Getting Experience

[Fluvius Camillus]

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]

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.

[Cute Wolf]

favourite unit:
9 chevroned Sphendonetai from hell and 9 chevroned Hippakontistai of Death!!!

[Xurr]

favourite unit:
9 chevroned Sphendonetai from hell and 9 chevroned Hippakontistai of Death!!!

I have an 8 chevron pedites extraordinarii. It seriously chews through other elite heavy armor units like butter. I've seen it destroy gold chevon Somatophylakes Strategou and take few casualties while doing so.

[Aemilius Paulus]

My sligners, especially the Rhodian ones, get about one experience every relatively large battle while suffering no casualties. It is quite common for me to win battles with less than 5 casualties due to the slingers and pikes I employ. Unless I am heavily outnumbered and outclassed, I will not suffer more than 30 casualties per battle. I am very careful and cautious in all the wargames I play. Unlike in RL, that actually pays off.

By now, my slingers have two-three silver chevrons and fought only about less than fifteen battles of varying size. My generals all have at least two silver chevrons, but going beyond that is quite difficult.

[Conradus]

My cavalry always manages to get into the silver chevrons fairly quickly. The hammer and anvil tactic and the running down of routers gives them enough xp. The rest of my army is quite lacking that xp however :s

[Celtic_Punk]

same here. I use my general as my main killing force. Most of the rest pin. Once I push an advantage I envelope with infantry and gut any routers with cavalry.