icons on the cards

In the manual, they call it the 'review panel', it's the lower middle windows on the campaign map where you see 'cards' for your army units if you click the army/fleet tab.

In this panel, only, on the cards for the generals and military units, there are a few different icons that can be in a column on the left of the card below the number of troops in that unit. Immediately below the unit size there can be a gold star, a silver star or a scroll, only on general's cards.

In the row below that there can be gold or silver chevrons, which seem to indicate experience levels for the unit.

Below the chevrons some units have a sword icon.

At the bottom there's a gold or silver shield which seems to indicate the armor upgrade level.

So:

What does the gold star/silver star/scroll mean? Which is better, gold or silver star?

How do you read the chevrons? More is clearly better, but gold vs silver again? Maybe they're bronze rather than gold. Do 2 bronze mean more than a silver or what?

What's the sword icon mean?

For armor, which is better, gold/bronze or silver shield?

Thanks for any answers, I hunted all through the manual for this and couldn't find anything, and didn't know what to search for on the forum either.

Gold stars show you which general is in command of the army, while other generals in that army will have silver stars and so will the commander of any reinforcement armies. There are no scrolls in M2 IIRC.

Chevrons go like this in ascending order:
0 (the worst/basic) 1 bronze, 2 bronze, 3 bronze, 1 silver, 2 silver, 3 silver, 1 gold, 2 gold, 3 gold (the best). Chevrons give an increase to attack and defence IIRC (or maybe just defence in 1.3?)

The swords in M2 can only be bronze and represent a weapon upgrade.

The shields go: bronze, silver, gold. These do indeed repreesent armour upgrades but not all units can go up to gold or some can't even have bronze, it depends on the unit's starting armour.

Hope this helps :)

I've got to admit, I thought you were crazy, so I looked in the manual, and although I only took a quick flip-through, I didn't see this information in there, either.

So...

A gold star means the unit is the commanding general in battle.

A silver star means the unit is a general, but is not the one considered in command.

A scroll means the unit is the general who is acting as governor of a settlement.

Chevrons show the average experience of the unit. They come in bronze, silver, and gold, with gold being the best. They change colors after every three chevrons, so starting from the bottom, it goes, one bronze, two bronze, three bronze, one silver, two silver, three silver, one gold, two gold, three gold, which is the max. Note, therefore, that sometimes one chevron is actually better than three.

The sword icon means the unit has had its weapons upgraded by a swordsmith, alchemist, etc.

Armor goes in the same order as chevrons (and Olympic medals, duh!) bronze is lowest, then silver, then gold as the best.

EDIT: Bob beat me. I'd feel useless, but he was wrong about the scrolls! ^_^

oh dang I forgot about governors :oops: , sigh, Rhedd wins after all :2thumbsup:

Thanks!