User Guide

ORDER COHORT
This function allows you to issue orders to any
of your existing Cohorts. You may set and
assign patrol routes, send a Cohort after an
enemy, or to return the Cohort to its home
fort. You may call upon your armies to deal
with several types of enemies (see page 54).
If your Province contains any Local Tribes, you may
send a Cohort to subdue them. Tribes are
communities that have not accepted Roman rule yet.
To reign them in, just set a Cohort route that ends on
the tribe’s location. And make sure the Cohort is up
for a fight, because tribes are fiercely independent.
To issue orders, click on the Order Cohort button on
the Province Level. Your mouse pointer will change to
a sword. Place it on the Cohort you would like to
command, and click. A panel will appear, telling you
the number and composition of the Cohort’s soldiers,
its Morale, and a general description of its readiness
for battle. Beneath this data are three buttons:
Select Movement Route to issue movement orders.
Over your mouse pointer, a marker will appear,
connected to your Cohort by a dotted line. Each
additional marker you set by clicking your mouse
will set a waypoint for the Cohort’s patrol route.
You may set as many as ten waypoints. Click on
the final waypoint twice to indicate that you
have finished. If your final waypoint is atop a
previously set waypoint, the Cohort will
repeatedly patrol this “looped” route. To
intercept a moving enemy, just set the first
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