Crade of the North Questions + Frustration

I guess mud towers throw mud and frost towers somehow dump frost, but how do you know when to use them?[/QUOTE] Mud towers slow down enemies so they take more time to run closer and may receive more shots meanwhile. Ice towers can extinguish first at later levels. All towers are used automatically, all you need is to build it in proper place. [QUOTE]So if I don't have a spell that I got on another island then I don't need it for the island I am on, but that doesn't mean I might not have it available on another island. Is that correct? How do you know how to cast a spell and on what? Just try and see what happens?[/QUOTE] Yes, since you can recharge spell as many times as you want, you may try to get familiar with one before engaging combat. [QUOTE]If I am fighting a shade, do I just use trial and error to see what effects them? I imagine it would be the same for other things you have to fight too.[/QUOTE] Yes, different enemies have different weak spots and it's up to player to find them out. [QUOTE]Do I need to move my battle flag around to where I think the fighting is the strongest, or do I just leave my flag in the same spot and let the characters go fight where and what they want? That would leave me free to charge spells, figure out how to cast them, try to keep the heros from getting toasted, and repair buildings.[/QUOTE] Once your warriors start fighting, battle flag has no effect. You better repair buildings/charge spells meanwhile. [QUOTE]On Cradle I managed to extend my "sight" out into the void pretty far with towers and I have started putting my flag out in the water where it looks like there might be a sand bar when the "tide" goes in and out. I did this on the Lonely Iceberg and found a bunch of jewels so I tried it all around Cradle island and when I stuck the flag out in the water by the penguins my little guys "walked on water" so I moved the flag to the pedestal and they walked across the water right out to the pedestal and low and behold their was a chest I found on another spit of sand and I managed to get some kind of necklace and some jewels. Was I supposed to be able to do this? [/QUOTE] Yes, you have found a secret, there are plenty of them in this game. [QUOTE]Walking on water is cool, but it doesn't seem to be consistent because I tried to get my little workers off the ring of sand between the mountains by the village where there was a chest, but they won't walk on water to get back to the village. Poor guys are frustrated, just like me. They just want to go home. I tore down the hut and put up a tower to try to get them back and extend my view, but they are still there. [/QUOTE] Unfortunately sometimes people do get stuck. You may try to drag them out manually bit by bit. [QUOTE]As you can tell I'm a neat and orderly type so I'm getting very frustrated not knowing how different elements of the game work, but maybe that is part of the game?????

I have made it to the Island of Worship, and I'm am stuck trying to figure out what in heaven's name those stupid pillars that have symbols on 4 sections, and only 2 sections move,are supposed to be doing.

I have not a clue what all these little temples do either. One gave me a bunch of jewls some how when I was clicking away so I bet there is something in the others or in those altars if I figure out the stupid pillars work. I have a real hard time with puzzles that don't have a starting point I can figure out.