Experience

[Spart]

Hello all you gamers out there. I recently had five units of hastati with three silver chevrons and two with one gold chevron. I do not know how I got them to have such a high experience level so quickly. That being said now my Marian reforms have kicked in and I have to restart my units from no chevrons. Please tell me how to gain experiance, because I really hate it when the gauls, germanic tribes and Britons have untis with silver chevrons and my poor Julii have little to none experince

[IRONxMortlock]

I'm also only new to the game but I've found that the Brutii can build temples to mars which provide units 1, 2 or 3 chevrons of experience as soon as they are constructed where a temple is built.

Overall however I have no idea how experience points are dished out after battles. I've had units perform brilliantly and literally save the day yet another unit which did very little in the battle received exerience. The only thing that seems to make a difference IMO is how well you win the battle; i.e. in cases of "heroic victories" I find that more experience points are given than in the case of a "clear victory".

In any case, use those gold Hastii as much as you can, I find them be as deadly as noob earily legionaries or even legionary cohorts if they have 2 or 3 gold chevs!

[x-dANGEr]

Mostly, it is the quality of the men that unit kills.. Also, one thing to keep in mind is that each man in a unit has his own experience rate. So, if one man kills like around 1000 denarii in one battle, he might get a lot of experience, but the unit will still show the same.

P.S.

Check Ludus Magna for detailed info.

[bedlam28]

Hi Spart,

I've only been playing for about 1 year, but using Britannia I got very strong, very quick by using certain tactics against the Gauls (obviously different tactics for different enemies )

Gaining experience on the battlefield seems to be from different issues:
your whole army can get more experience from a massive victory over a larger army, especially your General, which is obvious:

But each unit can gain from its own personal battles usually from defeating a stronger unit - using 2 units to hit from the front and back ( alternating rather than at once so only one unit is actually fighting) works wonders, or being lucky and attacking a unit just before it routs; using horse to shock attack the back of a fighting unit also works wonders; routing units or decimating but with skill rather than strength is the aim - no point wiping out peasants with your Heavy Infantry ( except for the fun of it).

If the bar at the beginning of a battle showing the chance of victory is against you, and your expected to lose and through your genius leadership kick some arse; thats what its all about!

Good luck!!

[bedlam28]

oh and one other thing, if you lose all but a few in a unit that has chevrons, DONT join them to a unit that has none as they can all lose the chevrons. Instead wait till you can get to a city and retrain them.

However if you have 5 or something with no chevrons, you can merge them with a high chevron - nearly full unit and they will gain the chevrons of that unit.

Just a tit bit of info i hope you find useful.

[Severous]

I believe:

- Each soldier has his own experience
- It is increased by killing enemy...any enemy (except dogs)
- Each kill is worth the same. Quality of enemy doesnt matter.
- Router kill are worth 1/5th of non router kills
- Gaining levels gets harder. More kills needed for each level.

Merging units:

- I use my best troops to top up understrength units
- leaving small units of good troops which I retrain
- The retraining usually brings in new troops at the same exp as the good unit just retrained.
- Thus exp goes up quickly overall as all replacements via retraining come in at the highest exp level.