The're several Items and Abilities that have a "out of combat usage" description...but...how do i use them out of combat?

Abilities such as? And in which game?

In AOW3, the only ones I know of are the ones that work like the builder. You select the unit, click the icon that appears underneath that unit's image in the party selection screen at the top of the screen, and go from there. There are hardly any units that have active use abilities on the world map though. Mostly I recall the Frostling Ice Queen.

In AoW1, you bring up a unit's properties-window and double-click one of the bolded abilities at the top, like Healing or Spellcasting.

Don't recall how it worked in AoW2 or Shadow Magic, I'm afraid.

Oo sorry...youre right,my question isn't really clear^^...i allways forget that the subforum is for all AOW's...

I am talking about AWO3 and i am talking about Items and Abilities that can heal...most of them have a description like...during combat it will heal 20 for one target and out of combat it will....but i couldn't find a way to use them...there's no button at the party selection and at the Info-window i can't click/double-click anything.

Maybe i missed something or the effect is auto-used at the beginning of the strategic turn...or....

PS:I would really love a controlled out of combat-heal like AOW1.

(Huh? Forum just ate my post? Ugh.)

Yeah, it is as you say. Healing abilities are used automatically at the end of your turn. The way it works, according to the official forum: first it heals the leftmost unit in your lineup. If that unit was only slightly injured and didn't require the full heal, the leftover points are used to heal the next eligible unit, and so on.

(Some abilities seem to work differently, like heal undead which I may have read heals the most injured unit instead. I'm not sure, haven't tested it.)

I would love an AoW1 style active ability too. Not only does if afford more control, it makes more sense: now, if I can get in an easy fight, I can use nets and whatnot to stall for ages while my priests heal everybody. But at the end of the turn, you can only use the ability once. Weird.

Ah well. On the plus side, at least you can't forget to use the ability before clicking "end turn" anymore.

:) Thanks...that make everything clear

PS:Sorry...just noticed i forget to open the thread as a question :(...so i can't mark your post as solution, so..i can only try to lit a torch for you or bless you everytime i play AWO3 ;)

Heh. Don't sweat it. The boards here aren't very active, but AoW is one of my favourite video game series ever, so I'm always glad to help people with it.