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.
The Barbarians (Britannia, Germania, Narbonensis,
War Elephants are part of
the armies of Hispana, Mauretania,
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.