Build units with higher experience

[Toppopia]

Is there a way to increase the experience of units while they are being trained? Like in HOI3 you could have your soldiers start with higher experience but they took longer to train.

[FnordScored23]

There's no way to train units above experience level 1 before deployment. You'll have to assign them to an army and set the army to exercise mode to gain experience without having them fighting.

[Ás Fífldjarfi]

Yes and no... if you have a stockpile ready, you can build divisions and deploy them before they have finished training, but they perform badly, with a -25 in performance.

If you don't deploy them at once, they train to lvl 2, which gives them no bonus and no penalty. Once they are deployed, you can assign them to an army and let them start exercising, and can level them up to lvl 3 that way. When you do that though, they take attrittion and will lose some equipment.

[Innese]

Edit: Turns out I was wrong about this, my mistake!

In the devision designer there are 3 little buttons up towards the top in the middle-ish area. One is red chevrons, another is a white line, then orange chevrons.

A division with the white line will come out with a normal training time at normal experience (No combat bonus)

A division with the red chevron will train faster but be 'green' experience wise, suffering a 25% penalty in combat

A division with the orange chevrons will take longer to train but some out with a higher experience level, getting a 25% boost to combat.

Edit: Turns out I was wrong about this, my mistake!

[Ás Fífldjarfi]

Originally posted by Innese:

In the devision designer there are 3 little buttons up towards the top in the middle-ish area. One is red chevrons, another is a white line, then orange chevrons.

A division with the white line will come out with a normal training time at normal experience (No combat bonus)

A division with the red chevron will train faster but be 'green' experience wise, suffering a 25% penalty in combat

A division with the orange chevrons will take longer to train but some out with a higher experience level, getting a 25% boost to combat.

I think these chevrons are only for replacement priority... golden chevrons get the first pick of equipment so they will get new guns faster than everyone else, and if you don't have enough guns to go around, they will be give priority to stay at full strenght.

[FnordScored23]

Originally posted by Ás Fífldjarfi:

Yes and no... if you have a stockpile ready, you can build divisions and deploy them before they have finished training, but they perform badly, with a -25 in performance.

If you don't deploy them at once, they train to lvl 2, which gives them no bonus and no penalty. Once they are deployed, you can assign them to an army and let them start exercising, and can level them up to lvl 3 that way. When you do that though, they take attrittion and will lose some equipment.

Yes, I am sorry - Ás Fífldjarfi is absolutely right. I confused 100% training with level 1 experience. But 100% training means level 2.

Immediate deployment of troops means they will have level 1 xp with no xp progress to next level. Deployment with maximum training progress means level 2 with no xp progress to next level. If you need further xp you need to set your army to exercise mode BUT the highest level you can reach with that is level 3 = Regular. Exercise reduces you organisation and consumes equipment BUT even if all your troops have reached level 3 the won't stop to exercise, you'll have to stop it yourself if want to avoid wasting equipment and having low organisation.
The only reason to continue exercising after all troops have reached level 3 is to raise your nations army experience which you need to edit your divisions and create improved variants of existing tank models.

This time I double-checked in-game and wiki, so it's proper information^^

[equinox1911]

Originally posted by Innese:

Edit: Turns out I was wrong about this, my mistake!

♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ i got excited to learn something new about the game :D

But thanks for checking