Depredation (Civ6)

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Depredation is a Tier II Promotion for light cavalry units in Civilization VI. It requires Caparison.

Effects[]

Pillaging only costs 1 Movement point.

Civilopedia entry[]

Light cavalry were famed for depredation – not pillage or plunder, which entails carrying stuff off. Among early raiders, this was the most common and effective form of warfare since they generally couldn’t face an organized army in a stand-up fight. These depredations could lay waste to whole regions, the chevauchée (literally, “horse charge”) popular during the Hundred Years War, such as that carried out by the Black Prince in southern France in 1355 AD. The Prophet Muhammed preached the use of depredation during Islam’s initial expansions, a strategy perfectly suited to the highly mobile Arab forces. As a policy, depredation lasted into the Napoleonic and American Civil wars, after which it fell out of favor.

Civilization VI Promotions [edit]
Land	Advanced Rangefinding • Alpine • Ambush • Amphibious • Armor Piercing • Arrow Storm • Barding • Battlecry • Breakthrough • Camouflage • Caparison • Charge • Choke Points • Commando • Coursers • Crew Weapons • Depredation • Double Envelopment • Echelon • Elite Guard • Emplacement • Escort Mobility • Expert Crew • Expert Marksman • Forward Observers • Garrison • Grape Shot • Guerrilla • Hold the Line • Incendiaries • Marauding • Pursuit • Ranger • Reactive Armor • Redeploy • Rout • Schiltron • Sentry • Shells • Shrapnel • Spiking the Guns • Spyglass • Square • Suppression • Thrust • Tortoise • Urban Warfare • Volley • Zweihander
Naval	Advanced Engines • Auxiliary Ships • Boarding • Bombardment • Coincidence Rangefinding • Convoy • Creeping Attack • Deck Crews • Embolon • Flight Deck • Folding Wings • Hangar Deck • Helmsman • Homing Torpedoes • Line of Battle • Loot • Observation • Preparatory Fire • Proximity Fuses • Reinforced Hull • Rolling Barrage • Rutter • Scout Planes • Silent Running • Supercarrier • Supply Fleet • Swift Keel • Wolfpack
Aircraft	Box Formation • Close Air Support • Cockpit Armor • Dogfighting • Drop Tanks • Evasive Maneuvers • Ground Crews • Interceptor • Long Range • Strafe • Superfortress • Tactical Maintenance • Tank Buster • Torpedo Bomber
Warrior Monk	Cobra Strike • Dancing Crane • Disciples • Exploding Palms • Shadow Strike • Sweeping Wind • Twilight Veil
Nihang1	Jangi Kara1 • Jangi Mojeh1 • Sanjo1 • Tegh1 • Trehsool Mukh1
Giant Death Robot	Drone Air Defense • Enhanced Mobility • Particle Beam Siege Cannon • Reinforced Armor Plating
Apostle	Chaplain • Debater • Heathen Conversion • Indulgence Vendor • Martyr • Orator • Pilgrim • Proselytizer • Translator
Spy	Ace Driver • Cat Burglar • Con Artist • Covert Action • Demolitions • Disguise • Guerrilla Leader • License to Kill • Linguist • Polygraph • Quartermaster • Rocket Scientist • Satchel Charges • Seduction • Smear Campaign • Surveillance • Technologist
Rock Band	Album Cover Art • Arena Rock • Glam Rock • Goes to 11 • Indie • Music Festival • Pop Star • Reggae Rock • Religious Rock • Roadies • Space Rock • Surf Band
Soothsayer2	Incantation2 • Inquisitor2 • Messenger2 • Plague Bearer2 • Zealot2
1 Requires DLC • 2 Apocalypse mode only Added in the Rise and Fall expansion pack. Added in the Gathering Storm expansion pack.