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Early Legionary Cohort (RTW Unit)

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Early Legionary Cohort (RTW Unit)
ROMAN LEGIONARY COHORT I INFO.png
Class Heavy Infantry
Unit Size 161 men
Weaponry
  • Pila
  • Sword
  • Morale 10
    Melee Attack 9
    Ranged Attack 13
    Defence 17
    Charge Bonus 3
    Accuracy N/A
    Range 35
    Ammunition 2 per men
    Region Global
    Recruitment Cost 610
    Upkeep Cost 210
    Turns to Build 1
    Unit Limit Unlimited
    Building Requirements City Barracks
    Technology Requirements Marian Reforms
    Attributes
  • Can sap
  • Can form testudo
  • Can hide in forests
  • ROMAN LEGIONARY COHORT I.png Well-armed and armoured infantrymen, who go into combat flinging heavy spears that are followed up with hand-to-hand attacks.

    Overview

    Roman legionaries are tough, professional troops with good armour and superb weapons. Their hallmarks are discipline, obedience and tactical flexibility. When approaching enemy fortifications, for example, they can use the turtle formation, or testudo, overlapping their shields for protection.

    Every legionary’s chainmail armour, the lorica hamata, is of very good quality, as is the rest of his gear: a metal helmet and a large curved shield. They fight with two throwing spears (the pilum, plural pila) and a short stabbing sword, the gladius. Each pilum has a soft iron shaft behind the piercing head that is designed to bend as soon as it hits a target, making it impossible to pull out and throw back. Embedded in a shield a pilum hampers an enemy. Embedded in a man, it usually kills. Once the pila have been thrown, legionaries close and continue fighting with the stabbing gladius.

    Historically, these legionaries only came to be after the army reforms of Gaius Marius. He abandoned property and age requirements for the legions, and made the Roman army into a professional force. No longer would a man have to provide his own war gear; he would be paid, serve a term of 25 years and then retire with enough land to give him a pension for the remainder of his days.

    Details

    These are the Romans’ initial, basic post-Marian legionaries. Early Legionary Cohorts, like the rest of Rome’s standard legionary infantry, are armed with two pila and a sword. They have decent armor, as well as a much higher attack and morale than preceding Auxilia. Although generally good on the battlefield, Early Legionary Cohorts are also the beginning of a more expensive streak of soldiers.

    Early Legionary Cohorts are the most inexpensive Roman unit that can form a testudo (meaning “tortoise” in Latin). In this formation soldiers form a ‘shell’ of shields around them in a sturdy, but slow and inflexible, formation practically impervious to missiles.

    Factions

  • Senate Faction Symbol-Vanilla.pngSenate
  • Brutii Faction Symbol-Vanilla.pngThe House of Brutii
  • Julii Faction Symbol-Vanilla.pngThe House of Julii
  • Scipii Faction Symbol-Vanilla.pngThe House of Scipii
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