Tortoise (Civ6)

Tortoise is a Tier I Promotion for melee units in Civilization VI.

Effects[]

+10 Combat Strength when defending against ranged attacks.

Civilopedia entry[]

The Romans, bedeviled by barbarians who insisted on shooting at them, devised the testudo – or "tortoise" – formation to counter that foolishness. In effect, the outer ranks of a packed formation aligned their shields to form an all-round wall, while those within raised theirs to cover the top. So long as the tortoise held, they were covered from shin to skull. Once the enemy stopped throwing things, the legionnaires could quickly break the formation and get on with slaughtering the savages. Plutarch was the first to describe the testudo, used by Mark Anthony during his invasion of Parthia in 25 BC.

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.