Why cant i move whole stacks from my cities?

so everytime i move a stack into a city i have to click them all individually to get them out of there......this is a long and annoying proccess or am i missing something?

why cant there be an option to select the whole stack and move them out?

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Reply #1 Top

hold down ctrl key and left click one at a time on each unit you want to move out, you can move the whole group at once this way, moving units should have a yellow border

Reply #2 Top

This should probably go in the FAQ's since i didn't know either. I am glad that i now do :)

Reply #3 Top

When you're in your city, click on the blank shield to the left your group.  This opens the "stationed units" menu.   Select who you want to leave the city then select "eject".  

Reply #4 Top

Your not missing anything - I never put groups of units in cities if i intend to keep moving them, regardless of any movement boost i may get which can be quite substantial, it just isn't worth the hassle of having to regroup all the units each time.

Reply #5 Top

You can also press "V" while a city is selected and that will eject all units out of the city (Vacate).

I didn't know abot the shield icon one, thank you!

Reply #6 Top

i don't have the game available at the moment, but doesn't the eject button (and vacate) send them someplace randomly? you really want to select them and give them a destination, like cpl_rk describes. click the city, see the little circle portraits on the right hand side, select them using ctrl(shift works too i think) then right click outside the city in the direction you intend to send them.  but i would steer clear of eject, as it can add massive amounts of travel time depending on where the game sends you and how your cities are set up, unless something has drasticly changed since i quit playing(waiting for 1.11)

however i would also recommend not going through cities unless you are sure to get a significant boost in travel time, not just for the annoying interface, but the loss of movement points as the game merges the two armies whether you want it to or not, reducing the movement to the lowest of the two. i do hope they find a solution to that.

Reply #7 Top

I believe you're right dadoo2, I've not played for abit (playing Amnesia and Rise of Flight while waiting) and you could not pick your destination.  I liked it because it was fast.

Reply #8 Top

i know of the shield and clicking individually, but when i have a large stack defending a city its really annoying clicking on like 20 units individually to get them all out..

Does pressing V eject them all at once in the same stack?