How to skip battle animations in Civilization V?

Solution 1:

Oak's right, there's a setting to turn them off for an entire match. In case you want to do that:

Set Up Game > Advanced Setup > Quick Combat

As pretty as the animations are, they slow the game too much for me so I always play with them off.

Though now that I know Oak's F10 trick (+1, nice tip) maybe I'll consider enabling the prettiness for some matches. :-)

Solution 2:

Since version 1.0.1.674, you can enable and disable Quick Combat and Quick Movement in the options menu. Quick Combat will do what you want.

Alternatively, if you want just to skip the occasional animation but let the rest appear, you can just click F10 twice in quick succession. It's a bit silly but it works, especially useful when aircraft are involved.