Pistons of War

Controls

Units

Left click: Select. Drag to box-select, Shift adds
Double click: All of that type on screen
Right click: Move, attack, harvest oil or unload at your refinery
Shift + right click: Queue orders: waypoints, attacks, repairs or oil runs, done in turn
F + click: Attack-move. Hold Shift to queue more
B: Stop
G: Deploy, dig in or pack up
U: Auto Scout: Scouts explore the map on their own
Y C T N: Stance: Aggressive, Defensive, Stand Ground, No Attack
Ctrl 1-9: Save a group. 1-9 recalls, twice jumps to it. Shift 1-9 adds to it

Base and camera

Tab: With Engineers selected: switch between Economy and Military buildings in the command panel (bottom left)
Build: Select one or more Engineers, pick a building, then click the map. R turns it. The selected Engineers walk over and build it. Shift places more, and they build them in turn. Right click cancels
Engineers: Right click your building site to help build it, or a damaged building to repair it. More Engineers build faster
F: With a charged superweapon selected: fire it, then click the target
Train: Select your HQ, a barracks, factory or oil refinery, then pick units in the command panel. Shift+click queues 5
Tab: With no Engineers selected: select your next HQ, barracks, factory, airfield or oil refinery
Rally: Select a barracks, factory or oil refinery, right click the map
Delete (fn+Backspace on Mac): Delete the selection: units are lost, buildings sell for half (less damage), sites refund the unbuilt part
Camera: WASD, arrows, screen edge or Shift + middle drag. Wheel zooms. Click the radar to jump
Q E Z X: Turn and tilt the camera. Middle drag (or Option + drag) does both. Home resets the view
H P Esc: Home, pause, cancel or deselect
Space: Look at the latest attack on you (the minimap flashes red there)
M: Mute or unmute sound (volume, music and the soundtrack are on the speaker button)
I: Select your spare Engineers (no orders) and look at the next one. Same as the minimap's bottom right button
V: Always show health bars, or only on selected, hovered and damaged units and buildings
F4: Show or hide the score above the minimap. Hover it for military, economy, technology and society
`: Show or hide the performance readout (frame rate, draw calls)

Oil is everything. Harvesters haul it from the black pools to your oil refinery. If your buildings use more power than your power plants make, production slows and defences go quiet. Hold an Aether vent (violet on the radar) to collect Aether for heroes, specials and superweapons. Destroy every enemy building to win.

Best on a computer

Skirmish

Tutorial

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Multiplayer

Settings

Mac app

Controls

Units

Base and camera