Experience dependent upon army size?

[TemjinGold]

It would have to be or my Amelie would be like Level 100 with all the 1-troll fights she won...

[azsportsfan]

Originally Posted by TemjinGold

It would have to be or my Amelie would be like Level 100 with all the 1-troll fights she won...

Thanks for the responses. So, other than ease of management/control, there is no advantage score-wise to a smaller force.

[DGDobrev]

I think there was a correlation between your own leadership vs. enemy leadership for offensive pet dragon abilitites, though. If you have less leadership, the dragon takes "more decisive action" and gains more xp when killing enemies, or something like that. However, I'm not certain about that and I can't confirm it now because I use the pet dragon for digging and spamming mana accelerators for the mage...

[TemjinGold]

I'm pretty sure that's true as my dragon is 10+ levels higher than my character at one point and I only had training 1.

[Stepsongrapes]

Originally Posted by DGDobrev

I think there was a correlation between your own leadership vs. enemy leadership for offensive pet dragon abilitites, though. If you have less leadership, the dragon takes "more decisive action" and gains more xp when killing enemies, or something like that. However, I'm not certain about that and I can't confirm it now because I use the pet dragon for digging and spamming mana accelerators for the mage...

Dragon experience is calculated based on the ability used (each ability has difference exp potential) in conjunction with a multiplier determined by a ratio of your army leadership value to enemy leadership value, at the time the ability is used.

There's no affect on whether it kills something or not (though some of the damaging abilities are the highest experience potential ones).

There's a thread for it somewhere in the dragon ability subforum.

[Zechnophobe]

Yeah, dragon xp is a strict scalar of your total leadership over the enemies. Fight a victorious battle with a single peasant, and you would get the most possible dragon experience.

There is also a tapering off when using the same ability more than once in a combat though, which I don't recall if I ever figured out exactly.

[Stepsongrapes]

Originally Posted by Zechnophobe

There is also a tapering off when using the same ability more than once in a combat though, which I don't recall if I ever figured out exactly.

I don't recall any mention of this in the long dragon exp thread in the subforum.

Are you sure you're not simply seeing the affect of the yours/theirs leadership ratio changing as the battle progresses? Dragon exp is calculated based on the ratio at the time the ability is used, not for the overall battle.

In other words, casting an ability when you have 1 peasant to their 100 peasants (early in the battle) nets you more dragon exp than casting the same ability after you killed half of their peasants.

[Zechnophobe]

I am not basing this at all on observation, but rather on what I recall reading in the manual.

Edit: I was somewhat inaccurate, see below post.