Unit Experience

**Paul Peru** · 10-14-2004, 07:51

Hmm... My edit didn't work. I'll try upping my post count instead.

Perhaps I shouldn't have used the

**Paul Peru** · 10-14-2004, 07:52

Yup, that's it.
Will I get the same effect if I use >>>>>>>>?

**Paul Peru** · 10-14-2004, 08:03

All righty, then!
Sorry for spamming.
I tried to denote the experience level of my units, and didn't think of the havoc starting som many html-tags in a row would wreak. ;-)

Anyway... where was I? Ah! Narbo Martius!
Played some more yesterday, and noticed

1. again. pre-battle I had 3 units of TW, each with one gold >. During the battle, 2 of them went down to 4 silver >. After the battle, all were back up to 1 gold.

2. Once more, experience was gained from auto resolving, not from the battles I commanded myself.

3. (Which went missing from my original post) In my experience merging works like in MTW, while retraining seems to recruit new blokes with the same experience as the battle-hardened veterans you have left.

Since I found out how to exploit the powerful combination of auto-resolving and retraining, my fleet has been fighting a lot of unnecessary battles against feeble enemies ;-)

**andrewt** · 10-14-2004, 09:18

Retraining doesn't seem to reduce the number of chevrons in a unit. It gets more expensive, however.

**MonkeyMan** · 10-14-2004, 09:44

Originally Posted by andrewt

Retraining doesn't seem to reduce the number of chevrons in a unit. It gets more expensive, however.

I'm thinking this particular part is a feature rather than something wrong or unintentional, i kind of like the idea that your battle hardened vets would perhaps do the unit training themselves and pass on what they have learned to newer recruits (at a price of course).

1. again. pre-battle I had 3 units of TW, each with one gold >. During the battle, 2 of them went down to 4 silver >. After the battle, all were back up to 1 gold.

Has anyone else noticed this yet? You do have to pay close attention to unit experience to notice it.

**Magraev** · 10-14-2004, 10:23

You're actually pointing out a possible bug.

When you autoresolve the units get more experience! This is rather unfair and tends to favor the ai since most of it's battles will be autoresolved.

I've noticed that autoresolves seem to generate more experience too. Has anybody else??

**Paul Peru** · 10-14-2004, 11:26

Originally Posted by MonkeyMan

I'm thinking this particular part is a feature rather than something wrong or unintentional, i kind of like the idea that your battle hardened vets would perhaps do the unit training themselves and pass on what they have learned to newer recruits (at a price of course).

I agree. It's not a bad thing to be able to get very experienced units in this way. In MTW retraining is mostly to get equipment upgrades, imo., as the valour gets spread pretty thin when you retrain the 20 guys who survived holding a bridge against overwhelming enemy numbers. (I play disadvantaged eastern factions a lot.)

The advantage of auto-resolving is probably a bug. Anyway it should be fixed.

PS
My inferior vocab has contributed to this thread being polluted. Hereafter I know to use the word "exxon". Sorry - "chevron".

**Spuddicus** · 10-14-2004, 13:24

Originally Posted by MonkeyMan

I'm thinking this particular part is a feature rather than something wrong or unintentional, i kind of like the idea that your battle hardened vets would perhaps do the unit training themselves and pass on what they have learned to newer recruits (at a price of course).
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I look at this as a definite improvement over MTW.
I used to end up with many weakened units with high valor; afraid to retrain and didn't want to disband either (those high valor units, especially chivalric knights, frequently turned the tide of battle).
I find this aspect in RTW to be much easier to manage.

**Ulstan** · 10-14-2004, 22:08

All right, it's definitely far too hard to earn experience in non auto resolve battles.

I fight one battle. I am outnumbered badly. I utterly crush the opponents forces, slaying all but 4 men.

Not a single unit of mine gains experience. Not the hastati that lost 4 men and killed hundreds, not the hastati that lost 80% of their strength and killed hundreds.

I reload.

I auto resolve the same battle.

It's a 'CLEAR DEFEAT'.

Oh but wait! THREE QUARTERS of my army gained an experience level.