Excuse the ignorance of this question if it is too noobie, but I am just trying to get the hang of grouping my troops and making my war periods go a lot faster. My question is how best to wake up and group units that are sleeping in a city.
For example, this happened to me yesterday: It's late in the game and I have about twenty cities. I'm almost at a domination victory, but I have to go to war and capture about 3-4 more cities, or waste a bunch of time waiting for the last 50 turns to tick down. Anyway, I have used extra production in my cities to build up troops for just such an occasion.
So I have a city that has ten different units in it, including two Tanks, two Mech. Infantry, and two Artillery in it. I want to wake up just those six units from the city, group them, and move the group to the edge of my border where they are going to invade from. I used to do each unit individually, but that gets tedious after a while.
So, to accomplish this, I double-click on the city to open it, then click on a unit I wish to wake. This closes the city screen and activates the unit. I click or arrow him one square away out of the city. Then I have to repeat this, opening and closing the city window five more times, to wake each unit and move them out of the city. Now I finally have them stacked up on the same square, so I can double-click them to group them, and finally I can move the whole set.
This takes a long time, especially if I have to repeat it in six different cities to wake up all my armies. Is there a better way? Do you leave armies out of the cities so they can stay grouped? Do armies that were grouped stay grouped when they are in cities? Should I put the Artillery separately to allow bombard versus attack?
Thanks for any advice.
For example, this happened to me yesterday: It's late in the game and I have about twenty cities. I'm almost at a domination victory, but I have to go to war and capture about 3-4 more cities, or waste a bunch of time waiting for the last 50 turns to tick down. Anyway, I have used extra production in my cities to build up troops for just such an occasion.
So I have a city that has ten different units in it, including two Tanks, two Mech. Infantry, and two Artillery in it. I want to wake up just those six units from the city, group them, and move the group to the edge of my border where they are going to invade from. I used to do each unit individually, but that gets tedious after a while.
So, to accomplish this, I double-click on the city to open it, then click on a unit I wish to wake. This closes the city screen and activates the unit. I click or arrow him one square away out of the city. Then I have to repeat this, opening and closing the city window five more times, to wake each unit and move them out of the city. Now I finally have them stacked up on the same square, so I can double-click them to group them, and finally I can move the whole set.
This takes a long time, especially if I have to repeat it in six different cities to wake up all my armies. Is there a better way? Do you leave armies out of the cities so they can stay grouped? Do armies that were grouped stay grouped when they are in cities? Should I put the Artillery separately to allow bombard versus attack?
Thanks for any advice.
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