Quote Originally Posted by Peasant Phill View Post
Nobody seems to have mentioned unit size as a contributing factor. I first started playing with small units which needed a lot of battles to earn even one chevron (unless the unit was almost completly depleted). Now i play with large units and I have a 2 chevron unit (half depleted though) already after only 3 battles. Almost every unit that goes one-on-one with a enemy unit until it (enemy unit) routs seems to earn there first chevron.
But I suppose there must be some scaling built in. The fact that depleated units gain experience faster suggests that. I suspect, on larger unit sizes it's simply easier to get higher average kills for "each bullet fired" since the troops are firing into denser crowds.