Civ 4 Stacked Attacks Question

I have a question about "stacked attacks" on a city versus attacking
one-unit-at-a-time.

When I take cities, I always put all of my attacking units in a single
square and then attack all of them at once in a stack. This seems to
work very well for me.

But can I accomplish the same thing by just attacking the city one unit
at a time from the stack, or from separate locations around the city?

For example, Cyrus has a city filled with about 25 units of various
types. I have about 30 tanks positioned around the city in groups of
say 4 or 5 each. I have knocked down the city unit defenses with my
planes, and city defenses as well.

Now, if I hit the city with one tank at a time, will all of the units
in the city get to hit that one tank when I attack, or does only the
strongest unit in the city get to hit the tank, just one time.

Your advice and experience in this kind of attack, please. Thanks

-Pholus

"Pholus" <Pholus_Mutagen RemoveThis @hotmail.com> writes:

> Now, if I hit the city with one tank at a time, will all of the units
> in the city get to hit that one tank when I attack, or does only the
> strongest unit in the city get to hit the tank, just one time.

Civ4 attacks are one-on-one, against the defender with the best odds,
with a single exception. Artillery attacks the entire stack. That
includes units with "barrage".

If you can afford to, it is better to split like units into different
stacks. Otherwise the opp can damage your entire stack with a single
artillery attack. It may still be right to keep some defensive units
in a stack with offensive units.

It is usually best to attack with barrage units first, so that their
collateral damage takes place before you attack with your other units.
So if you have tanks and cavalry to attack a stack, attack first with
the tanks.


Eddie