Hide fortified units?

[RodLosAngeles]

I just bought Civ4 two days ago, and this is my first trip back to these forums since the days of Civ3. One option I liked in Civ3 was the ability to hide city defenders, but I don't see this option in Civ4. I like to see my cities but it's hard when there is a 300ft spearman standing on top of the granary.

Did I overlook something? Or is there a mod to make units invisible when occupying a city?

Thanks.

[Adagio]

I haven't seen that option yet, but I do hope it's there, somewhere... it kinda kills the point about the feature that you can now see what buildings the city has, because you can't see the city

[GeoModder]

Simply zoom in as close to a city as you can. They should disappear then.

[johnmcd]

Ctrl+B is what you want I think, though that hides all units.

[Adagio]

Originally posted by johnmcd
Ctrl+B is what you want I think, though that hides all units.

I'm not interested in having all units hidden, that kinda makes it hard to play

Originally posted by GeoModder
Simply zoom in as close to a city as you can. They should disappear then.

You have to zoom very close to the city for them to go away

[GeoModder]

Then you have a very close view of the city as well, which need to be done in any case to view the separate buildings.

[RodLosAngeles]

So there is no way to do this? If memory serves, it was an option/feature as far back as Civ2 and even Civ1.

A better way would be to display a tiny graphic by the city name to represent what units are defending a city, or how many units are currently in that city - in the same way that the city's religion is displayed with a mini-graphic, for example.

It would be cool if a mod could be made to do this. But I can live with it.