Artillery Takes Too Long To Gain Experience and Rank Up

AgentX · Post by **AgentX** » Sat May 21, 2011 7:59 pm

I've noticed that artillery takes an unbearably long time to rank up in experience compared to other units. I can play an entire campaign and barely get my artillery to one star. So, I began using the unit info screen (alt+right click) to see what was happening. For example, my artillery gets a big hit on an entrenched enemy infantry, getting 4 hits with full suppression when the odds says it will only get 2. The experience level only went up by 2! Another example, my arty gets a big hit on an AA (5 hits when odds say only 2), experience level only went up 3. Now, if I only get 1 or no hits on the same target, it might not get any experience at all.

Meanwhile, everything else is racking up huge experience gains on their hits. On that same example of 5 hits on an AA unit, I took a fighter in for an attack after it (not what I'd normally do, but did it for a comparison). It was supposed to get 2 hits, but only got 1 and still got 9 experience points. Level bombers can go attack a city (not even an objective city) and get 10 experience points per attack without inflicting a single casualty. As a result, I can get my level bombers to gain a star just about every level, so their maxed out by their 5th scenario. However, an artillery unit would be hard pressed to get a single star in 5 scenarios. Something is just not right.

Artillery should get some kind of suppression bonus like the level bombers do. They are very important support units that allow infantry, tanks and planes to mop up after they attack an enemy. They get very little experience for the effort and everything else gets big experience for finishing off the same enemy units. By the time I get to the final scenario in a campaign, all my primary tanks/infantry are at 3 stars or higher and all my aircraft are at 4 stars or higher (not counting newly purchased units of course). Meanwhile, not a single artillery is over 1 star. I even wait out each scenario to the very last turn that still allows a decisive victory, so I can help them get more experience. I surround the final objective city, let the AI put up a unit or 2, kill them and repeat to the end, but it still doesn't help. Can anything be done to increase the experience that artillery gain?

Obsolete · Post by **Obsolete** » Sat May 21, 2011 8:08 pm

Silly

This is the reason you don't take elite replacements on your artillery. At least I hope you were not...

Kerensky · Post by **Kerensky** » Sat May 21, 2011 8:32 pm

#13 Post #1(Critical priority) on The List
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AgentX · Post by **AgentX** » Sat May 21, 2011 8:43 pm

Thanks Kerensky, good to see that its on the critical list of needed improvements before release. Sorry, didn't notice the list at first, but I'll check with it before I make any new threads. Seemed like something was really out of whack with those artillery.