Abonner for at downloade
Legion Mod

Legion: Gains the Cover I promotion (+33% defense against ranged attacks) and cost increased to 85 instead of 75.

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The bonus promotion is a flavorful representation of Rome’s famous testudo (“tortoise”) formation where each soldier worked together to form a barrier of tower shields to protect them from ranged attacks. Also, this now gives the Legion a promotion which will remain with it as it upgrades to more powerful units.

I also felt that the Legion should be quite powerful since it’s limited by your quantity of iron very early in the game (which is also just discovered with the Legion's prerequisite tech), unlike most of the other early unique units which either replace a regular unit or grant the ability to build them without the strategic resource. The Companion Cavalry and Cataphract are the only other early uniques which are limited by a resource (horses, which are a little more common than iron and located more often in fertile areas).

I increased their cost a little bit for balance (these guys are elite after all!), because not only is it very useful to start with Cover I, but the promotion has the Legion’s already very high combat strength to work off of for even more benefit against ranged attacks.