counters |
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| Upgrades | Levels your keep and every spawner |
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| Tap off a panel | Puts it away — that tap does NOT send your Builder |
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Casting
| Gesture | What it does |
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| Tap a spell stud | A war cry or a blessing fires at once; anything aimed arms — then tap the ground (the stud again puts it away) |
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The camera
| Gesture | What it does |
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| Drag | Pan the battlefield |
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| Pinch | Zoom in and out |
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| Double-tap | Snap back to your own keep |
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| The studs | They 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 |
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| Flick | Throws the field; it glides on and settles |
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| The mark on the screen edge | Your Builder is that way — tap it to go there |
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| The blades on the screen edge | The fight is that way — tap to fly there |
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