Shells (Civ6)

Shells is a Tier II Promotion for siege units in Civilization VI. It requires Crew Weapons.

Effects[]

+10 Combat Strength against District defenses.

Civilopedia entry[]

Mortars have been pounding defensive walls for centuries during sieges; the high, arcing trajectory of their bombs and shells are also handy for lobbing explosives over things, thus rendering walls, trenches, bastions, and the like somewhat useless. Most historians consider the Turks' siege of Constantinople the first use of mortars, which they used to even better effect in the siege of Belgrade in 1456 AD. European mortars were virtually too heavy to move, until Menno van Coehoorn devised lighter ones, using explosive shells to blast walls apart at the siege of Grave. Mortars fell out of favor during the wars of maneuver in the 1800s, but underwent a resurgence in popularity when World War I saw hundreds of miles of trenches dug.

Civilization VI Promotions [edit]
Land	Advanced Rangefinding • Alpine • Ambush • Amphibious • Armor Piercing • Arrow Storm • Barding • Battlecry • Breakthrough • Camouflage • Caparison • Charge • Choke Points • Commando • Coursers • Crew Weapons • Depredation • Double Envelopment • Echelon • Elite Guard • Emplacement • Escort Mobility • Expert Crew • Expert Marksman • Forward Observers • Garrison • Grape Shot • Guerrilla • Hold the Line • Incendiaries • Marauding • Pursuit • Ranger • Reactive Armor • Redeploy • Rout • Schiltron • Sentry • Shells • Shrapnel • Spiking the Guns • Spyglass • Square • Suppression • Thrust • Tortoise • Urban Warfare • Volley • Zweihander
Naval	Advanced Engines • Auxiliary Ships • Boarding • Bombardment • Coincidence Rangefinding • Convoy • Creeping Attack • Deck Crews • Embolon • Flight Deck • Folding Wings • Hangar Deck • Helmsman • Homing Torpedoes • Line of Battle • Loot • Observation • Preparatory Fire • Proximity Fuses • Reinforced Hull • Rolling Barrage • Rutter • Scout Planes • Silent Running • Supercarrier • Supply Fleet • Swift Keel • Wolfpack
Aircraft	Box Formation • Close Air Support • Cockpit Armor • Dogfighting • Drop Tanks • Evasive Maneuvers • Ground Crews • Interceptor • Long Range • Strafe • Superfortress • Tactical Maintenance • Tank Buster • Torpedo Bomber
Warrior Monk	Cobra Strike • Dancing Crane • Disciples • Exploding Palms • Shadow Strike • Sweeping Wind • Twilight Veil
Nihang¹	Jangi Kara¹ • Jangi Mojeh¹ • Sanjo¹ • Tegh¹ • Trehsool Mukh¹
Giant Death Robot	Drone Air Defense • Enhanced Mobility • Particle Beam Siege Cannon • Reinforced Armor Plating
Apostle	Chaplain • Debater • Heathen Conversion • Indulgence Vendor • Martyr • Orator • Pilgrim • Proselytizer • Translator
Spy	Ace Driver • Cat Burglar • Con Artist • Covert Action • Demolitions • Disguise • Guerrilla Leader • License to Kill • Linguist • Polygraph • Quartermaster • Rocket Scientist • Satchel Charges • Seduction • Smear Campaign • Surveillance • Technologist
Rock Band	Album Cover Art • Arena Rock • Glam Rock • Goes to 11 • Indie • Music Festival • Pop Star • Reggae Rock • Religious Rock • Roadies • Space Rock • Surf Band
Soothsayer²	Incantation² • Inquisitor² • Messenger² • Plague Bearer² • Zealot²
¹ Requires DLC • ² Apocalypse mode only Added in the Rise and Fall expansion pack. Added in the Gathering Storm expansion pack.