games-pc empire earth Manuel D’Utilisation

Playing Empire Earth

The word “units” refers to all the individuals that make up your civilisation’s population:
Citizens, military personnel and weapons (collectively called military units), priests, heroes,
etc.  This is to distinguish them from your buildings.  Your units
can do many different things, which are explained below.

You can’t give orders to someone until you get their attention.  In Empire
Earth, this means selecting them first.  You can select a single unit or many
units at once (see the table below).  Portraits of the units you select appear in
the Unit/Cargo Display area in the lower-left corner of the screen.  You can
select individual units that do not belong to your civilisation to check out
their attributes.  Of course, you cannot issue orders to them.

To give one or more of your units a move command, select the unit(s) and then right-click on
the Main Map where you want the unit(s) to go.  Units will follow as direct a path to their
destination as they can, avoiding obstacles automatically.  If the destination is unreachable –
for example, if you tell a land unit to go to the middle of an ocean – the unit will attempt to
get as close as possible to the location you indicated.

One unit

Click on the unit

Multiple units

Click and drag a “lasso” around the units you want to

select. You can also hold down the Ctrl key on your

keyboard and click on additional units.

Units of the same type

Double-click on a unit.  All like units currently on the

screen are selected.

TIP: You can also zoom in and out using the bracket keys (“[” and “]”) on 
your keyboard.  Note that you can increase game performance (frame rate) by

playing zoomed in a little.