How do I merge two units of the same type into one?

**Arkatreides** · 06-02-2007, 17:04

There is one case where this doesn't work and that is if you have one unit of mercenary and one of non-mercenary troops of the same type (they sometimes have the exact same unit icon but are actually two different units (internally)). That might be the problem you are experiencing.

**keravnos** · 06-03-2007, 14:52

Yes, this is a known problem we are currently working on, aka the Merc units' UIs need to be discernable from the regular ones.

Oh, and welcome to the forum, too!

**Alasdair** · 06-03-2007, 15:53

im a newb too, so i was wondering if your units will lose their experience if they do this, or will experience merge, or will the highest experience be kept or the lowest?

**Bonny** · 06-03-2007, 16:20

im a newb too, so i was wondering if your units will lose their experience if they do this, or will experience merge, or will the highest experience be kept or the lowest?

the expierience will change, but i don't know the details..

**Arkatreides** · 06-03-2007, 16:21

Originally Posted by Alasdair

im a newb too, so i was wondering if your units will lose their experience if they do this, or will experience merge, or will the highest experience be kept or the lowest?

Experience is stored on a per soldier basis, so merging two units with different experience levels will create a new unit with average experience.

**Sygrod** · 06-04-2007, 00:35

I have successfully used the merging to actually increase experience.

What I do is drag the the unit with highest experience onto a damaged unit of lesser quality. Sometimes one or even both will jump a level. Take the high experience unit and top up in a city and the chevrons stay in place.

**Obelics** · 06-04-2007, 00:54

Originally Posted by Sygrod

I have successfully used the merging to actually increse experience.

What I do is drag the the unit with highest experience onto a damaged unit of lesser quality. Sometimes one or even both will jump a level. Take the high experience unit and top up in a city and the chevrons stay in place.

well this is just the appearence, in reality nothing has changed, the units experience is based on the single men as sayd above.
In fact:

suppose you have this 2 units, one of 80 men and one of 40 men:

1) 80 men unit with 2 silver chevrons average (40 has 3 bronze chevrons and 40 has 1 gold chevron=2 silver chevrons average)
2) 40 men unit with 1 bronze chevrons

now you merge your 80 unit 1) in to your 40 unit 2).

it can occur you will obtain:

1) 40 unit with 1 gold chevron (has gained 2 chevrons!)
2) 80 unit with 2 bronze chevrons (has gained 1 chevron!)

it has happened that the 2 units has gained some chevrons, but why?
simple:

you could have copied just your 40 unit with 3 bronze chevrons from 1) in to your 40 unit with 1 bronze chevrons 2), so the unit you obtained has 2 bronze chevrons average
the remaining 40 men unit 1) has only units with 1 gold chevron, so apparently both have gained chevrons

the reality is that nothing has changed as you can see... only a different combination.

**Centurio Nixalsverdrus** · 06-04-2007, 03:11

Yeah, but what's up in battles? Does it still calculates every single man, or just the average? And when it calculates every man, where are they placed? The best to the front, or what?