manual not clear on unit feats

[VladK02]

Please someone clarify -

Do unit feats like priests stack? Putting lets say 3x syndic priest in a unit? I cant tell, honestly.

Unit has lets say 8x infantry, 2x arty. Does that priest give bonus to both inf and arty? Or only infantry? it says - it can embed maximum with 3 sub-units - what does that mean, exactly? Does that priest spread effect to other stacks fighting in same hex? If I have infantry battallin fighting alongside some tanks, say - priest buffs all, or just the unit its embedded with?

How many feats can a battallion have? I keep adding priests, lances, medics, political trucks, AI swarms, killer droids..... All to my main FIST brigade - something like 36x mechanized infantry. Is there a max limit? So far, I havent hit one, but I cant tell...

[cranky corvid]

Unit feats randomly pick subunits from within their unit to embed with, up to their max. They provide their benefits to the subunits they're embedded with (and may be lost if those are killed). Additional copies of the same unit feat embed with additional subunits. An unit may have up to as many unit feats as it has subunits.

[VladK02]

Originally posted by cranky corvid:

Unit feats randomly pick subunits from within their unit to embed with, up to their max. They provide their benefits to the subunits they're embedded with (and may be lost if those are killed). Additional copies of the same unit feat embed with additional subunits. An unit may have up to as many unit feats as it has subunits.

So, what exactly is a subunit? I have 36x mechanized infantry in APCs. Thats 2 subunits. OK. That infntry and APC is further split by combat exp - 8 infantry is veteran with 36exp, 7 APCs is green with 50exp....etc. etc. Then half of APC's are APC II and other half is APC III model type. So, My screen is filled with various sub-sub-sub units. How many actual sub-units do I have? Its not 2, since I have like 10 feats attached and game hasnt stopped me. Is it as many sub-units as I have based on actual icons in my unit management window? What happens when those sub-units all progress to max exp / rank, and merge again? Then what happens to attached feats?

Interesting questions.

Look here

https://gyazo.com/ef9c04db4d0e8de759f9863d50753a3b

According to the screenshot, from my 36x mechanized infantry batallion (2 sub-units), in reality I have 5 subunits. Infantry and 4 types of APCs.

But I have 7 feats attached. Game hasnt stopped me.

I just did a test, I attached 2 different priests to a fresh unit with only 1 sub-unit. Game did not say no. So.... there is no limit?

https://gyazo.com/bbecd81bf0455e3e8729b7993e08d16a

[Thomas]

Each 100-mens and 10-vechicle is one sub-unit to which feat can assign itself (some feats can assign themselves to more than one sub-unit) - the easiest way to see it on battle screen - on sub-unit icon you will see extra feat-unit icon. And I think each sub-unit can receive bonus from different feat units at the same time - so that GR-Shield will get bonus from both priests.

EDIT: There is limit how many times you can assigne the same feat-unit to given formation. It shows when you hover over feat-unit.

[cranky corvid]

Originally posted by Thomas:

EDIT: There is limit how many times you can assigne the same feat-unit to given formation. It shows when you hover over feat-unit.

I think this might only apply to unit feats that spawn automatically based on regime profiles and maybe ones from events. I don't recall being limited by it when manually assigning unit feats.

[VladK02]

Wait wait wait...

A sub-unit is a tiny 100-man icon?

So for my stack of doom for make benefit glorious nation of kazakh-empire, I would need dozens of priests and artifact lances, not just one?

Well, that sucks.

To be fair, i was thinking, artifact AI wasps for example, +400 was it, soft attack to unit? A bit overpowered if bonus applied across entire formation or regiment...

Also to be fair, im practically swimming in all sorts of artifacts. My current planet is basically a third ruins - literally, planet generator went extreme for me. Extreme lucky :) Wont take me long to farm another 10-20 wasps.

There should be auto-apply feat button.