Hanno the Navigator is a Classical Era Great Admiral in Civilization VI. He was added in the Babylon Pack.
His unit provides +5 
Combat Strength and +1 
Movement to Classical and Medieval era naval units within 2 tiles.
Hanno the Navigator can be retired to create a naval melee unit with +2 Movement.
Strategy[]
Hanno the Navigator's ability can be used to provide a very fast scout ship, especially if you discover Mathematics for even faster speed. Keep in mind, however, that unless you're playing a maritime civilization or on an Archipelago map, you're likely not going to find many uses for this ability, since you can't cross Ocean tiles until you discover Cartography.
Hanno's ability is very useful for civilizations that have unique naval melee units, such as the Phoenicians and the Portuguese. The Norwegians under Konge Harald Hardrada can make optimal use of Hanno: their civilization ability allows their naval units to cross Ocean tiles earlier, and Harald's leader ability gives him the Viking Longship and enables all his naval melee units to perform Coastal Raids.
Civilopedia entry[]
Hanno’s story is known from a single Greek text, a translation of an earlier Carthaginian one. It describes the voyage of a Carthaginian explorer, Hanno, in the 5th century BCE, westward out of the Mediterranean and down the western coast of Africa. While the account was widely cited both amongst ancient historians (most notably Herodotus), the extent of Hanno’s voyages is debated amongst modern-day historians, with some speculating that he reached Mount Cameroon (owing to his evocative description of a volcanic eruption), and others marking the extent of his voyage only to southern Morocco. Hanno claims to have settled a number of Carthaginian towns along the African coast and traded both with Berbers along the Sahara coast and sub-Saharan African peoples further south.
Perhaps most interesting in Hanno’s account is his encounter with gorillas. Hanno’s crew sees the apes as strangely uncommunicative and hostile people who fling stones at them and, when captured, “bite and mangle” the Carthaginians. He names them gorillas, although they may well have been chimpanzees. Hanno’s fleet kills three of these, and preserves their “shaggy” skins, although the hides were lost in the Roman destruction of Carthage some centuries later.
See also[]
- Hanno (the Navigator) in other games
