Slitherine

Hi. I have some question regarding troop experience and commanders. How will you handle it?
Will experienced units get better stats? Or will they get overstrength like in PC? And what will be the criterias for getting a commander? Certain number of kills, certain amount of xp?

Experience will give units slightly better combat performance, but the largest impact is on efficiency and survivability. Veteran units will suffer less efficiency loss fromcombat, bombardment, moving through difficult terrain etc and recover faster from low efficiency. They will also retreat more effectively. In OOBP defending units try to stay alive by retreating from combat that cuts too hard into their strength. This decreases the amount of casualties taken based on the speed difference between attacker and defender - making fast, light tanks more effective than slow, heavy tanks at destroying weakened enemies because they can deal more damage in the retreat. Experience also plays a factor in retreat: veteran units can retreat more effectively decreasing the amount of losses taken.

So experienced units will never become super killers, but will become much more reliable with a significantly increased survivability.

As for Commanders, they are unlocked through scenario triggers rather than unit experience. We felt this was more interesting instead of double rewarding unit experience gained through combat. Some Commanders will be unlocked automatically at the start of a scenario, others may require completing secondary objectives while a few have to be "discovered" by completing undocumented actions in a scenario ("easter eggs" of a sort).

Cool.
Thanks for the fast answer on a sunday.
Another question just coming up in my mind. For what will the troops gain xp? Just for combat? Or for accomplishing certain tasks like an misson objective? General xp for participating a scenario?

Carriers gain experience from refueling aircraft. Other unit types are limited to combat at the moment, but other non-combat units (like Seabees) might get some alternative means to gain XP as well.