Experience

[mrdun]

Sorry to clog up the forum:embarassed:

Does unit size affect experience?

I will make myself clearer:

I have one unit of Horse Archers on huge unit size, they out manoeuvre 20 units of peasants and kill them all with no casulties;

I have one unit of Horse Archers on small unit size, they out manoeuvre 20 units of peasants and kill them all with no casulties;

Would the huge unit size earn more experience for killing more men or is it say percentages that it goes on.

I think I am making sensible posts and asking reasonable questions, if my behavior is not acceptable please say.

[SSJVegetaTrunks]

I may be wrong here, but...

I believe that experience comes from a number of troops in the unit to number of kills ratio.

[Caius]

I had more troop exp in small than huge.

[Poulp']

from what i have seen,
experience is given on an individual basis, sometimes, after a few casualties unit's exp drops; chevrons on the unit card seem to be an average.
It is pretty sure that routing units give less exp than fighting ones, but I can't say for sure that killing elite will give you more exp than plain troops.

check the ludus magna, you got questions, they got answers

[Aradan]

Routing units give 1/5 of normal exp. All units when not routing give the same. I think that the experience ratio is the same regardless of unit-size as it is individual based. Fewer troops kill fewer enemies, so you 're even. btw the experience level requirements go up in a Fibonacci-like sequence, as Jerome has said.

[Poulp']

what's a Fibonacci-like sequence ?

[Omanes Alexandrapolites]

Hi Poulp',
Perhaps this page (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibonacci_number) could help you.

[Aradan]

That's a math-heavy page! For the non-math type of people around, Fibonacci series is a series of numbers where the first two are 0 and 1 and every other after them is the sum of the two numbers right before it. So it's like that: 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, ...

[Poulp']

I see

thanks a lot, it always a pleasure to learn something.
(although I was afraid when I saw the formula)

[Severous]

I agree with Aradan.

Furthermore.

1) Exp is held at individual soldier level. A units exp is an average of its men.

2) If you have two partially delpleated units you can bring one up to full strength leaving a second depleated unit. You can merge back and forwards between the two units. The men that make up the units varies. Its sometimes possible to group all the experienced men into the depleted unit seemingly gaining experience.

3) When you retrain a depleated unit the new soldiers are supposed to arrive with an experience the same as the average of the soldiers in the unit.

4) Thus group experienced troops together in a depleated unit, retrain, and hey presto a full strength unit of experienced troops.