Merging Units

[Macilrille]

I read that it can be done. How?

Thanks.

[Labrat]

On the strat map? Simply click and drag one unit card over the card of the unit whose numbers you want to augment. Numbers of the unit whose card you held will then be added to the target unit until either the receiving unit is filled up or the target is empty. This only works with identical units, off course (and mercenary variants do not count as identical). I don't know what effect it has on weapon and armour upgrades, but the experience of the two units does merge, so if you fill up a veteran unit with members of a freshly recruited one, expect to lose some chevrons (you don't really lose experience, as an unit's experience is the average of that of its soldiers, but the unit as a whole will have less chevrons and therefore a lower morale and stats).

[Silence Hunter]

Dragging works for manual merging, but there is a hotkey for an automatic merge of the units (just can't remember what it is..ctrl+M I think, but not sure on this as I always merge manually). The automatic merge will merge all your identical depleted units into full size ones. Merging fresh recruits with experienced troops will average the experience between them so the unit loses some chevrons. The armour and weapon upgrades behave in the same way, so if there is more guys without upgrades than with them the unit will stay un-upgraded.

[Centurio Nixalsverdrus]

The armour and weapon upgrades behave in the same way, so if there is more guys without upgrades than with them the unit will stay un-upgraded.
Unfortunately, if there is only one soldier coming into a new unit who has no armour / weapon upgrade, the whole unit will appear as not upgraded, though not before you have once left the view of your army and came back again.