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Comment by Andrew_nenakhov | Hacker News Reader

In Civ 1/2 you definitely DID NOT kill all stack of units if you killed one. I played them both a lot (and actually prefer them to newer installments), so I know for sure.

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Also not how I remembered it, although my experience is from Civ 3 and Alpha Centauri. There are a bunch of people who don't have this experience so I wonder what's going on.

You're talking to a lot of players who likely only played on Chieftan AI levels: where the enemy AI would rarely meet you in the field and often times only retreat to cities. Even then, they would rarely try to stack-kill the player. It was always possible, but since the easy-AI never attacked in such a manner, the mechanic was basically irrelevant on easy/Chieftan mode.

On more difficult AI levels (Prince or Emperor), the AI would meet you in the field, and you'd have to worry about stack kills. And also worry about cheating AIs who just had more resources than you...

I always played civ 1&2 only on hardest levels.

Now, thinking of this further, i think I might misremember this because I've never let my stacks be attacked in the field.

Best tactics is to drive tanks via railroads up to the city (sometimes building them in the fly using a ton of settlers in one move) and attack it with 20+ tanks and then move in 10 mech infantry for defence, and I used fortresses extensively.

The two times a stack won’t die are if they are stationed in a city or fortress. Any other time the whole stack will die if the top defender gets destroyed.

I'm pretty sure that in Civ 2 all units in a defending tile did actually get killed if the defending unit was defeated. Getting killed when attacking didn't have this effect, of course, nor did it happen if your defending stack was in a fort or in a city.

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