First cohort

**cmacq** · 04-08-2008, 05:45

Because I'm stupid and lazy...

what is it and if one wants it how do you get it? Please use small words.

**MarcusAureliusAntoninus** · 04-08-2008, 05:51

It is a special unit that has a number attached to it. Essentially, it is a unit that you stick one of with every legion so that you can keep track of them.

They are not available until the Marian Era.

**Philippus Flavius Homovallumus** · 04-08-2008, 15:47

They are only available in Rome and they carry the Aquilla, which means the Eagle Taker traits are back and all the associated headaches.

**Centurio Nixalsverdrus** · 04-09-2008, 00:22

Is the eagle a floating magical item or is it for real, like the signum?

**Dhampir** · 04-09-2008, 04:13

It's the color company.

You see them here as the white splotch in the middle of the battalion which is changing direction to the right.

**cmacq** · 04-09-2008, 07:10

Right,

I know what the First cohort was, but I looked for it as a sperate unit and couldn't find it. Is it just a regular heavy foot with enhanced stats?

**pavillon** · 05-03-2008, 15:11

Originally Posted by MarcusAureliusAntoninus

It is a special unit that has a number attached to it. Essentially, it is a unit that you stick one of with every legion so that you can keep track of them.

They are not available until the Marian Era.

I just created my first two first cohorts (after succesfully reached the Marian reform era, so EB script has surely been activated). But I saw no number attached to any of them. In the unit scroll they have just the same name:

Prima Cohors Reformata (Post-Marian First Cohort)
Legio

No number or whathever displayed after the word "Legio" (the spot where I supposed the number should appear). Anyone could clarify this issue?

The First Cohort feature is the most interesting feature for me in EB 1.1 ...really want to see my legionaires stationed all over my empire under their own Legion Number properly displayed

So any light on this matter would be highly appreciated.

Thanks in advance!

**Tellos Athenaios** · 05-03-2008, 20:24

Yes. You make a skin which gets used for *all* such cohorts. RTW can't say "ooh this is LXVI let's change the texture now so it reads LXVI" all by itself.

In short: that's impossible to do with what we have.

**MarcusAureliusAntoninus** · 05-03-2008, 21:52

The unit skin should just say "Legio", but the unit description should have a number. If that doesn't have number then that is probably a bug...

**pavillon** · 05-04-2008, 06:14

Originally Posted by MarcusAureliusAntoninus

The unit skin should just say "Legio", but the unit description should have a number. If that doesn't have number then that is probably a bug...

Marcusaurelius, I might be a total idiot here but could you specify which part is actually the unit "skin" and which is the unit "description"?

(i.e. does "skin" refer to the pop-up label that appears when we put cursor over an army in campaign map {which, in my case shows the first-cohort captain's name rather that Legion's number} and "description" to the scroll that pops-up when we right-click the unit's pic on the recruitment screen in a settlement {which, in my case, does not contain any number but only the word "Legio"})?

Thanks in advance.

-pavillon-