Getting Experience

[Blxz]

I have been reading these forums for a while and notice lots of people talking about their army experience levels (chevrons). I am lucky if I can ever get a unit into the silver chevrons and most (90% or more) don't go above 2 bronze chevrons. How do you guys get those amounts? Especially with close combat units who tend to die in....combat.

Any pointers for getting more experience and things to avoid maybe?

[satalexton]

win battles with as little casualties as possible, then replace the casualties asap... hopefully the new guys don't dilute the unit's overall exp.

[HunGeneral]

Well units get exp from killing enemy units (killing routing troopers only gives about 1/4 of the value for killing troopers still fighting). As said before you should avoid loses aswell - reatraining ads raw recruits to your forces who take down the average expereicen of the unit.

In my experience the best units to get exp are horse archers since they sometimes manage to kill an entire unit whitout routing them so they get the max out of every soldier.

For melee units: keep the safe or use Phalanxes (although most of the time they tire and pin down the enemy rather then kill them. I suspect hard dying units like Gaesatae should be able to get some exp in melee, but I'm not sure...

[Zim]

Does anyone know how much xp soldiers "fighting to the death" are worth? I notice they don't fight as well as troops that haven't hit the routing mark... Wasn't sure if they counted as fighting or routing troops for experience.

[Darius]

They're still counted as routed, they just don't have anywhere to rout to.

[Apázlinemjó]

With Romans, it's quite easy to get chevrons against barbarians. Manipular formation and guard mode will help here. After a few battles your Hastatis and Principes will gain silver chevrons.

[Darius]

Oddly enough, auto-resolving battles seems to get you chevrons far faster than you would if you commanded the battle yourself. Don't know why, and it may just be my imagination, but I doubt it.