Aging units

[The Stranger]

In RTW, units definitely got experience by killing others. The only random allocations I've noticed are at the start of the game- you click on "start battle" and immediately one of your units jumps a point. I think that may actually have something to do with experiencing different kinds of batles- ie, because the unit has already fought in a siege and an open battle and is now fighting in a sally, he gets extra experience.

And to be fair, MTW had that horrorible concept of your general's stars adding to units valour (minus the morale)
If you had 6 stars while the enemy has none, you could win the battle with only peasants!

or looses one or two points.

you wont really loose soldiers. the computer will add a new recruit for every old veteran that retires. youll notice only in the chevron drop and the average age of the unit.

[Ciaran]

In MTW, valor and experience are tracked on a per-soldier basis, turn the log option on and you can read the logs for every battle. The stats shown are only the unit average - if you´re unlucky and your single high-valour soldier gets killed by a stray arrow the whole unit seems to lose valor, even though it doesn´t. I don´t know how RTW handles it, to the best of my knowledge there´s no log option, but I strongly suppose it works in a similar fashion, since small units tend to go up in valor way faster than large ones and retraining dilutes valor.

[kataphraktoi]

Real-time strategy is about micromanagement, love it or hate it.

SOme people complain about not enough controls, others, too many controls. Can't make everyone happy can we?