Hi folks,
Please excuse the noob question - last night was my first attempt at playing any Civ game, and I gave it a try on my xbox and spent a couple hours at the tutorial, but have a nagging question I can't quite figure out.
Maybe I'm wrong about this, but my expectation is that if I've built some units in the beginning of the game: Warriors, archers, etc., I should be able to select each of these units whenever I like during the current turn and give them orders to move, attack as long as they still have movement or attack points left.
The problem is that I can't figure out how to actually select a unit to make it the current active unit. When the turn starts, a particular unit (random?) is selected and waiting for orders. Usually, I'd like to move a different one first. Perhaps I'd like to see how another attack works out first before moving the current unit. I can't seem to find how to select another unit so that I can give it orders instead. I notice in the controls description that the 4 way arrow key on the left of the controller says 'cycle units'. If i unit is sitting on a city, the up arrow works to toggle to the city rather than the unit, but if a unit is elsewhere, it does not work.
I've tried just clicking on the other unit with the A button, but it just plots a path from the already selected unit to that unit. If the units happened to be adjacent, the first one moves into the second one's hex and kicks it out! A wasted turn...
Can anyone help? Getting kind of frustrated over something that should be really basic. Hope it's not an xbox specific bug... Thanks,
ianc
Please excuse the noob question - last night was my first attempt at playing any Civ game, and I gave it a try on my xbox and spent a couple hours at the tutorial, but have a nagging question I can't quite figure out.
Maybe I'm wrong about this, but my expectation is that if I've built some units in the beginning of the game: Warriors, archers, etc., I should be able to select each of these units whenever I like during the current turn and give them orders to move, attack as long as they still have movement or attack points left.
The problem is that I can't figure out how to actually select a unit to make it the current active unit. When the turn starts, a particular unit (random?) is selected and waiting for orders. Usually, I'd like to move a different one first. Perhaps I'd like to see how another attack works out first before moving the current unit. I can't seem to find how to select another unit so that I can give it orders instead. I notice in the controls description that the 4 way arrow key on the left of the controller says 'cycle units'. If i unit is sitting on a city, the up arrow works to toggle to the city rather than the unit, but if a unit is elsewhere, it does not work.
I've tried just clicking on the other unit with the A button, but it just plots a path from the already selected unit to that unit. If the units happened to be adjacent, the first one moves into the second one's hex and kicks it out! A wasted turn...
Can anyone help? Getting kind of frustrated over something that should be really basic. Hope it's not an xbox specific bug... Thanks,
ianc