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Legion Mod - Alternate

Legion: Gains the Testudo promotion (+15% defense against ranged attacks).

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The new promotion is a simple and flavorful representation of Rome’s famous testudo (“tortoise”) formation where each soldier worked together to form a barrier of tower shields to protect them from ranged attacks. Also, this now gives the Legion a promotion which will remain with it as it upgrades to more powerful units.

I also felt that the Legion should be quite powerful since it’s limited by your quantity of iron early in the game, unlike most of the other early unique units which either replace a regular unit or grant the ability to build them without the strategic resource. The Companion Cavalry and Cataphract are the only other early uniques which are limited by a resource (horses, which are a little more common than iron and located more often in fertile areas).