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If you wish to move your units by clicking on the terrain itself, your units will face the direction you are facing when you give the order. In general, this is not a terrible thing, as units will sense when enemies approach and turn themselves around to attack. This issue, however, can be completely resolved by giving your units orders on the minimap. If you zoom in sufficiently, you will find it quite easy to position your units on it. Further, you will often fight on hilly terrain, which makes it quite difficult to organize when you click on the terrain. Using the minimap takes care of this problem, although you may sometimes inadvertently line up your units behind the crest of a ridge. If you use the minimap together with control groups to arrange your creatures before a fight, you will find it a snap to organize your efforts. Your creatures will all align themselves according to your camera view, making it very easy to line up your groups beside you. By contrast, if you try to arrange your units by clicking on the terrain, you will have to do a lot of running around to click from the right vantage points. When one of your structures is under attack, you can gauge the seriousness of the attack by dragging a box around the structure on the minimap. Whatever units you have in the area, whether or not they are guardianed to the manalith, will appear in the unit selection pane on the left-hand side of your screen. If you see the health of your units dropping rapidly, it's time to teleport back and assist. If, on the other hand, you notice no drastic changes, it is safe to continue about your business. Teleporting is one of the keys to excelling at this game. When you teleport, all creatures within a few meters of you will teleport as well, with no extra cost of mana. Therefore, if you find the need to teleport, take a few extra seconds to gather your creatures before you cast the spell. One easy way to group all the units near you is to drag a box around your icon on the minimap. (Although you can assign only 12 units to a control group, you can box-select any number.) If you need to teleport quickly, drag such a box and right-click on yourself, which causes all selected creatures to guard you. Give them a moment to gather; then cast the teleport spell. When you teleport, use the minimap to select a target. You may teleport to any visible manalith, shrine, or altar, which includes small arrow icons on the extreme edges of the minimap. Any friendly structure that is out of the zoomed-out range of the minimap will be indicated with an arrow, and these can be selected as teleport spell targets. Thus, to move all the way across a large map, it is not necessary to teleport in small jumps to structures that are visible in the interior of the map.
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