Getting Experience

**Apázlinemjó** · 06-23-2009, 12:56

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** · 06-23-2009, 15:22

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.

**Xurr** · 06-23-2009, 19:07

Originally Posted by 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.

This is true, I've seen this behavior quite often. Unfortunately if your faction is not a phalanx faction you will have a difficult time winning auto resolve vs phalanx using factions. The ai places way too much value on a phalanx when you auto resolve.

**Chris1959** · 06-23-2009, 19:47

Auto-calc distributes experience to all units in a stack, a battle will give most to those units who kill the most, hence missle units often rack up lots of experiance.
Number of battles fought also counts even if a unit may not get to involved.
An exploit you can use is if you choose to retrain only do one unit at a time, and an even worse one is to use an experienced unit to bring others up to strength and then retrain it

**Fluvius Camillus** · 06-23-2009, 20:18

Missile units who evade melee usually get 1 silver chev fast. Other units should kill loads of enemies, while losing as less men as possible.

@Fighting to the death, they die at every hit they get, the damage they deal is the same or little less.

~Fluvius

**Gunzak** · 06-24-2009, 00:44

My general fluctuates between 1 and 2 gold chevrons depending upon how crazy I attack with him. I figure with 8 command stars and the warmonger trait I should run down and kill all who dare turn their backs on me. Typically I never get infantry above 2-3 red chevrons because I prefer to retrain them or after taking a city I just leave them there as a garrison. I do have some with good experience in North Africa because I have used the same men to take 4 cities and win several open battles with them. That isn't typical though.