War and Legions Post-Crusade

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At war!  I stuffed 10 legions into my first transport.  No legions left.  Doh!  So I started building those little red marine trainers.  

Are legions banked colony wide like food?  Or does each planet make its own, and you have to taxi them around?

Are legions consumed on invasion, or can some survive to fight another die?

Are the little red trainers the only way to produce legions, or does each planet naturally produce them over time?

Where can I look to see how many legions I have (and where they are)?

edit: on a different topic... for galaxy settings, for the exotic planets parameter, when the map is generated, are the exotic planets taken from the pool of habitable planets?  Or are they generated separately?  In other words, can I increase the max of habitable planets by setting exotic planets to common?  Or would I be reducing the number of habitable non-exotic planets by doing so?

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Reply #1 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

I'm guessing by little red trainers you mean generals yes. The transport is not consumed when you conquer a planet, so if the legions survive they are reusable, but i don't think you can change the number. Legions are civilization wide until you load them; either, on a colony, or on a transport. 

Reply #2 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Quoting admiralWillyWilber, reply 1

I'm guessing by little red trainers you mean generals yes. The transport is not consumed when you conquer a planet, so if the legions survive they are reusable, but i don't think you can change the number. Legions are civilization wide until you load them; either, on a colony, or on a transport. 

No, not generals, I mean the improvements.

Thanks for the info!

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Reply #3 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Other than Generals, those little red buildings (I don't remember off hand what they are called either) are the only way to gain new legions.  They go into the global pool, and may be used to garrison (no way to get them back, they are stationed on that planet until they die) or in a transport ship.

An interesting thing, and I think it is a bug - when the transport ejects from a planet, it only asks you how many you wish to fill it with, if the number of legions remaining is 1.  If you have a legion capacity of 10, and 2 legions left on the ship, and 8 in the pool, it will not allow you to "fill up".

Reply #4 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Any colony with a military academy can create legions, when legions are completed, they are stationed in a reserve - which transports draw from when transports leave the shipyard (prompt pops up). Generals provide legions to the reserve and when generals are promoted to supreme generals do as well. 

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