How to gain max experience in a battle?

[Maximilianus]

Total war fans,

I sense there is some programming logic that determines when an army unit earns an additional "experience" chevron. It seems to be related to a lot of kills in a battle, a substantial loss, and equivalents to that. However, I would like to know if there are some tactics that will help my units to earn "experience quicker in each battle.

In other words, if I expect to win a battle beforehand, are hence have some lee-way in how I use my troops, are there tactics/orders that increase the chance of getting experience?

Thanks in advance,

[Spartacus_GR]

the longer the fight and the more enemy units they rout and kill,there isnt rly a tactic for it.

[Casius Cherea]

there must be some script for it altough i dont know it but...
it's more likely to gain exp when:
you are outnumbered
you won with low quality unit (especially horse archers are good in earning exp, if i play as parthia for example i have avarage one chevron every two battle for HA unit, i use armies only with HA and generals)

when you expecting to win battle let few of your units do the job and always chase running enemy

[Hanno the Navigator]

there must be some script for it altough i dont know it but...
it's more likely to gain exp when:
you are outnumbered
you won with low quality unit (especially horse archers are good in earning exp, if i play as parthia for example i have avarage one chevron every two battle for HA unit, i use armies only with HA and generals)

when you expecting to win battle let few of your units do the job and always chase running enemy

echo that.

[Ragss]

I think HA earn exp so fast because they spend most of the battle 'shaken' or whatever. If they are always on the verge of routing, but never do, they get lots and lots of experience.

For high quality units, I think the only way to do it is to throw them head first into battle and take a lot of losses, then put them with another unit and repeat.

[Casius Cherea]

another way to get experience is to mix experienced units with unexperienced ones
for example if you got unit with no chevrons that get some losses try to reinforce it with experienced unit
after battle take your most experienced unit and mix it with less experienced ones
but if you have experienced (weapon/armour upgraded) unit with loses and retrain it, it will lose some experience (upgrade), it occurs only when there are many soldiers to retrain, if its only ten or twenty it's ok
and you must know that your troops get more experience in autoresolve battles, i think it's best way to get some chevrons

and question:
do you guys know why in some units chevrons disappear at the battle mod? (they have chevron/s in campaign map and in the beginning of battle they have not)

Hanno the Navigator:
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[Decimus Equitius]

and question:
do you guys know why in some units chevrons disappear at the battle mod? (they have chevron/s in campaign map and in the beginning of battle they have not)

Hanno the Navigator:
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That could happen if your general is has a negative trait on command like useless infantry commander or something to that effect.

AS for speeding up the experience. I can only say kill them all!! I noticed that my cavalry are the ones getting more experience faster because I always continue the battle and use them to chase all the broken units off of the field and kill everyone I can.

[Korinthos Hoplites]

That could happen if your general is has a negative trait on command like useless infantry commander or something to that effect.

AS for speeding up the experience. I can only say kill them all!! I noticed that my cavalry are the ones getting more experience faster because I always continue the battle and use them to chase all the broken units off of the field and kill everyone I can.

Yup, that's the technique(sp?), just kill all routers, preferably with only one of your units.
I get rookie cav, I use them against routers, they become veterans, I use them against flanks, they become elite, I use them head-on. It's my strategy....

I once had a cav unit which earned 3 chevrons in a single battle..... :tooth: