Military Experience

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Military Experience
The yellow-black horizontal bar divided by white lines is the experience bar. The bar shows the amount of experience and attack/defense bonuses.

Military experience (or shortened to Military or Unit EXP) is a military mechanic used to strengthen or weaken attack and defense bonuses for military units. Every division has an experience bar, which is divided into 5 ranks: Clover, Regular, Trained, Seasoned, and Veteran, with ranks being promoted or demoted through manipulating the amount of experience from various sources such as combat, sieging cities, political leaders, military leaders, standard training, doctrines, formable modifiers, conscription laws, and more.

When units with conflicting experience merge, they collectively consolidate their experience into one, making the action irreversible.

Military Experience Ranks/Modifiers

The default military rank for newly recruited units (without external modifiers) is Regular, beginning at 75 military experience. However, home guard(s) begin with the Trained rank, starting with 125 experience.

Military Experience Ranks/Modifiers
Military Experience Ranks Each unit has an icon above them that indicates its military experience rank. Rank Experience Attack/Defense Bonus Icon Clover 0 -100% - -40% Regular 60 -40% - 0% Trained 100 0% - +50% Seasoned 150 +50% - +150% Veteran 250 - 300 +150% - +250%
Military Doctrines Ground/Army Doctrines Doctrine Doctrine Branch Unit Experience Gain/Loss Attack/Defense Change Massed Attack Massed Attack Infantry -25% -75% People's Army Massed Attack Infantry -48.75% -146.25% Adaptability Specialization Infantry +50% +150% Adaptability Specialization Ground +10% +30% Advanced Training Specialization Infantry +172.5% +517.5% Advanced Training Specialization Ground +15% +45% Steel Division Manoeuvre Warfare Tank +40% +120% Naval Doctrines Doctrine Doctrine Branch Unit Experience Gain/Loss Attack/Defense Change Wolfpack Tactics Submarine Warfare Submarine +30% +90% Fast Attacks Light Flotilla Frigate +40% +120% Hunter Killers Light Flotilla Destroyer +25% +75% Floating Fortress Grand Fleet Battleship +30% +90% Force Projection Grand Fleet Aircraft Carrier +30% +90% Aerial Doctrines Doctrine Doctrine Branch Unit Experience Gain/Loss Attack/Defense Change Special Training Special Training Air +10% +30% TOPGUN Special Training Fighter +30% +90% Close Air Support Special Training Attacker +30% +90% Mass Formations Special Training Bomber +30% +90% Inter-Service Coordination Special Training Air +10% +30%
Conscription Laws Conscription Laws affect every units' experience in the military, from the army, navy, to the air. Conscription Law Experience Loss Attack/Defense Change Limited -10% -30% Extensive -30% -90% Required -50% -150%
National Modifiers The sole national modifier that downgrades starting military experience, Disarmament, applies to all units in the military. Conscription Law Experience Loss Attack/Defense Change Disarmament -50% -150%
Formable Modifiers Formable Modifier Formable Unit Category Experience Gain/Loss Attack/Defense Change The Imperial Century British Empire Navy +25% +75% Innovations of Napoleonic Napoleonic Empire All Units -20% -60% The Unrivaled Might of Persia Persian Empire Infantry +25% +75% The Heritage of the Romans Roman Empire Infantry +25% +75% The Heritage of the Romans Roman Empire Navy -30% -90% The Sublime Porte Ottoman Empire Ground +15% +45% Minzu, Minquan, Minsheng Republic of China Infantry +10% +30% Tsardom of All Rus’ Russian Empire Infantry -15% -45% Ataman Be Praised' Almighty Don Host, Cossackia, Kuban People's Republic, Yaik Cossack Host All Units +10% +30%
Extra Modifiers There are some external military mechanics that can passively modify or generate a randomized number (such as poltiical leaders and military leaders) that influence military experience. Passive Modifiers Standard Training: Standard Training is one of the main methods to boost experience during peace-time, as it also enhances the experience gained by the military leader commanding the group under the training division(s). On the other hand, while climate/advanced training, such as Arid, Jungle, Mountain (Mountainous, Semi-Mountainous, Hilly), and Winter (Mild Winter, Severe Winter, and Arctic), cannot boost the division's experience, they boost attack by 1.5x (+50%) when the ground unit is fighting on the training's correlated terrain or biome. Standard training will only train up to 175 experience, which maximizes at the Seasoned rank. Sieging Cities: Sieging cities, along with combat engagements, is one of the many methods capable of achieving the Veteran/Skull rank (250+ experience), as it surpasses the maximum threshold of 175 experience supported by regular military experience boosts. Combat Engagements during War: Combat engagements is one of the many methods capable of achieving the Veteran/Skull rank (250+ experience), as it surpasses the maximum threshold of 175 experience supported by regular military experience boosts. Reinforcements: Passively reduces EXP for the division that is actively healing, causing it to gradually lose ranks depending on the amount of reinforcements. Randomized Modifiers Political Leaders: The General of the Army, Admiral of the Fleet, Marshal of the Airforce, and the Chief of Staff are the only leaders that can upgrade experience. Military Leaders: The accumulation of Military Leaders EXP is contingent upon the experience gained by the division under the command of the leader. Frontline Leader Trait: This trait's military experience boost can augment if this trait is selected more than once.

Trivia

• Military experience can influence the capture time for cities, where high experience fastens the capturing duration, while lower experience prolongs it.
• While combat engagements and sieging cities are the most common ways of achieving Veteran infantry, it is possible to spawn infantry at this rank if you have substantial starting military experience. To do this, unlock the entirety of Specialization, recruit a General of the Army, recruit and upgrade a Chief of Staff to level two or three, and secure a formable modifier that increases infantry or ground starting experience. Be sure to avoid conscription laws above Volunteer, as they will significantly reduce your troop's starting experience.
  • The greater the military experience modifier provided by the General of the Army or the Chief of Staff, the higher the starting military experience.
  • The two formables with the highest starting infantry experience in their modifier are the Persian Empire and the Roman Empire. The Ottoman Empire, Republic of China, Almighty Don Host, Cossackia, Kuban People's Republic, and Yaik Cossack Host have smaller starting experience modifiers, but they are still viable.
  • The Frontline Leader trait from a military leader can increase military experience gain, but it does not affect starting military experience.
• Modifiers that solely affect attack/defense configurations, such as readiness, certain doctrines, biomes/terrain, entrenchment, flanking, fortifications, technology, and more, do not affect the change of military experience.
  • While military experience does enhance attack and defense performances for units, attack and defense are distinct features from military experience. Military experience provides either downgrades or upgrades to attack and defense, but other modifiers can also solely influence attack and defense without directly involving military experience.
• Flanking can yield a higher military experience gain for an enemy division compared to a head-on attack. If you lose a significant number of your troops while the enemy suffers minimal losses during a flank, it could lead to severe consequences, as the enemy division will become significantly stronger in both attack and defense due to increased experience. This outcome can also work in your favor if you survive the flank while your enemy fails.
• Before the 06/10/2024 Minor Update (June 10, 2024), it was extremely unlikely to spawn infantry with the Veteran rank, even with external military experience modifiers, such as Specialization, political leaders, and formable modifiers, unlike the current situation. Additionally, during the testing phase of the Military Doctrines Rework in the December 7, 2023 Update (December 7, 2023), it was possible to achieve Veteran/Skull troops using the same method.

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