ok i never really understood civilization but what kinda views do they have in combat and out of combat..Don't tell the ones i have been seeing is the actuall game play where the units are bigger then the buildings or is that a tactical view..I only seen a couple with 3d landscapes if thats the actual game play i was gona by it so someone please help me out..im a noob:crazyeye:

Howdy!

Civ IV is basically a board game. It's turn based. You move the units around on the 'tiles' of the game board, and if your unit meets another unit of a civ you are at war with, they will fight. However, the fighting doesn't get into the tactical detail of a real-time strategy at any point. The 3D landscapes are probably just the game board. The units are bigger than the buildings, but that just allows you to see them more clearly. ;)

Is that what you needed to know? :)

Sorry, that's the only view. The units do fight each other - swing the clubs and fire arrows and all - when combat occurs, but you don't actually direct them on the tactics of how to fight, and there's no special combat view (although the camera does zoom in on them). Combat is determined solely by random chance (based on unit strength of course), not by any tactics that you, the great general, decide on.

Well you are the great general, ordering all your armies around the world.
But your dice-captains do the actual killing in the field.

ok i never really understood civilization but what kinda views do they have in combat and out of combat..Don't tell the ones i have been seeing is the actuall game play where the units are bigger then the buildings or is that a tactical view..I only seen a couple with 3d landscapes if thats the actual game play i was gona by it so someone please help me out..im a noob:crazyeye:

Civ is not like Rome Total Realism, Warcraft or any of the other graphics-intense games where you can match your units against those of your opponents. Instead it is, as one person described it, more like a board game. It's attraction is in the broad spectrum of Leaders, Maps, Technology, Units Resources, etc. and the depth to the strategies and tactics that you will discover if you take the time to browse the threads in these forums, and study up a bit in the War College. Like most worthwhile things, what you get out of the game is a function of how much you are willing to put into it.