Slitherine

Anyone know the exact formula for gaining experience? For instance my fighter was farming 50+ kills on a bomber on the Warsaw scenario but could not even gain a single level!! I was farming anti-air and artillery with infantry but getting little experience, but somehow my recon truck killed like 25 units and gained a level (I think it killed a mix of artillery tanks etc)?? Perhaps a formula so I can plan exactly which units should kill what to maximize my experience gains! This is not so much an issue in the GC as the main campaign. I sure wish recon had higher ground defense against those t-34s and kv1 :O

I wouldn't worry about recon vs t34 and kv - even a PzIV can get crushed under those vile things!

- BNC

According to a few tests with non-random combat rules, you can say that a unit gains more experience the more kills and suppression it does according to the enemy defense value.
It also gains few experience according to own losses but not own suppression.

Direct fire example:
Inf SA 99/GD 20 vs. Inf SA 99/GD 0, both strength 10 suffering 8 losses due Kill cap of 81%: 128 xp vs 136 xp
I’ve increased the max. strength of GD 0 infantry to 12, let artillery reduce it’s strength to 10 with additional 7 suppressions. Inf GD 20 attacked afterwards with 8 vs 2 kills: 122 xp vs 50 xp
This shows that suppression didn’t really affect the experience gain of the GD 20 although the GD 0 could hardly return fire with only 3 unsuppressed strength.

Similar with indirect firing artillery showing results without much killing:
Arty SA 6 vs Inf GD 0 with 2 Kills and 7 Supps: 8 xp vs 4 xp
Arty SA 6 vs Inf GD 1 with 2 Kill and 6 Supps: 7 xp vs 4 xp
Arty SA 6 vs Inf GD 2 with 2 Kill and 6 Supps: 14 xp vs 4 xp
Arty SA 6 vs Inf GD 3 with 1 Kill and 5 Supps: 18 xp vs 2 xp
Arty SA 6 vs Inf GD 4 with 1 Kill and 5 Supps: 24 xp vs 2 xp
Arty SA 6 vs Inf GD 5 with 1 Kill and 4 Supps: 25 xp vs 2 xp
Arty SA 6 vs Inf GD 6 with 1 Kill and 4 Supps: 30 xp vs 2 xp
Arty SA 6 vs Inf GD 7 with 1 Kill and 4 Supps: 35 xp vs 2 xp
Arty SA 6 vs Inf GD 8 with 1 Kill and 3 Supps: 32 xp vs 2 xp
Arty SA 6 vs Inf GD 9 with 1 Kill and 3 Supps: 36 xp vs 2 xp
Arty SA 6 vs Inf GD 10 with 0 Kills and 3 Supps: 30 xp vs 0 xp
Arty SA 6 vs Inf GD 20 with 0 Kills and 1 Supp: 15 xp vs 0 xp

That’s no sophisticated analysis now, but can give an idea that xp is about difficulty to overcome defense and kill/supp result.

Somehow they managed to overturn the artillery experience gain from Panzer General. While in PG the artillery gained the least amount of experience from all units, in PzC the artillery usually cranks up experience faster than everyone else.

cool, that is helpful. So the higher the defense the more experience you get. That does make sense that killing anti-air doesn't give much experience. It also explains why the artillery are gaining experience like crazy.