LEGIONS

 

Legions are used to conquer enemy provinces, protect your existing provinces from invaders or rebellions, impress your enemies to get them to ally with you, and to plunder.

Whenever you access the provincial menu (by clicking on any province you own), clicking on "Legions" brings up the following items:

Raise legion: raise a new legion. You need to have a certain amount of talents and enough manpower in whatever province you're raising the legion in.

Strengthen legion: get your legion back to full strength by taking people from the current province. You won't be able to strengthen your legion if the province is too low on manpower or if you're low on talents.

Move legion: this option takes you to the map and allows you to move the legion to any of the surrounding provinces. This has the same effect as right clicking the legion on the world map.

Upgrade legion: upgrades the rank of your legion (ie, updgrade an infantry legion to a cavalry legion). You have to have the rank necessary to create a certain type of legion before you can upgrade to it. Upgrading costs the difference between the two types of legions (ie. upgrading from a cavalry legion to a consular army costs 30 talents).

Legion list: Displays a list of all your legions and their status.

 

Legion types

At the beginning of the game, you can only create infantry legions made up of 4200 legionaries. Infantry legions cost 20 talents.

After reaching the rank of Tribune, you'll be able to create cavalry legions that consist of 4200 infantry and 300 cavalry. Cavalry legions cost 30 talents.

Consular Armies are available once you reach the Consul rank. With 6000 infantry and 600 cavalry, these are the strongest legions you can have. they cost 60 talents. 

 

Legion courage

Depending on the country you obtain the majority of your soldiers from, a legion can be Fierce, Good, Weak, or Panicky. The higher the courage, the less chance there will be that your troops will run from a battle. 

 

Enemy Province's Armies

The Barbarians (Britannia, Germania, Narbonensis, Alpes, Dacia) only have infantry (colored orange) and their General normally spearheads the attack. Some other countries include Gaul (which are grey colored), and Sarmatia which also has come cavalry.

War Elephants are part of the armies of Hispana, Mauretania, Carthage, Cyrenaica, Aegyptus, Syria, Asia and Pontus. On the harder difficulties, war elephants wreak havoc on your lines, and the only way to stop them is by attacking their flanks. Unfortnately, you can never have war elephants among your troops.

The Parthian and Scythian armies are composed solely of cavalry. These are the strongest armies in the game, and you normally need three Consular Armies to take out one of these armies.