Units Lose Experience ????

**Bob The Fearless** · November 19, 2007, 02:07 AM

Last night had a small skirmish with the French to find that a unit of Billmen lost an experience chevron :hmmm:

How can units lose experience ???????

Anyone else seen or can explain this

Thanks in advance

**Space Voyager** · November 19, 2007, 02:19 AM

When soldiers with higher experience than the average in the unit die the average lowers.

You need to know that TW tracks experience PER SOLDIER, not per unit. The chevrons are an average of the unit's soldiers.

**vonKrysiak** · November 19, 2007, 03:14 AM

That is true, basically if you lose a lot of soldiers in one battle and dont kill enough to earn enough experience to "cover" the loses you will lose experience as a result!

**Space Voyager** · November 19, 2007, 04:56 AM

Originally Posted by vonKrysiak

That is true, basically if you lose a lot of soldiers in one battle and dont kill enough to earn enough experience to "cover" the loses you will lose experience as a result!

You will not lose any experience. It's not a loss, just the average is lower. Sadly you lost some experienced soldiers though.

**Bob The Fearless** · November 19, 2007, 05:17 AM

Hi Guys,

Thanks for the info.

I need to check as they were in a supporting role but I didn't think they had lost any men. I'm probabley wrong but I'll let you know.

**vonKrysiak** · November 19, 2007, 11:17 AM

Originally Posted by Space Voyager

You will not lose any experience. It's not a loss, just the average is lower. Sadly you lost some experienced soldiers though.

Yup, you are right Space Voyager and that is exactly what I meant - I just didn't put it in right words

Either way, when you lose more experienced soldiers your units "loses" the chevron due to the average getting lower...

**Bob The Fearless** · November 20, 2007, 07:07 AM

Checked this out last night and yes the unit did take losses during the battle.

However it only lost 6 men out of a full complement of 60. The unit has been retrained once and was down to about 30 men when that occurred.

I find it a bit harsh, but as you say if six hard nuts had been killed I suppose it would make all the difference.

Cheers for your help

**vonKrysiak** · November 20, 2007, 09:06 AM

Originally Posted by Bob The Fearless

Checked this out last night and yes the unit did take losses during the battle.

However it only lost 6 men out of a full complement of 60. The unit has been retrained once and was down to about 30 men when that occurred.

I find it a bit harsh, but as you say if six hard nuts had been killed I suppose it would make all the difference.

Cheers for your help

Then you have to remember that if you lost only six soldiers and lost a chevron it also means that your really close to getting it back