How do I set a rally point for new units?

[shalasa]

I cannot find in the book how to set a rally point for newly created units? Any one out there know?

 

[crazymarco]

No rally point in CivIV I think...
It's not AOE...

 

[alco75]

No rally point in CivIV I think...
It's not AOE...

Actually, there are rally points in Civ4. ( ) Select a city (or cities) then right-click on a tile to set a rally point. Right-click on the city tile itself to cancel a rally point.

 

[LordCopenhagen]

Isn't it Shift + Right Click?

Anyway, I love the rally point system. Gearing up for war, Ctrl + Left Click on a city, Shift + Right Click on a border tile with an AI, and watch as all my purdy units form up for the big win.

(Ctrl + Left Click selects all your cities, so you can build one unit in all of them, or set one rally point for all of them)

Another helpful shortcut:

Alt+Click on building a unit = build the unit indefinately

 

[crazymarco]

Oh! Sorry for my ignorance... I really don't know this funtion...
My Bad...

 

[Stageon]

Hehe, no worries marco... I'm sure lots of people don't know about this.

 

[MyOtherName]

How do you select a city? (And not, say, the units on top of it?)

 

[alco75]

How do you select a city? (And not, say, the units on top of it?)

Left-click its title bar - the one that has its name written on it and appears below the city tile. When you mouse over a city's title bar, it'll be hilighted white. You can additionally shift-left-click to select multiple cities. Note that while a city is selected in this way, it is possible to access and modify that city's production queue and its governor menu. (All this is in the manual, btw. )

 

[tchomasek]

Remember if you set auto-promotion on, then rally point doesn't work...took me long to realise

 

[coanda]

You can also control-click a city's bar to select all cities on the same continent - handy for telling the all to queue up a tank and rally them all to the front at once if you have a big empire and are just wrapping things up for a domination win.

 

[MarigoldRan]

Oh God. I can't tell you how much this would help at larger maps. Like I would stop building units once I felt I had enough because managing all of them would take too much time.

 

[GGracchus]

Select a city or cities, and shift-right click on a tile to set a rally point. If the unit cannot go there, it remains in the city.

 

[jammerculture]

No rally point in CivIV I think...
It's not AOE...

I had forgotten about AOE. That game was so cool....

 

[Ataxerxes]

Remember if you set auto-promotion on, then rally point doesn't work...took me long to realise

Welcome to the forums!

Sounds like reason #5 of why not to autopromote units.

And, yeah, AoE was a great game.