to me it doesn't matter; all my units are silver in an army by the time I finish my 3rd campaign.
that's mostly because all my soldiers are used in battle, I use Alex.exe, whose AI trains bigger armies, and I'm a masochist who plays on very hard campaign difficulty (moderate battle of course).
Automatic though normally adds XP more evenlym and numerously than the manual performance of the battle by the average human. that's because humans tend to usually focus on one or two of the three arms in an army, leaving the rest with few kills. and the human usually has enough of his/her leaning arms to spread the kills out, slowing their XP gain somewhat (but its still quite quick).
@ Maestro Ugo: the autowin isn't really "unethical" ifyou use it on a battle you'd win if you played manually.
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