moving airunits before landunits

[sas]

Is it possible to set the game so that the air units move before the land units? I hate having to cycle through all the units to be able to move the air units first.

[Willem]

Well if a land unit's turn comes up before your air ones, you could always press the (W)ait key so they'll get their move later. There's no way to set priorities though, at least not in the default game. It would be kind of a nice option to have I must admit.

[Diadem]

The order priorities in civ are really frustrating sometimes. It should mix workers and military, and it should adapt its order based on what your doing.

When I'm fighting a war at two different places way too often I move on unit, get dragged to the other side of the world, manually move back, move a unit again, get dragged to the other side of the world again, rinse and repeat...

My suggestion would be to do all workers last (not first! Often you want to change worker orders based on what your military does, for example when reassigning automated workers to build roads for your troops). And settlers too. Military units should cycle based on location, with near units comming before units further away.

[SpencerH]

Turn off unit cycling.

[Diadem]

Obviously that doesn't work. I want unit cycling, otherwise I'll never get to move all my units. I just want it in a convenient order...

[sas]

To be honest, i think it's abit strange that noone though about this. In wars, bombing cities and units is vital before you move in the land units. Several times in large wars i've forgotten som bombers and attacked a city and lost only to realize afterwards i forgot to soften up the defenders. If the bombers had been first in the unit cycle i wouldnt miss such things.

[Diadem]

I agree.

So order should be:
Air units
Naval Units
Military basing order on location
Workers
Settlers
Great People / missionaries

[snoopy369]

Originally posted by Diadem
Obviously that doesn't work. I want unit cycling, otherwise I'll never get to move all my units. I just want it in a convenient order...

If you turn off automatic unit cycling, you can do whatever you specifically want in a convenient order, and then manually unit cycle to the end (Enter key cycles to the next unit).

[Lord Avalon]

Does hitting enter take that unit out of the cycle? Or would you get back to it eventually?

And would you have to deactive enter for end turn?

[Krill]

Err...you can click on a unit and move it out of order, y'know...

[Blaupanzer]

Diadem, I take it that moving land units fits in there somewhere?

[Krill]

That comes under third on his list...

[Diadem]

Originally posted by Krill
Err...you can click on a unit and move it out of order, y'know...

That reminds me of civ1. My mouse did not work in that game, for some reason I've never been able to figure out. Made the gameplay quite interesting. Eventually I discovered that by pressing ctrl-y you could create a kind-of cursor that you could use to select units. But that was not after playing the game for weeks (and defeating prince :P).

In civ1 a city kept building units indefinitely, the 'what do you wnt to build now' only popped up if you built a settler or building. So once I set a city to building units it did that for the rest of the game

[snoopy369]

Originally posted by Diadem
So once I set a city to building units it did that for the rest of the game

As it should be

[Jaybe]

To move air units first is fine, except for when I advance a land unit and I wish I had 4 bombers to blast this SOD I found, or I take a city and wish I had some aircraft in reserve to base in it.

There is no bleepin' way that Firaxis could have please ANYBODY all the time with order of movement.