Best Way to Gain Experience

[theburn]

What are the best ways to gain experience for your units? I find that I rarely get units ranked higher than 3-4 chevrons.

[django333]

Good discussion on the subject here.
http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=252699

[LittleCarp]

I don't know if running the Darthmod makes a difference, but I am getting units with starts and 2-3 chevrons without even paying much attention to them.

I won't bother giving special attention to a unit until it has four chevrons, at that point I'll quit retraining it and begin looking for other units to advance in sync with it so I don't end up with one excellent unit amidst ten crappy units. I like to have a fairly even distribution of experience.

But as my post in this discussion states:

Good discussion on the subject here.
http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=252699

once I do begin to give special attention to a unit with experience, I'll raise three units together in experience so that I have the ability to merge them together. It seems to be working. It's gotten me to a NEARLY maxed out Line Infantry.

[Darthey]

Does anyone know how many men a unit needs to kill for each step? I get that it works exponentially, but the other day I had a pair of puckle guns kill over 200 enemy a-piece in a single battle, and only receive 1 chevron for it. Considering these two units took out nearly a third of the enemy on their own I was expecting something a little more substantial.

[Spraetter]

Does anyone know how many men a unit needs to kill for each step? I get that it works exponentially, but the other day I had a pair of puckle guns kill over 200 enemy a-piece in a single battle, and only receive 1 chevron for it. Considering these two units took out nearly a third of the enemy on their own I was expecting something a little more substantial.

First Chevron: 70 kills
Second Chevron: 300 kills
Third Chevron: 600 kills
Fourth Chevron: 1000 kills
Fifth Chevron: 1500 kills
Sixth Chevron: 2100 kills

Taken from the db files in patch.pack

[django333]

Six chevrons would equal 1 star 2 chevrons correct?

[anonymous_joe]

First Chevron: 70 kills
Second Chevron: 300 kills
Third Chevron: 600 kills
Fourth Chevron: 1000 kills
Fifth Chevron: 1500 kills
Sixth Chevron: 2100 kills

Taken from the db files in patch.pack

Is that in one battle or does it build up from battle to battle?

[Darthey]

First Chevron: 70 kills
Second Chevron: 300 kills
Third Chevron: 600 kills
Fourth Chevron: 1000 kills
Fifth Chevron: 1500 kills
Sixth Chevron: 2100 kills

Taken from the db files in patch.pack

Brilliant. Do you know the effect that casulties have on those figures? For example, if a unit were to take a 25% casualty rate per-battle and re-train, would it require 750 kills for that third chevron?

[django333]

I don't know if running the Darthmod makes a difference, but I am getting units with starts and 2-3 chevrons without even paying much attention to them.

I won't bother giving special attention to a unit until it has four chevrons, at that point I'll quit retraining it and begin looking for other units to advance in sync with it so I don't end up with one excellent unit amidst ten crappy units. I like to have a fairly even distribution of experience.

But as my post in this discussion states:



once I do begin to give special attention to a unit with experience, I'll raise three units together in experience so that I have the ability to merge them together. It seems to be working. It's gotten me to a NEARLY maxed out Line Infantry.

I think Darthmod makes it slightly easier to gain exp. but nothing drastic. Once you gain that first star it slows way down. I think the most imprtant factor in gaining experience is the retraining and merging. If you don't pay close attention to what unit you retrain and what units you merge you will lose chevrons. Before retraining and merging always save in case you screw anything up. When merging always try to merge units with the same experience. If you do this they should almost always retain their experience. However, you want to make sure that one unit isn't depleted below 50% strength by merging because then they are much more likely to lose chevrons from retraining. The same goes for straight retraining. If at all possible retrain units before they get below 50% strength. Now 50% strength isn't a definite line in the sand but it is a good medium to pay attention to. If you just quickly merge all your units and then retrain whatever is left you will have a hard time getting that first star with any unit.

[akinkhoo]

kills. and the easier way is to cut down fleeing units.

and you must do it without losing too many men since it will affect your experience if you retrain.

[Skeleton Of The West]

to gain experience, your units need to kill a lot of men, and lose few men as possible.

[Darthey]

Sounds great in theory, but rather tricky in practise.

Despite being near the end of my grand campaign I don't think I've any units above 3 bars. The ones that get that high generally have so few left in the unit that training takes them back down to 1 or 2 again. Merging helps keep it up, but still the trade-off seems to be having a few units with high experience and the rest low, rather then a good level of experience throughout.

I can fight an indian army and rout the enemy for 2-1 losses or better, but gaining experience that way seems to take an age and a day.

[Major Inconvenience]

Getting above 3 or 4 chevrons seems to take ages, but I read somewhere on here the number of kills you need, and it goes up massively for each step.

I do spend a fair bit of time when combining units to make sure I always keep the highest number of chevrons though, its always worth a quick think before you just chuck units together to make sure the more experience unit is the larger one before you merge them.

[Spraetter]

I took a look in the game db files and it seems that to reach level six, from level five, the unit has to kill 2500 enemies. O_o