Promoting my units has always been a rather weak point of mine. It seems there is a grand strategy with no "right" answers on how to promote your troops, but I feel like I'm missing out on that level of thought by assigning promotions rather haphazardly and having no real idea of which exact unit I am sending into battle. In FFH getting experience for your units seems much more important, what with some unit types only available via experience. Therefor I've decided to ask for some help to see if I can correct this weakness! Any advice is appreciated.
Ok, so I know that promotions are good and I try to use/abuse the civics and buildings that give me more xp on new units. Beyond this my strategy is pretty weak. Lately I just do Drill for archers and Combat (+ Mobility if available) for melee. It always seems like my Shock troops end up fighting horses or archers, etc; so I've begun to avoid those specific promotions due to my inability to leverage them.
On top of that I don't know what to do with my experienced units. Save them in the capital for some mysterious upgrading purpose? Keep them at the front lines to make use of their superior power?
Then is the topic of upgrading. I very often operate on the green side of the coin, so I usually have a good amount of spare cash over time. However those amounts feel like nothing at all once a new tech comes out and I can upgrade my units... it costs a lot of gold and even with careful spending I never have enough to modernize my forces all at once. How do you decide which units to upgrade and which to rebuild? Or should I not rebuild at all and just drop the sliders for a few turns to afford the upgrades? I'm sure there are many answers, but this is always a big dilemma for me.
Ok, so I know that promotions are good and I try to use/abuse the civics and buildings that give me more xp on new units. Beyond this my strategy is pretty weak. Lately I just do Drill for archers and Combat (+ Mobility if available) for melee. It always seems like my Shock troops end up fighting horses or archers, etc; so I've begun to avoid those specific promotions due to my inability to leverage them.
On top of that I don't know what to do with my experienced units. Save them in the capital for some mysterious upgrading purpose? Keep them at the front lines to make use of their superior power?
Then is the topic of upgrading. I very often operate on the green side of the coin, so I usually have a good amount of spare cash over time. However those amounts feel like nothing at all once a new tech comes out and I can upgrade my units... it costs a lot of gold and even with careful spending I never have enough to modernize my forces all at once. How do you decide which units to upgrade and which to rebuild? Or should I not rebuild at all and just drop the sliders for a few turns to afford the upgrades? I'm sure there are many answers, but this is always a big dilemma for me.