Strange: Changing Weapons / Experience post patch

[powdermonkey]

I've noticed since I installed the patch, that some units weapons and experinece can change of its own accord.

I was playing as the Macedonians, fighting both the Brutii and the Thracians in Thermopylae (sp?).
After a large battle (which I won) I saved the game and left it to play again the following day.
When I loaded it up the next evening, a number of units experience and weapons / armour upgrades had dissapeared. (I had 3 units of light lancers with 3 exp each and a couple of mercenary peltasts with weapons upgrades - after the reload the lancers had exp of 4, 3 and 2 and the weapons upgrades of the peltasts had disappeared.

I didn't get this before the patch - has anyone else noticed this?

[Sinner]

Yes, I've noticed this as well. It seems to occur in circumstances where the unit has suffered heavy casualties, whether healed post-battle or not, so I guess the idea is that their equipment has degraded due to heavy usage. OK, it might be a bug instead, but I don't want to find anymore bugs so I'm going to call this an undocumented neat feature.

[Simetrical]

Equipment and experience seem to be decided on a per-man basis. So if, by dumb luck, the guys with weapon upgrades got killed disproportionately in a battle, the unit may appear to lose weapon upgrades. (However, if you don't merge units, all the soldiers in a unit should have the same quality weapons. XP can vary within a unit naturally, however.)

-Simetrical

[Sinner]

I've had this happen with brand new units in their first battle, so it's not that, there's something else going on behind the scenes.

[ArT II]

I can confirm Sinner. I had just upgraded a unit in the town and it was showing the armor upgrades. In the moment I moved out the armor upgrades desapeared altogether with the experience of the unit. Me neither wants to believe it's a bug..... well looks like one tough.