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    Default Re: Cohortes Reformatae slow to gain experience?

    Romans don't get experience bonuses from anything except Level 4 governments, as far as I can see.

    Some factions do indeed get +1 experience from other levels of government, and a number get another +1 from a game field (or equivalent), and some also get +1 from some higher level temples. Then there are the occassional special structure or wonder or geographical feature that can add another +1 to experience.

    The best I've had is the Getai with a level 2 (or was it 3?) government (+1), at Sarmizegethusa (sp?) which has some holy mountain (+1), and building a game field (+1) and some war god temple (+1) giving me silver-chevron falxmen churned out on the cheap.

    But I'll agree with the idea that auto-calc gets experience faster than fighting yourself. I also find that shifting soldiers between units after a battle works too. For example, I might have 6 units of principes, and the first has lost 5 men, while the other 5 are full-strength at 82. They'll all have 1 bronze chevron to start with, but when I move 5 men from the second to the first unit they get 2, and the same moving 5 men from the 3rd to 2nd, and so on. It's the exact same units, with the exact same men, but just shuffling 5 men from one to the next bumps up the experience of each unit. I've never worked out why that happens, it just seems to.

    The other wierd thing is when you'll have a battle and units that don't get anywhere near the action, and end with 0 kills and 0 casualties, somehow get an experience upgrade. Obviously experience doesn't only depend on kills. Perhaps each level requires a set number of battles? Or victorious battles?

    And while I'm at it, has anyone ever had a FM go into battle with heaps of experience, and come out with none? I've had guys with 3 gold chevrons suddenly end up with nothing, while the FM stays alive. Of course your FMs can get extra experience from ancillary characters like spear holders, so I wondered if all of that experience gets "stored" in one particular bodyguard, and if he's killed so goes all the experience?
    Last edited by Apgad; 11-24-2008 at 10:16.
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