RE: Valor

Remember that valor is calculated for each individual man in a unit. The number you see on the unit card is actually an average of the individual men. Keep this in mind when you're reforming units after a battle. I always turn off the "tidy up units" option (you get to it by clicking the arrow to the right of your minimap in the campaign screen) because the a.i. will always screw you when it reorganizes your army. If you have units that survived a battle, but took a lot of casualties, then chances are they gained a lot of valor too. If you combine these high valor units with each other instead of with green troops, then you concentrate your experienced troops which creates elite units. Just remember that if a unit is sitting in a stack led by a good general, it will show higher valor than a unit that's in a stack without a good general. Until you get used to compensating for this, try taking the generals out of the stacks while you re-organize the armies after a battle.