Quote Originally Posted by Ashtart
I find a problem in total war games.
When I play I try to keep the same army during all the campaign to have a very experienced units but I find that it more easy to have experience when you play automatic battles than real manual battle. It's true for RTW and M2TW
For EB2 could you correct this.

A ptolemaic fan
I think game counts kill numbers (and maybe number of battles) for each soldier in unit (do not ask how, it's just the most logical conclusion)

On autocalc those are divided equaly resulting in faster growth of exp. On played battles you can have some soldiers who killed 10 opponents and some without kill - this means that exp level do not have to grow. What's more, shooters advance faster than melee units as even in played battle each soldier has much bigger chance to get some kills.