Experience effects

[Moah]

the porblem is not in the gainng of experience. its in the retraining of units. if u have a 1 man 3 gold chev unit and retrin it all the new men get 3 gold chevrons each. this is why many of the posters assume the experience affects have been modified. and i agree IF it is the reason behind it.

That's not true. While the experience of retrained veteran units doesn't diminish as much as it should, it's not non-existent. My 3 living 1 Gold chevron highland pikemen became a full 1 silver chevron unit. So A loss of 3 xp (but with 3 veterans vs 57 FNGs). Likewise I've seen a couple of units lose 1 or 2 chevrons if under half strength when re-trained. Admittedly it appears that if your veterans are at 2/3 strength the recruits do not dilute experience.

Although there may be more degrees at work. I've seen (when merging NOT re-training) units drop a chevron or two when mixed, but also not. It's as if a 1 silver chevron half unit can be "almost 2 silver chevrons" or "just barely 1 silver chevron". When merged with a half strength 3 bronze chevron unit you can get the result of either full 3 bronze, or full 1 silver - suggesting degrees beyond the visible chevron.