Acken
Deity
The amount of late game stuff we dont know and they dont want to show 7 weeks before release is worrisome to me. I have more and more the feeling the late game will feel unfinished and messy...
What happens to promotions when creating corps and armies ?
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footslogger
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Not necessarily. It makes good commercial sense to keep stuff back. If we know too much too soon the approach to release becomes a bit anticlimactic.
Acken
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Of course it can be one or the other reason but im getting a bit skeptic.
Hakan-i Cihan
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It was mentioned that combining two units to a corps made the unit 40% stronger. It wasn't specifically said how this translates to numbers. Thus I am wondering whether this will translate as the strength of the unit will be 40% more or whether the corps will have more than the standard 100 hitpoints which results in 40% stronger unit. For me the second option looks more realistic, but the devs could have gone for option 1.
Big J Money
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Since all we can do is place bets right now, for the hell of it I'll place my bet on:
All promotions combine (duplicates are wasted)
This is used to recalculate current combat strength
A +40% increase in combat strength is applied for corps; possibly as its own promotion (don't know for army. I'll bet 110%, or 50% of a corps, which is the same and creates the same 70% overall value)
Hitpoints of all units are summed, so damaged units simply add their current health; not max health
All promotions combine (duplicates are wasted)
This is used to recalculate current combat strength
A +40% increase in combat strength is applied for corps; possibly as its own promotion (don't know for army. I'll bet 110%, or 50% of a corps, which is the same and creates the same 70% overall value)
Hitpoints of all units are summed, so damaged units simply add their current health; not max health
To close the loop on this for anyone who stumbled on here from Google and is wondering what the verdict is. The corps gets the promotions from the more experienced of the two units you are combining, or if they both have the same number of promotions, then from the unit you are combining with (i.e. the second one you click on).
So if you want to maximize "exploit", you should combine green units with veterans.
So if you want to maximize "exploit", you should combine green units with veterans.
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Ravellion
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Really, I was reasonably sure you just always get the highest XP unit's promotions.
I tested it a couple times in my game, it seems to be the way I described.
kaspergm
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I haven't quite figured out the exact system. I made some corps in my current game by joining units with 1 promotion with another unit with 2 promotions, and the corps seemed to get the 2 promotions of the higher level unit. But I seem to recall having read that if units with different promotion levels are joined it seems to go to some sort of average, so I guess if units with more than 1 promotion level difference are joined, the higher unit might loose top promotion. Haven't tested this yet, however.
gunnergoz
Cat Herder
So in other words, we still don't know for sure. The few corps I've made were from vanilla units since I did not want to risk hi-ranked promoted veterans. I may have to do a save and try to see what works out.
Ok, no offense, but I don't think you guys read my message properly.
Exactly. Like I said:
Note this was all tested under 1.0.0.26 release. AFAIK there haven't been any changes in the 1.0.0.30 update but that's the one thing I didn't confirm.
Exactly. Like I said:
No, that is NOT correct. As far as I know, that average stuff you read about was just pre-release speculation.
<Sigh> We do know for sure. See my last two replies on this thread. You're safe to (and should) combine your vanilla units with high-ranked veterans.
Note this was all tested under 1.0.0.26 release. AFAIK there haven't been any changes in the 1.0.0.30 update but that's the one thing I didn't confirm.
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kaspergm
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Will have to test this to confirm by matching a level 0 unit with a level 4 unit and see what happens. Will test later and report back.
I already tested it. I had a level 0 unit combined with a level 2 unit, and the corps became a level 2. I also tested several other combinations. As implied by my comments a few threads up, you need to be careful about the order you combine them in if the units are the same levels but have different promotions.
Seriously, I don't understand why you are completely dismissing the findings I reported. Go ahead and test it yourself, you will find the same outcome.
The only thing of value there is left to add here from your efforts (aside from confirming my findings; which I suppose has value in and of itself and I acknowledge and appreciate your efforts in that regard), is to confirm the behavior is the same in 1.0.0.30.
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I agree with @rkagerer in as much as I did this twice... I had 2 ships each with promo's up the different strands. On combination they took the one that had slightly higher experience.
Since then I learn my lesson and now only combine noobs with experienced. Seem to keep the full amount, great idea to up power without loss of skill.
gunnergoz
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I will now combine new units with experienced ones whenever possible. 
KrikkitTwo
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Any answer to barracks/armory question...what rate does the corps get exp at?(one armory unit at 50%, one Barracks at 25%)
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