I've been fighting a lot of barbarians and a lot of AI Civs in this game and I seem to be stuck at a 100 XP cap. This is somewhat annoying as there is another lovely promotion waiting at just the other side with 101 XP.

I know that heroes "naturally" grow to 100 XP, but even if I fight after that, it doesn't seem to go up.

What am I missing and how do I get my guys to go over 100 XP?

You must fight other civs. Both killing barbarians and the automatic XP gains from Hero and Arcane are capped at 100.

...unless you have the Raiders trait.

Are you sure Arcane also caps at 100 ? I had the impression that it didn't, but became harder and harder to get exp. I don't use much magic users anyway, so I could be terribly wrong here.

the max XP cap is at 999 xp, but this can only be acheived via fighting AI civs- the barbs/animals have a cap of 100 and will not give any XP after this point. I believe you can change both of these values in GlobalDefinesAlt.xml in the XML folder, if you are unhappy with them.

Vanila BTS caps exp from barbarians at 10. Being able to get 100 exp from barbarians in FfH seems very generous (and much appreciated).

You can change the limit on xp from fighting barbarians, from fighting animals,and free xp from promotions in the GlobalDefinesAlt.xml file. I always do. (I also gave the Barbs some of the best military traits to make them more challenging)


It used to be that only free hero xp was capped, but now that applies to xp from the channelinng promotions as well.


The Raiders trait gives +1 xp per battle, even over the limit. The Great Commander and Valor promotions also give +1 xp per battle. Defeating some units (e.g., the barbarian heroes like Acheron,Gurid, and the 4 Horsemen) will give more xp also, even after the normal limit is surpassed.

Now when you say the barbs are capped at 100 xp, does that mean a unit can gain a total of 100 xp from barbs or that barbs are worth no experience after it hits 100 xp?

It gains no more experience from defeating barbs after it reaches 100 exp, unless your leader has the Raider trait, or there is a Great Commander united with the unit, or the unit is under the effect of the Valor spell.

Barbs give no exp to a unit who has 100 or more already (from any source). Though Valor, a Great commander and Raider trait will still provide 1 XPeach for such a battle.

Edit: bah, stupid gimp keyboard makes me type slow!