JenniferKind
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Lets say I have swordsmen and Chariots. How do I get them both to attack at the same time?
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How do I attack with more then one unit?
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JavalTigar
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You can't. You can group them together to move as one army but each unit will attack seperately. If you have them grouped and move them to attack the computer will select the best attacker for the situation.
JenniferKind
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The other units won't take part in the battle at all?? I.e my archers will attack the city, but the swordsman won't.. sucky!
When grouping together, don't forget to ungroup before attacking. If there's one thing I don't like about the game, or maybe it's just something that I'm not used to yet, it's the grouping and ungrouping of units.
When attacking with a grouped army, once successful the entire army will enter the city/space. This can be quite annoying when you want to move them to a different location instead. Also, if you click for one unit to heal and it's grouped, all of the units in that group will wait until the first unit is healed.
I always forget these things at the worst possible time.
When attacking with a grouped army, once successful the entire army will enter the city/space. This can be quite annoying when you want to move them to a different location instead. Also, if you click for one unit to heal and it's grouped, all of the units in that group will wait until the first unit is healed.
I always forget these things at the worst possible time.
This is an unfortunate clumsiness in the game that I really find lacking. It's kind of like those martial arts movies where you get 50 guys, but they're all polite enough to attack the hero one by one. Pretty dumb stuff.
In a turn-based game, though, I guess it's fairly natural. I think X-COM UFO did it much better though. You wouldn't use up all your movement points for a guy at once, so you could make attacks and defenses with multiple different units for a real combined arms effect. Civ 4 is more like a rock-scissors-paper effect, where if the match-up is wrong, you can basically throw an entire army at an enemy unit and it will wipe the whole army out single-handedly if it's the rock to your scissors, etc.
I'm loving the game a lot, but the combat seems like a dopey, incredibly simplistic let-down. It's been done better before -- infinitely better.
In a turn-based game, though, I guess it's fairly natural. I think X-COM UFO did it much better though. You wouldn't use up all your movement points for a guy at once, so you could make attacks and defenses with multiple different units for a real combined arms effect. Civ 4 is more like a rock-scissors-paper effect, where if the match-up is wrong, you can basically throw an entire army at an enemy unit and it will wipe the whole army out single-handedly if it's the rock to your scissors, etc.
I'm loving the game a lot, but the combat seems like a dopey, incredibly simplistic let-down. It's been done better before -- infinitely better.
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