Legion (Civ6)

Legion
Melee unit of the Classical Era
Introduced in Civilization VI
Unique to	Roman
Unique to	Roman
Replaces	Swordsman
Replaces	Swordsman
Unlocked by	Iron Working
Obsoleted by	Replaceable Parts
Resources
Resource	Iron
Resource	Iron
Cost
Production	110
Production	110
Gold	440
Gold	440
Maint.	2
Maint.	2
Stats
Movement	2
Movement	2
Melee	40
Melee	40
Build charges	1
Build charges	1
Sight	2
Sight	2
Upgrade path
Upgrades from
Warrior
Warrior
Upgrades to
Man-At-Arms
Man-At-Arms
Notes
Roman unique Classical era melee unit that replaces the Swordsman. Can build a Roman Fort.

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The Legion is a unique melee unit of the Roman civilization in Civilization VI. It replaces the Swordsman.

In the Gathering Storm expansion, the Legion requires 10 Iron to train.

• Common abilities:
  • +5 Combat Strength vs. anti-cavalry units.
• Special abilities:
  • Has 1 build charge.
  • Can construct a Roman Fort. (Consumes build charge.)
  • Can clear terrain. (Consumes build charge.)
• Special traits:
  • Higher Combat Strength (40 vs. 35).
  • Higher Production cost (110 vs. 90).

Strategy

The Legion's raw strength and ability to create fortifications make it an invaluable tool in early-game expansion. Capturing multiple cities in a single campaign becomes much easier, since defenses can be constructed immediately around a captured city. They can also repair damaged tile improvements.

A different, very powerful, strategy is to use the Legion's ability to spend their build charge to chop Woods. This allows the Legion to create a sort of chain reaction: train a Legion, then use its build charge to expedite the training of another Legion, and repeat until you run out of Woods (or Iron in Gathering Storm). This can get you an extremely large early game army that can spell instant doom for your neighbors.

Civilopedia entry

The legion was the most efficient and effective fighting force in history...well, in its time anyway. A fully-equipped, fully-staffed Roman legion could march across any terrain, laying a road as it did, built a fortified camp at the end of it, and then take any foe or take any wall. During the Empire a legion was composed of infantry, recruited exclusively from Roman citizens, along with the cooks, armorers, engineers, artillerists, medics and command staff (as well as the usual camp followers and sutlers) necessary to operate in the field for years at a time. The light infantry, archers, scouts, and cavalry were generally auxiliaries, provincial non-citizens (those who survived to be honorably discharged gained citizenship) assigned to a legion as necessity dictated. Extremely disciplined (usually), the legion’s heavy infantry were armed with pilum (throwing spear) and gladius (short sword) and conquered most of the known world (granted, a bunch of barbarians and decaying empires) at the time.

Gallery

Legions in game

A Legion up close

Historic Moment for building the Legion

Related achievements

Missed That Day in History Class Clear nuclear contamination with a Roman Legion A common joke, typically used to refer to situations which seem directly contradictory to what would actually be taught in a history class.

See also

• Legion in other games