How do I break up an Army???

[Ijuin]

In my game, I removed the "requires a victorious army" flag from the Military Academy. This means I can always build it as soon as I have Military Tradition. This makes having Armies quite a bit more powerful, especially during the Industrial Age when defense is stronger than offense. Try attacking Infantry with Calvary units and you will lose half of your Calvary at least. Then try attacking an Infantry with an Army of three or four Calvary units. You'll steamroller them.

The reverse works too. Place an Army of Infantry (or Riflemen if you don't have Infantry) to defend a position and it will be indestructable until Tanks are available unless the AI gets enough brains to do heavy Artillery bombardment on it..

[Cookie Monster]

I routinely use armies with a fair degree of success. Load up an army with 3 tanks and crack open that tough 15 pop city defended by Infantrymen. It works. Armies composed of tanks can also attack twice in one turn, another plus. Later create an army of MA and go hog wild on the AI.

The advantage of using a couple of armies to take a 12+ size town is that you don't have to bombard irrigated tiles to knock the pop down so you can attack with a single unit successfully. You don't have to bombard the city to kill the pop and risk blasting valuable improvements.

The only thing armies can't do is pillage but that's a small price to pay for a unit that can bust big cities without a lot of collateral damage.

I'll show you guys when PTW comes out.

So you can't upgrade an army eh? This might be a problem if you have an army of swordsmen when you have the tech for say rilfemen, however it's not so bad not being able to upgrade an army of tanks. Besides, at that point in the game your production power should be so great that you could disband the unwanted army and create a new one of MA in a relatively short period of time.

[CivGeneral]

I usualy load up my army with infantry units (Musketmen, Riflemen, infantry, Modern infantry(Grunt add on mod )
And usualy have non-infantry units on there own.

P.S. I use the Grunt graphic for the Modern Infantry via the Civ3edit, In witch I use in my own games.