Are you experienced?

[Long lost Caesar]

Back in Rome Total War an army was respected by its experience: if an enemy came down on you with silver or gold chevrons then you simply watched in awe as the battle-hardened veterans killed faster, defended better and even stood up to harsher punishment better than the average 'greenhorn.' so what i want to know is what does experience effect in M2TW? Even though I play Stainless Steel now, even back in vanilla I can't ever remember experience increasing attack or defense skill. Anyone know the point? Cheers

[Rhyfelwyr]

You get +1 attack/defense skill if the unit has any amount of Bronze Chevrons, +2 for silver, and +3 for gold. So the max is +3 of each, as the number of chevrons does not matter, only the colour.

[FactionHeir]

Pretty much.
You also get +1 morale for each chevron.

[Long lost Caesar]

ah well cool, thanks for the responses.

[Rhyfelwyr]

ahh never knew about the extra morale, explains why its worth getting 3 gold chevrons rather than just 1.

[Alpedar]

Does it affect accuracy?
Somewhere i read that yes, somewhere that no.
I did not found it mentioned anywhere in game files, but it can be hardcoded.

My in gane experience is that it improves accy, but I'm not sure (Either it do, or I see what I want to see).

[Yaropolk]

It increases both defense skill and attack

[Mek Simmur al Ragaski]

I tried it out on custom, i forgot to upgrade my units and found that the enemy managed to cut right through my lines even with lowly spearmen, and my heavy infantry had a hard to butchering their sorry asses