How to XP up units?

[Chimpyang]

I wouldn't blame anyone at using the 'volley' and charge strategy especially if your melee tech is better.

That indeed is what you are supposed to do, if you follow the French doctrine towards the end of the era. Column up slightly, find a weak point and charge!

Warning - may be even better to use a mixed line...have your recruits take the hits in a line fending off a flanking whilst your finest melee units ploughs in. Usually try and aim them at the "join" between 2 eney units, with enough momentum you can split the line and push outwards.

[Warhammer3025]

I'm still having a helluva hard time exping my troops. I seem to be able to get to 2 chevrons without too much hassle but the hump to get to 3 is just maddening. I'm carefully husbanding my high xp troops and letting my green recruits do the majority of the dying for the most part using melee tactics stated above (units tend to suffer less damage in melee oddly enough). For the most part the AI fights me smart, rarely doing the retarded lone cavalry unit suicide charge and their infantry advance in formation hold their ground to trade volleys with me not mill about and get shot in the flanks as people usually complain about. I'm playing on VH/H, since on VH battles it just gets ridiculous how hard the AI is to kill and their hitting power. Despite 90 turns of hard fighting the best i can do is 2 chevrons for my line inf, lancers, and cuirassiers... and now with the newly built Arc De Triumph i can now train 2 chevron inf... *sighs*

I'm starting to wonder whether its the unit sizes that might be why folks are able to xp up faster. I'm using normal unit sizes so that my comp wont lag too much (especially for the full stack on full stack battles), but if i have huge units that means waaay more potential kills and xp, but i'm sure my losses will also go up accordingly to negate the xp gain via replenishment. Are the faster xp gainers using huge unit sizes then? I prefer huge units and played that way in M2:TW and xped up pretty quickly, so that may be the case. Also does the AI fight differently with larger unit sizes or something?

Nothing ticks me off more than having a 30 man cav unit with 150 kill and not gain xp (at 2 chevrons)

[anweRU]

I do most of my battles with autocalc (the battles usually take too much time, I have a finite time to play!), and have several 3 chevron line infantry which got there after 4-5 major battles. Autocalc does seem to give more XP to units than manual battle.

I'm still puzzled about this reinforcement bug that you are talking about though. I replenish my units, and they keep their chevrons just fine. Heck, they better do that, replenishing a 3 chevron unit is 2x or 3x more expensive than replenishing a similarly depleted no-chevron unit!

[Bob the Insane]

Try Darth's mod (once he gets it working again with the new patch)...

It is designed to be played on N/N (M/M) as he is looking to get the best out of the AI without it cheating.

He has made some excellent tweaks so far, tweaks that even appear to make the AI make better decisions on occasion.

In my first battle using his Mod I attacked a Native American settlement. The kept their main force back in the trees (with their general) while probing with some units on the flanks. I dealt with the flank attacks and thought that the AI General was now all by himself behind a hill. Some while walking the infantry up and massed my cavalry (2 Provincial and 3 Generals) and charged the AI's general. Well I didn;t see all the native units hiding around the general location until I was on top of them. I was lucky not to loose a General, there body guards where decimated and I lost a whole Provincial cavalry unit. As the I charge my remaining cavalry behind my rapiding reforming infantry line the mass of Native troops charged into melee with my infantry line.

I out numbered the enemy and was always going to win, but I took higher casualties than expected and actually had an "OMG, it's all going wrong" moment during battle (which was a nice surprize)...

http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=240571

[MikeV]

Some while walking the infantry up and massed my cavalry (2 Provincial and 3 Generals) and charged the AI's general. Well I didn;t see all the native units hiding around the general location until I was on top of them. I was lucky not to loose a General, there body guards where decimated and I lost a whole Provincial cavalry unit. As the I charge my remaining cavalry behind my rapiding reforming infantry line the mass of Native troops charged into melee with my infantry line.

Why were you charging your cavalry before engaging the enemy with your infantry? Where were your skirmishers, with their tactical recon of the enemy's position?

You deserved to have your head handed to you!

[Warhammer3025]

using huge units seem to make the xp flow faster since there aer more folks to kill despite having to spread the xp out to more men. Ugh, pisses me off they still havent fixed phantom casualties yet, i wonder when they'll get around to it, losing 3 chevron troops that way really really bites.