Ferdinand Magellan is a Renaissance Era Great Admiral in Civilization VI: Rise and Fall. His unit provides +5 
Combat Strength and +1 
Movement to Renaissance and Industrial era naval units within 2 tiles.
Ferdinand Magellan can be retired while in a player's city to increase its Loyalty by +4 per turn. In Gathering Storm, retiring Magellan grants 300 
Gold (on Standard speed) and a free copy of a Luxury resource on a tile to the 
Capital city.
Strategy[]
In Rise and Fall, Ferdinand Magellan's ability is useless unless you have a coastal city that's struggling with Loyalty, which you shouldn't at this point in the game. It becomes much more useful in Gathering Storm, as it can grant you a copy of a luxury resource as well as some Gold. As a Great Admiral, however, Magellan can only be used on water-based luxury resources such as 
Pearls and 
Turtles, and you'll need lots of cities on the coast and/or with Harbors to reach distant oceans if you're playing on a map where bodies of water are separated by landmasses (as they often are on Shuffle and Fractal). If Montezuma or the Scots have access to bodies of water with new luxury resources, they can make particularly good use of Ferdinand Magellan due to the Combat Strength bonus their units receive from luxury resources and the bonuses they receive from having surplus 
Amenities (respectively).
Civilopedia entry[]
A skilled Portuguese captain and navigator in Spanish service, Magellan is famous for leading the first expedition to circumnavigate the planet, although he himself came to a violent end before the journey's end.
Born in 1480 to a noble Portuguese family, he briefly served as a court page. He sailed to India as part of a contingent installing the Portuguese viceroy, and lived there for almost a decade before being dismissed from Portuguese service for running an unauthorized side trade business. The Treaty of Tordesillas had recently divided the world between Spain and Portugal, and offered the enterprising Magellan opportunities to serve as an explorer in Spanish service. In March 1518, Charles I of Spain gave Magellan a sizeable grant to find a route to the Spice Islands by travelling west, and in September 1519 Magellan departed with five ships and 270 men.
The expedition was a fraught affair. Crossing the Atlantic took longer than expected, and nearly resulted in a mutiny. One ship was lost looking for a sea path through Patagonia, and another simply abandoned the expedition. Once a strait through the tip of South America was discovered and charted, and the expedition entered the Pacific, Magellan assumed that the Spice Islands were only a few day's sail away, utterly failing to anticipate the size of the Pacific.
Magellan was killed in a skirmish on the island of Mactan in the Philippines, after getting embroiled in a local war between tribes. On September 6, 1522, only 18 surviving crew and one ship (the smallest in the original flotilla) returned to Spain. The survivors were never paid their full wages.
The expedition yielded a number of scientific discoveries (including verifying the proper size of the planet), but moreover, it proved the possibility of circumnavigating the planet. The European Age of Discovery was now in full flourish.
Related achievements[]
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Elcano's Revenge
Be the first player to circumnavigate the world after Ferdinand Magellan has been recruited by another player.
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See also[]
- Ferdinand Magellan in other games
