Experience

[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.

[ByzantineKnight]

Whenever my units come across bad odds e.g. fighting 3-4 unit at the same time they get more experence, ive even had one of my Family Members get another one by charging 2 peltasts (before they had even engaged the enemy).

[Serpent]

Usually when im playing julii there is lots of rebels in northern Italy. So if you see 2 Peasant units take 1 cavalry unit and have a big party whit their flesh.

If you see 7 peasant units take 1good cavalry unit and do the same. Soon you will have lots of good cavalry units.

Ambushes are also good way to increase your experience. I really dont know why but I have seen multiple times that even whit my virgin units in their first battle they tend to get 2 experience points during ambush.

Also it should be said that size cap between your and enemy unit also has major efekt. So if your unit has only 12 soldiers left it tends to get easier expirience. So dont get too often retraining your units if you want them whit high expirience levels.Just dont get them killed for good because of this.