I read the guide and couldnt be bothered to set up invididual roles with different promotions,
so I grab a bunch of seige tanks, assign them into 10-14 groups each with 2 stacks of 5-7, (there are more groups if i have more), 10-20 bombers at cloest city, and bomb the city to 0% + all units at half strength with bmbers before killing it with as small a number of tanks as possible.
I have the wounded tanks + 1-2 healthy tanks guard the new city and have the rest move on, this method seems to enable me to conquer large empires in less than 10turns (on marathon) on prince, with most time spent on traveling rather than attack.
tanks must be paired with bombers imo, individually they are sufficent but not all powerful, with bombers, they are invincible against anything short of a gunship (that include modern armor, if attacking it).
ADD: Have infantry guard your territory helps, line them up along the boarder, once you know where the enemy is concentrating his force, move them together to encircle them, always keep a few bombers at home.
In addition, it seems attacking on a second front is very efficent in civ4. You can declare war on a civ, set up solid defense along the boarder and just slaughter the suicital attackers, while armies of tanks unloaded from transports on the other side can capture all the core cities without being targeted by any serious resistance.
so I grab a bunch of seige tanks, assign them into 10-14 groups each with 2 stacks of 5-7, (there are more groups if i have more), 10-20 bombers at cloest city, and bomb the city to 0% + all units at half strength with bmbers before killing it with as small a number of tanks as possible.
I have the wounded tanks + 1-2 healthy tanks guard the new city and have the rest move on, this method seems to enable me to conquer large empires in less than 10turns (on marathon) on prince, with most time spent on traveling rather than attack.
tanks must be paired with bombers imo, individually they are sufficent but not all powerful, with bombers, they are invincible against anything short of a gunship (that include modern armor, if attacking it).
ADD: Have infantry guard your territory helps, line them up along the boarder, once you know where the enemy is concentrating his force, move them together to encircle them, always keep a few bombers at home.
In addition, it seems attacking on a second front is very efficent in civ4. You can declare war on a civ, set up solid defense along the boarder and just slaughter the suicital attackers, while armies of tanks unloaded from transports on the other side can capture all the core cities without being targeted by any serious resistance.