Dramatic loss of FM experience following victory...???!!!

**A Very Super Market** · 04-28-2009, 04:10

What unit size are you playing at? It is probably because you lost a bunch of experienced bodyguards.

**Tarkus** · 04-28-2009, 04:17

Originally Posted by A Very Super Market

What unit size are you playing at? It is probably because you lost a bunch of experienced bodyguards.

I'm playing with Large unit size. My FM went into the battle with just under 40 horse and, as I said, lost 14. A fairly hefty set of casualties, to be sure, but didn't seem to be THAT bad!

**antisocialmunky** · 04-28-2009, 04:52

All the experiences guys tend to be in the front rank since they do the most combat. Its a little bit silly but its how CA did it.

**Tarkus** · 04-28-2009, 05:06

Originally Posted by antisocialmunky

All the experiences guys tend to be in the front rank since they do the most combat. Its a little bit silly but its how CA did it.

Are you saying that change in a unit's experience is not just a function of the activity of the unit as a whole, but is instead at least partly determined by the activities of specific individuals within a unit?

**seienchin** · 04-28-2009, 05:22

I had this as bactria too. But in my case a newly adopted general had 9 Experience, which he lost in the first battle.
There is no explanation like he lost his most experienced men. Just doesnt work. Your general lost like one third of his men, but more than 85% of its experience. Doesnt work out mathematicly. Even if all your experienced ones died, you couldnt have made it to 9 gold chevs, if the rest would still be level 1.

**bobbin** · 04-28-2009, 08:39

There's a bug that causes generals to get 9 chevrons if they have 0 chevrons and get the starving trait, it gives them a -1 bodyguard valour which for some reason makes the experience level go past 0 and end up at level 9.
This might be what happened, never seen it change in the post battle screen before though.

**Megas Methuselah** · 04-28-2009, 08:45

Originally Posted by bobbin

There's a bug that causes generals to get 9 chevrons if they have 0 chevrons and get the starving trait, it gives them a -1 bodyguard valour which for some reason makes the experience level go past 0 and end up at level 9.
This might be what happened, never seen it change in the post battle screen before though.

Starving trait?

EDIT: Oh, nvm.

**Tarkus** · 04-28-2009, 20:02

Originally Posted by bobbin

There's a bug that causes generals to get 9 chevrons if they have 0 chevrons and get the starving trait, it gives them a -1 bodyguard valour which for some reason makes the experience level go past 0 and end up at level 9.
This might be what happened, never seen it change in the post battle screen before though.

Interesting, bobbin...I do remember that he was in fact starving, so it looks like you may have nailed the explanation -- on the other hand, I'm pretty confident he had more than 0 chevrons as he already had 3 command stars by the time of the battle in question and had fought in more than a few previous engagements against the Saka.

An odd bug to be sure -- I assume it's been reported to the community at large?