Experience

[Medkirtys]

As the title says, what does experience do, apart from increasing attack every 3 chevrons, and increasing artillery accuracy

[RabidSheepLegion]

increases morale too I think... people who know the descr and export files will be able to tell you alot more tho i bet

[Gogolometro]

Stronger morale.

[RabidSheepLegion]

you'd think it would increase defense skill too, not defense in general but the skill that makes it up along with armour and shield

[Paladin94610]

Higher Exp. makes
1) Higher morale
2) Better Defense Skill
3) Better Attack Skill

If the unit is ranged type,
4) Higher accuracy

Note that 2) and 3) are just for melee stuff and don't effect the missile attack.

3) doesn't involves with CHARGE bonus. It will remain the same. Only secondary weapon att. alters.

[Medkirtys]

Higher Exp. makes
1) Higher morale
2) Better Defense Skill
3) Better Attack Skill

If the unit is ranged type,
4) Higher accuracy

Note that 2) and 3) are just for melee stuff and don't effect the missile attack.

3) doesn't involves with CHARGE bonus. It will remain the same. Only secondary weapon att. alters.

I didn't notice defense skill increase

[SoulBlade]

In Kingdoms it increases attack value. I am not sure about the morale
About missiles - no one proved that it increases accuracy. So it is still a myth.

[vtec.dominion]

I found my 3 gold chevrons Fari Cavalry get 20-30% more kills than the same 3 bronze unit.
So, i guess experience increase accuracy.

[napoleonic]

it does not increase defense skill in RC system.

[SoulBlade]

Not RC buddy, just a change Kingdoms made. In Med2 (Vanilla) experience also increased defence, now (in SS) it doesn't.

[Ishan]

Not RC buddy, just a change Kingdoms made. In Med2 (Vanilla) experience also increased defence, now (in SS) it doesn't.

Yes that is correct defense skill is removed in kingdoms.exe and this change is hard-coded.

[iksterminator]

It seems that experience doesn't matter much any more

[Ichon]

The lower the tier the unit the more experience matters. Get a 9 xp peasant unit and you will be pleasantly surprised how much damage they can soak up and return. Especially on lose formation they are great at absorbing charges. Same with other low tier units you notice more difference as it is a bigger proportional change to ad +3 attack and more morale to a unit that is low in both compared to an elite unit.

As for accuracy increase based on xp... I'm not entirely convinced it is real but lots of experienced players have told me so maybe there is a slight increase. I don't believe it is very much though.

[RabidSheepLegion]

acc with guns def increases if enemy closer, try it against pikes on a river with ur men 3 ranks deep

[Mightypeon]

Hi,

I would like to have some ramblings about experience:

From what I observe, weak units (like Urban Spear Militias) profit much more from experience than stronger units.
F.E. the first experience level increases the mellee attack by a full 1. In the case of Urban Spear militia, this is a 100% increase. For a Canon of the Holy Sepulchre, the increase is from 10 to 11 and therefor much less pronounced.

It also appears that the next attack upgrades come at the first silver and the first Gold Chevron.

So, what is the actual difference between a 1 Bronze Spearmen and a 2 Bronze Chevron Spearmen?
Morale?
Stamina?
And if yes how much?

[bɑne]

Here are some ramblings after a short forum search. Topics merged.

[teks]

thanks bane.

I was a little mad when I noticed that defense skill no longer went up.

IF I had access to the game I would try sending a gold chev archer against an inexperience. note the results, and repeat over. Not too hard to prove.

The lower tier thing is so so true, so when you get a swordsmen guild use it to train up every militia in your empire. It will boost your empire-wide defense significantly!

[Disregard]

Artillery units take forever to gain experience, without any chevrons they are utterly inaccurate and useless... Its a joke.

[WelshDragon]

Artillery units take forever to gain experience, without any chevrons they are utterly inaccurate and useless... Its a joke.

I would respectfully disagree. I have gotten freshly recruited trebuchet and mangronel units up to 2-3 bronze from 1 battle several times. A few lucky hits into massed enemy formations can kill a LOT of enemy troops.