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hey guys spirit of the law here just a
quick one today that I hope is practical
and useful for you guys we're going to
take a look at the different ways you
can select and deselect your units with
authority you have more control than I
think some people realize and it's just
a matter of knowing a few tricks
first of all double-clicking is the one
everybody knows how to do and that just
selects all the units of the same type
on the screen up to a maximum of 40 in
the original CD version or 60 in the HD
version if you have more than that on
the screen it turns out that the unit's
selected aren't completely random you'll
notice you double-click different units
and it's always the same ones being
reflected oddly enough it's actually
done by the units age and select the
oldest veteran units first the order of
the pictures on the bottom also isn't
random and goes from oldest to youngest
when you double click on the other hand
if you drag select them instead it's
sorted by the unit's position from north
to south the only exceptions the double
clicking stuff is have scars from
castles and barracks for whatever reason
they're considered to different units
now let's say you're below your 60 unit
maximum though and want to add another
type to that easily done here I have
some Knights and I want to also select a
few light cavalry to join the group and
give them some extra line of sight to
add new individual units I can hold ctrl
or shift and click them one at a time or
if I'm holding either of those down I
can drag to select however many I want
if I want to select all of the light
cavalry on the screen at once I could
also hold down ctrl or shift and double
click a single unit of the new type that
I want to add so that's really the
beginner stuff adding units is just a
matter of using the ctrl key and
dragging or double-clicking the
lesser-known tricks are when your d
selecting units you don't want from a
group let's say from this whole mix I
want to select just the Knights and
deselect everything else one way would
be to find a knight on the screen and
double click em but sometimes the
Knights won't all be on the same screen
so another way to select only the
Knights from the mixed group is to hold
shift and then click a night icon from
the bottom notice everything else is too
selected normally I would double-click
the night instead of using this
particular trick but it doesn't hurt to
know now a more common issue I run into
is let's say I want to patrol with these
units right now toward an enemy I
actually lose the option to Patrol
even with a hotkey if I have any seed
units selected so I want to deselect the
siege from this list in a quick and easy
way I could build the group back up from
scratch by double-clicking the light
cavalry then control and trying to
properly click a knight to get all of
those and then the archers but nobody's
got time for that and there's a better
way the trick is to hold down ctrl +
shift and just click on the icons of
whatever unit type you don't want notice
that once the siege is gone from the
list I can now use patrol again you can
also run into similar problems when you
have a villager selected even one
villager in a group takes away the
attack ground function for siege and
patrol and attack move from your other
unit if you notice that's happening just
hold Shift + ctrl and then click the
villages on the list easy
you can also deselect just one unit at a
time by holding ctrl that can be useful
if there's particular damaged units that
you want to leave behind the final and
kind of related trick is when you're
trying to unger if in certain units
let's say I just want to let out only
the samurai here and not the other units
I could click them one by one
but for those of us that aren't being
paid by the hour just hold down shift
and all of the same unit type come out
together alternately maybe I want to
release everything except for a
particular unit like a king for example
and in that case I can hold ctrl and
click on the king everything else gets
sent out and he stays in what if though
it's not a king but a group of Trevor
Shay's that I don't want to get out in
that case I can hold ctrl and shift and
click the trebuchet and then just that
one unit type stays in in general when
I'm on garrison units though I tend to
stick to just using shift and clicking
the units I want to send out because I
find it a bit counterintuitive to click
the unit that I want staying in but
again now you know in fact as a general
rule I'd say don't force it when it
comes to this kind of stuff double
clicking and using unit groups is good
enough for at least 99% of it
time with this group of units for
instance I'd probably make the night and
light cavalry group one our blessed
group two and auditors group three and
then I just click the number whenever I
need them a bit more knowledge never
hurts though and hopefully you picked up
any tricks in this video thanks for
watching guys and I'll see you next time