Laws

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A law is always a choice between two opposing options. Enacting a law requires 400 No Icon Found and a prerequisite technology. More advanced laws have a higher upkeep such as No Icon Found or Training.png upkeep. Changing a law costs 600 No Icon Found, which may be reduces through an archetype.

List of laws

Required Tech Option 1 Effects 1 Upkeep 1 vs Option 2 Effects 2 Upkeep 2
Labor Force Slavery
  • +5 Orders.png
  • [All Cities]: +1 No Icon Found
Freedom
  • [All Cities]: +2 Science.png
Aristocracy Centralization
  • [Capital City]: +20%No Icon Found, +20%Science.png
Freedom
  • -50% unit consumption
Sovereignty Tyranny
  • [All Cities]: +1No Icon Found
  • +10 No Icon Found per Military Unit within City Territory
Constitution
  • Unlocks Decree in Capital
  • +10 No Icon Found
Rhetoric Epics
  • +10Culture.png per Unit Killed
1 No Icon Found Exploration
  • Movement Bonus along River
  • Scouts Move on Water
1 Training.png
Navigation Colonization
  • Can Buy Tiles
1 Training.png Serfdom
  • [All Cities] Farms +20% Output
1 Civics.png
Monasticism Monotheism
  • [State Religion City]: +1 Orders.png
1 No Icon Found Polytheism
  • [All Cities]: Can build unlimited Shrines
1 No Icon Found
Citizenship Professional Army
  • [All Cities]: -25% Unit Training time
  • [All Cities]: Archive: +2 Training.png
2 Training.png Volunteers
  • Every war yields +200 Training.png
  • Can hurry Unit production with Citizens
2 Training.png
Theology Tolerance
  • [All Cities]: -1 No Icon Found
  • Town: +4 Culture.png
2 No Icon Found Orthodoxy
  • [State Religions Cities]: +2 No Icon Found
2 No Icon Found
Coinage Guilds
  • -1 Year to Build Improvements
2 No Icon Found Elites
  • [All Cities]: Elder Specialists: +4 Culture.png
  • -25% Urban Specialists Train Time
2 No Icon Found
Architecture Philosophy
  • [All Cities]: +1 Science.png
3 No Icon Found Engineering
  • Wonders cost -20% resources
3 Training.png
Aesthetics Iconography
  • [All Cities]: Temples: +2 Growth.png
  • [All Cities]: Holy Site: +5 Orders.png
3 Training.png Calligraphy
  • [All Cities]: Library: +4 Science.png
3 No Icon Found
Lateen Sail Isolationism
  • [All Cities]: Receive ??
  • All infantry units receive the Garrison promotion.
3 No Icon Found Trade League
  • Convoy?
  • [All Coastal Cities]: +3 Growth.png
3 No Icon Found
Warrior Code Asceticism
  • [All Cities]: Pastures, Groves, Nets: +1 Growth.png
  • Holy City: +2 Growth.png
3 Training.png Holy War
  • [State Religion Cities]: +2 Training.png
  • +1 Random Promotion for new Units
3 No Icon Found
Jurisprudence Divine Law
  • Store up to 10 Orders.png between Turns
  • [All Cities] Can build State Religion Improvements
3 No Icon Found Secularism
  • Can build Disciplines of Non-State Religions
  • [All Cities]: -100% chance of Rebel Units
3 Training.png
Fiscal Policy Coin Debasement
  • Can Buy/Sell Orders.png
  • [All Cities]: +1 No Icon Found
3 No Icon Found Monetary Reform
  • Can Sell for the same price as Buying
3 No Icon Found