Still think soldiers are rated on individual basis like in STW, when we get the logfiles back in the patch we'll know for sure.

So when repairing units shouldn't it be that the new troops have the lower valor and the old ones have what they had so the overall average may be lower? - again the logfile will answer this I guess. Didn't play enough MI/WE to know how it worked in STW.

Brings up the combining units magic wand too - in STW depending on how you did it (think its landing on the unit to convert) you could make no shield guys into gold shield guys this way if you had an understrength gold shield guy and an understrength no shield.
At least the logfiles would tell you this.