Leader and Unit Experience

[Straight Arrow]

What effect does gaining an experience level have on a leader?

Do their Offensive and Defensive ratings increase with each level gained?


And how does gaining an experience level effect a unit?


Lastly, as in AJE, is it possible to lose experience points?

[Gray Fox]

Here is the link for AACW, which I believe still applies:

http://www.ageod.net/aacwwiki/Experience

I believe a unit that has taken casualties loses some experience when it takes on replacements.

[Cardinal Ape]

One thing not mentioned in that wiki is that when you promote a general they lose half their experience.

[Rod Smart]

Every experience star ads a level to either offense or defense. With defense being the first one raised. Eventually their strategic rating increases as well. Someone on the board once said every three stars, but it my experience it goes up faster than that (I once got Freemont to a 6, and there are not 12 stars available)

Experience makes a unit fight better. Experience can promote a militia to conscript, volunteer to line infantry, and conscript to regular. I think after two stars, and then they are reset to zero stars.

Units lose experience points when promoted. Based on my play (and getting units down to zero effectiveness multiple times), I do not thing they lose experience points when they get replacements.

Generals lose some experience when promoted. They also can lose their ratings, if they were historically worse as Army commanders than Division commanders, like Hood.

[FightingBuckeye]

You got Fremont to a six strategic rating? Impressive if so. You didn't have him as a corps commander under a great general like Grant did you? I currently have Butler at a 4-2-3 simply for being under Grant's leadership and Butler has zero experience.

[Rod Smart]

You got Fremont to a six strategic rating? Impressive if so. You didn't have him as a corps commander under a great general like Grant did you? I currently have Butler at a 4-2-3 simply for being under Grant's leadership and Butler has zero experience.

I turned Cairo into Verdun.

Army command in the West. In early '61, I used my limited resources to secure Missouri. The south used what they had to march up the Mississippi and take Cairo. For the next two years, I fought a battle almost every turn. I had enough to get back into Cairo, but not enough to stay and secure both Cairo and Metropolis. The South had enough to constantly take back Cairo, but not enough to push north and take my depots, which gave Fremont a base for supplies and reinforcements.

And that's how I learned about building experience. By turning the worst general in the game into a beast.