Okay, here it is.

Sound RTS is a strategy game, that means you don't directly involve yourself in the fight. You in effect have a god's eye view, so to speak. Units will automatically attack any hostile units in the same square as them, so to have your combat units respond you can do a couple of things. The first is to press control plus S to select all units except peasants, peasants aren't much use in a fight anyway. Then move to the square where the fight is and hit backspace to order them to move there.

The other thing is to set up a patrol, so they automatically move backwards and forwards. Move the units you want to patrol to the start location, lets say for example A1. Then once they arrive and with them all still selected move your focus to the opposite end of the patrol you want, say for example C1 and give them the patrol action. In this case they would go backwards and forwards between A1 and C1 until you tell them otherwise. This means you don't have to give them the order to move to the attacked square, they would get there as part of their patrol automatically. Obviously the bigger the patrol area though the longer it will take for them to get through the loop to the threatened area, and potentially the less control you have over the route depending on how many possible paths there are between the two ends.

Hope that helps some.

Think of footmen as the basic soldier, knights as the advanced ones. Knights are a lot better but cost two and a half times as much. On the other hand if you can take out the enemy before they get to the point where they have a keep and a stable then knights are a non issue.

how do you pick maps?

If you want peasants to get involved in th fight, you will also need to set their mode to ofensive (press shift plus a once or twice) and hit enter. If they're on defensive, they will attempt to flee.

if you have an earlyer version go to start menu programs sound rts and web. there you can get the newest version: b10g. if you want some maps with many resources i can send you my maps.

Computer multiplayer? How do you go there?

catapalts are rubbish!
DOn't wast money and stuff on em man.

Mages do get a magical attack too, it just isn't as much help as a knight with a sword. The healing can make a big difference though.

As to catapults, it's planned for them to be able to fire into other squares apparently. Remember SoundRTS is very much a work in progress.

I've a feeling by the time it is finished, if it ever reaches a static point where you can say it is "finished" we probably won't be able to recognise it from how it is now.

Additionally to the catapults firing into other squares apparently fixed defensive towers are planned, so the two together could play an important part. Catapults could attack without taking damage in return, and the towers naturally can't move to attack the catapults. This would effectively mean you have to still use normal units as part of your defence and not just rely on the towers, as it should be in my opinion.

connor, my maps are z1 z2 z3 z4 and z5. if you want these maps contact me or you can find these maps to the file zone of sound rts chat.

oh, I almost forgot, what is the point of first-person mode?

First person mode I believe is an obsolete feature, from when the game was in its very earliest stages.

And the "fort" thing you described is covered with the possible future introduction of walls and towers. Walls would allow ranged units to sit behind them, towers require no troops and would be an armed building. In Warcraft 2 which SoundRTS has stuck fairly close to there were three types of towers - scout towers which were what you initially built, unarmed but with good sight range, arrow towers which naturally fired arrows and could hit flying enemies, or more powerful cannon towers which can't hit flying enemies. The later two were built as an upgrade at a scout tower. There keeps being references to these towers as part of the plan on the blog if you look closely.