Tactical combat - there's no turn order or anything, you select a unit, use up his/her/its actions. You can pick in any order you want. Then when the next turn comes, they get their actions back (gauge refilling). Each action consumes so many movement points. Weapons depend on attack speed and movement is 2 AP per square I believe.

It's not ATB like FF or the Charge Time/Wait Time system like in FFT or Tactics Ogre.

Unit portraits (on the left column) that have moves remaining will have yellow borders. They turn gray when they have run out of moves.

Hope this helps some.

No i am sorry, i am out of work just now, i bought Elemental because i'd read the drivel that is Mafia 2 and had opted to go with the company i TRUST and have faith in.   Now i woulda thought the lesson was learned with Demigod, but clearly not.

This might sound harsh but there was a BETA test for MONTHS and i am gettin a bit tired of PAYING to be a Stardock employee now ... there is some stuff that should never have passed Q&A like the missing rewards that i have now made 2 threads about with absolutely no reply.

*MINOR SPOILER* - Summon Stone Giant MISSING - After gettin the map and returning to the market you are told you are given 2 new spells, Lightning Strike and Summon Stone Giant .... the latter is absolutely non existant .... *MINOR SPOILER*

I am sorry i absolutely LOVE Stardock, i think that more games companies need a Brad Wardell but here in the UK it doesn't exactly help that we suffer tax on all games .... so i am paying MORE for a digital version of Ele than i would for a BOXED copy of Mafia 2 for example and i do expect that to be justified therefor.

I to am a great supporter of Stardock and i to am VERY angry, Civ 5 is round the corner and for the first time ever i might start exacting my right to get my money back.  Demigod should have been a lesson learned not repeated!

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@ VR-Iron - Thanks for clearing that up. I had suspected that was what was going on there. 

@squeeky - LOL you can equip your guys with things? lordy. No wonder I had to run away and just cast at people.

@mtn - that is a good idea. I always used to do that in the Civs. will probably help me figure stuff out.

I think polishing up the UI is the first step to making this game palatable. More intuitive menus and something in the form of guidance. To totally jack Civ, maybe throw in advisers. I know that scribe guy shows up, but meh he's not all that handy.

Then I think the sandbox mode needs a hook to keep you moving along. space out the units more? add more functions for cities? I'm not quite sure. The tech goes pretty quickly unlocking various items which is nice, but for some reason I'm not obsessing over my cities as much as I did in the Civ series.  maybe they also need some visual feedback that shows you production for the cities (ala civ's resource production, 4 wheat, 2 irons, etc)