15-08-2001 15:14									#1
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Haven't heard anything about it recently.

	15-08-2001 15:24									#2
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I've not heard or seen anything about it but it's a important question horsie. It has been debated before and is very important. I'll look around if I see anything... If anyone know anything please enlighten us!

	15-08-2001 15:54									#3
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I haven't seen anything so far that supports the idea of stacked units are in civ3, unfortunately..

That was the only good thing about ctp 1/2...

	15-08-2001 16:01									#4
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quote: Originally posted by campmajor! I haven't seen anything so far that supports the idea of stacked units are in civ3, unfortunately.. That was the only good thing about ctp 1/2...

There has been said that we shall be able to use armies.

	15-08-2001 16:14									#5
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But in screenshots you see units, but no armies...

	15-08-2001 16:18									#6
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I've only heard the basics of stacked combat. How the units will attack and defend together, that it takes four cities or a leader to create an army, etc... Somewhere before I heard that you will now be able to retreat. This is all info. we have all heard, though, except maybe the retreat option.

	15-08-2001 20:54									#7
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Will there be a limet of the amount of unites in an armie? Like in CTP there was a limit of 9 unites and in CTP 2 a limit of 12 unites.

If a city is attacked, will all units defend or just 1 per turn (like in Civ I+II).

	15-08-2001 21:04									#8
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We don't know eagle one. that's kind of the point with this thread...

	15-08-2001 21:06									#9
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I agree to you Kropotkin. We just need infos!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

	15-08-2001 21:26									#10
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Just sent the following question to the "Ask the CIV3 Team"

I don't know if they'll answer, but it's worth the try!

Subject: Stacking of Units

Hi Firaxis! August 15 2001

Just a quick question. Will CIV3 have the ability of stacking units together and have them move/attack/defend as one force (like in CTP/CTP2) or will they only attack/defend as one unit at a time?

Thank-you and keep up the great work! ;-)

- Wittlich
(David Troy Binns)
San Francisco, CA

	15-08-2001 21:44									#11
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Here are a couple of snippets from:
http://www.civfanatics.com/civ3infocenter.shtml

"Armies. Like a transport, you can place different units in an army and move them around together. Say you have a tank and an infantry guy in an Army, and someone attacks. The unit with the best defense will stand up and do the defending until he gets worn down by the battle, then he will stop and the other will stand up and defend. The same thing happens in attack. So big armies are really, really powerful. In order to combat somebody who's got armies you pretty much have to build your own. It's an escalating thing which has a big impact on the game."

"Units that have a speed advantage over their opponent will be able to retreat from combat, but you will also be able to launch an "assault", where your units will essentially attack until they win or are killed."

	16-08-2001 00:21									#12
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It looks like Pembleton has answered our questions.

It seems interesting that units don't fight to death but instead until it's worn out. I predict that this will mean that the best tactic is to roam the map with a small number of large armies and maybe a few smaller ones for patrol and skirmishes much like many wars before modern time.