Warlords IV: Heroes of Etheria is played like any other Strategy game – from a birds-eye view. This gives you complete vision of structures and units and allows you to scan the map quickly by scrolling across using your mouse. The game screen features a small map, which sits in the top-right corner, displaying dots that represent enemy structures. Along the bottom of the screen is a heads-up display that gives you complete control over quickly selecting units, ending your turn and more, and displays brief information about your gold supplies. Occasionally you’ll run into unoccupied or occupied structures on the map. If you destroy the units guarding the structure you can claim it as your own or destroy it and salvage gold from it. The benefit of claiming a structure is that you can use it to produce extra units if it’s a city or use it to set up defenses, especially if it’s close to your main city. You may also come across a temporarily destroyed city; these can be rebuilt for a small amount of gold.