How do military colonies work?

[VoiD]

I just unlocked it through a tradition but the button is grayed out with a red X on "has military colonies"

[EpicD1CK]

Maybe the province has more than 5 pops? What country u playing cause it worked for me with greek traditions.

[VoiD]

Egypt, tried moving around and I couldn't use it anywhere, cities, settlements, low pops, tons of pops, nothing.

[BigPapaTaco]

what does it even do?

[Dimitris]

military colonies are made by your army when on tiles that you dont own (not sure if you need to use a legion or if it is possible with levies) also it isnt automatic ofcourse theres a button in the armies information

[Monty]

Essentially if your legion is on a tile and that tile has less than or equal to 5 pops and you press the military colony button; a freeman pop of your culture is deposited in that tile. However, you lose some money and manpower everytime you do it. I guess the purpose of it is to spread your culture/religion and increase pop size in any location of value to you. For example, in my Antigonid gameplay, I used this feature to add pops to a mountain province in northern macedonia where a fort was. I think it made it easier to convert the other minority pops in that tile. Also if you plan to turn that tile into a city, its a free boost of up to 5 pops of your culture.