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The map window is the area that most of the action will take place.
You will firstly see a map of the scenario you are playing.
 At
the beginning of the game this will be populated by all the lords
available for recruitment. These lords are represented by their
shield. When the shield is not know or has not been downloaded then
they will have the default ?? shield.
These lords will all be marked as neutral. All kings have a
player colour that will be displayed behind any counter marked as
belonging to them. By default, your colour is yellow.
Your opponents kings will be placed in the top left of the map,
and your king will be placed in your starting location.
- Selecting a counter -
 Left
clicking on a counter will make it the selected counter. When this
counter is selected you can perform multiple options on it depending
on its type.
You may select multiple counters by SHIFT clicking on each
counter in turn. Or your may select multiple counters by dragging a
selection rectangle on the map which will select all counters that
fall in that area.
 You
may have to be careful with selecting the last counter in your
selection as to make sure it has been actioned correctly.
Actions that can be performed on one counter may then be
performed on multiple. NOTE: Where counter types differ you will
only be presented with the options that are common to those
counters.
- Counter Actions -
 If
you right click on a lord counter you will be presented with a
list of options available to this lord.
Kings
The first few options will be the Kings in play for this game,
they allow you to quickly assign the lord to a king.
Delete...
The delete option will remove this counter from the game. If you
delete a lord you must you the Place Lord Here option to
return them to the map. Other deleted items are lost.
Add Target
Adding a target to a lord allows you to show where you are
intending this lord to move to, or where you expect your opponent to
move it to.
A target graphics
is places on the map and joined to the counter by a dashed line of
the colour of the counters king. You may drag the counter or the
lord around the map.
If you have more that one counter selected when you add target
then all counters will share the same target, allowing you to move
one target around for multiple counters.
 Delete
Target
If a counter has a target, the delete target option will be
available.
If multiple counters share the same target, then deleting the
target on the counter only removes its link to the target.
If the target has a chain of targets then the whole chain will be
deleted.
Insert Target ( on targets )
You may select another target and place a target before it. This
allows you to chain targets together.
Unlink Target ( on targets )
Unlinking a target will remove the target and automatically
assign the next target in the list as being the next target.
 Old
Marking a counter as old allows you to indicate that you may not
know the correct information about that counter. Either it has been
many days since you received the information placing that lord at
that location, or you don't actually know where the are.
 Locked
When a counter is marked as locked, the locked indicator will
display against the counter whenever it is selected. A locked
counter cannot be moved around the map. This is particularly useful
when you have bunched lords at a location and you wish to
spread them out for easy viewing.
Dead
 If
one of your lords dies, they will be left in the location where they
died but their shield will be replaced with a skull. You may use
this option to mark your opponents lords as dead.
Select
When Midnight/MU is being played through Campaign Manager you may
select the counter on the map, and this will change to the view of
that counter in the main game window.
Properties
Selecting the properties allows to to set information about the
counter.
- Map Actions -
 Right
clicking on the map without a counter selected allows you to perform
actions to the map.
Add Army
Adding an army will place an army counter on the map. You may
wish to do this when you can see an opponents army in the distance
but have been unable to gather information about them, or for
recording information about your opponents garrisons. NOTE: Your own
armies will be placed on the map on your next game turn, so you do
not need to place them on the map yourself.
   
Add Pin
Adding a pin to the map allows your to record comments about a
particular location. You may wish to use this for location of
fairies or even just form comments about a particular area of the
map. You may assign a graphic type to the pin in order for it to
represent different things. Pin, Fairy, Horses, Wolves. You may also
uses the short cut add option for these items.
Add Caravan
Caravans work exactly the same as army counters.
Place Lord Here
Placing a lord is a quick way of moving a lord counter to a
particular location.
 Say
you gather information from a seek at a tower, you can move directly
to the location mentioned and add the lord to the map. The lord is
then move to the given location.
You select a lord off the Selection Lord dialog which list all
lords with their shields. NOTE: Placing a deleted lord back on
the map will undelete them.
Selecting and area will highlight all locations with the same
domain name. Selecting the same area again will unselect it.
Main Menu Options
Find Lord
Find lord brings up the lord selector dialog and the centres the
map on the lord flashing his counter at the same time. Find Place
 The
find place dialog allows you to select an area on the map, just like
select area or type in
partial information to find a particular place. Type a phrase into
the search text box and then click he > button, this will list all
matches. Select the match you want from the list and then click
show. The area will be hilighted and centred in the map view.
Lord Filter
The lord filter allows you to toggle watch information is show on
the map view. You can toggle on/off the displaying of any 'players'
lords and information. You may select a criteria for the courage and
strength.
View Grid
View grid turns the grid on the main map window.
View Races
View races shows the lords as their race rather than as their
shield.
Snap to Grid
Snap to grid aligns any moved counter to the map grid.
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