Dude, you just fed him the perfect excuse to once again call ME a "cheater".
It is off by default.
BECAUSE pigeons have VERY high retreat values that normally cannot be countered by pursuit because pigeons fly, so WINNING said fight was miraculous - unless you had given the pigeon no unthreatened tiles to run to in which case you still get the benefit of high unlikelihood of victory even though you negated its extreme otherwise chance of withdrawal. The more 'miraculous' the victory, the more likely the battlefield promotion. First strikes and stealth strikes should allow a pigeon to be felled before it can even try to retreat - they have very low XP so even a round of victory before the pigeon has a chance to flee and there you have it, the perception in the code of a miraculous victory because you hit it from a distance before it could even try to fly off.
Sure if you're only getting XP, but battlefield promos can happen and replace the XP gain regardless of how many XP you would get from a battle. BF promos also give you promotions without giving the unit a notation of level gain for receiving it, and they are therefore 'free' promos and can LOOK like some kind of cheat if you don't understand how it works.
He surely can explain why he got 0 free promos in the next 835 turns by attacking much more with the unit. But no reloading! @Thunderbrd as USA in UEM. 
Game rules are at the first page under: "INSTALLATION AND USAGE". 
Except I *did* get a few. Or rather, just like YOU WERE TOLD BY A MODDER, it's the "risky attacks" that produce them more often - and guess WHICH units got them? The two "helpers" that didn't have any and were struggling to attack ANY comparably-strong units (almost always with terrain defense bonuses, no less). I did risk a few 60-70% attacks with those - and, lo and behold, they *did* get a couple Free Promos. And not even random ones, but related to which units they were struggling again (namely, both got [Shock] promos, aka "anti-Melee").Explain why you dont got a free promotion in the next 835 turns? Its surely like your earlier save games, you cant upload them as you do only one save.
This is an idiotic statement because honestly every turn could easily be a level or at least an XP each once you get into a position where you can XP farm for a unit. It's not usually that hard to rack up a power unit. You haven't established 'BUG' option rules but apparently even Somebody is using the ones that are less advantageous than I do. There are so many different ways to do things, it's not surprising that one player may find themselves thinking another has 'cheated' because they went about things very differently.
1. I'm using YOUR game options UNCHANGED (except for turning Events OFF, which is irrelevant to this topic and SUGGESTED by MODDERS). And scenarios CAN'T affect BUG Options.
Yeah, sorry, won't involve you further (or I'll try not to, lol). Thanks for your help explaining stuff, anyways.
Yes, that cockfighting is hilarious to watch
I don't believe so. All that option does is require more experience points to gain a level. I should know. I programmed it. That's the only thing it does at all.
I can only say that it doesn't put the observers into a nice light either. But whatever.
Just checking if I understand it right (because many of the BUG options are ambiguous at best).
It is what it is, not my fault the interaction between you two appear the way it does.
My point is that you sound like enjoying watching one user being troll-bullied by another. That is NOT a nice attitude to boast for a MOD(DER). Or so I'd say.
