Garrison unit?

[Lincoln Peters]

On Mon, 2002-07-29 at 16:37, Hans Ronne wrote:
> Well, the terminology is perhaps a little confusing, but it works
> essentially as you already figured out. Thus, you use up (kill) a unit or
> part of a unit when you create another unit such as a city that "needs" a
> garrison. This is how the colonizer disappears in the civ type games. This
> kind of formal garrison has nothing to do with the real garrison of
> defensive units that your city will need later. It is more like a tax on
> unit creation.

Sometimes, hp-to-garrison is also used for capturing units.  For
example, in old-empire.g, an army vanishes after successfully capturing
a city.