User Guide

The red ball on the company’s standard provides a
rough idea of a company’s experience level: the
higher the ball is on the flagstaff, the more experi-
ence the company has.
Company Morale.
A company’s morale has a
direct impact on the behavior of its soldiers in bat-
tle. A company with high morale sticks out the
most difficult fight. A company with low morale
runs when the fighting becomes too difficult.
Companies with very low morale may even refuse
to leave their Forts.
A number of factors influence morale. Success in
battle, in addition to increasing experience, boosts
morale. If a company is outnumbered by its
enemy, morale plummets. Morale also sinks if
soldiers are kept away from their Forts after a bat-
tle. When your city is under no immediate threat,
don’t march your soldiers around or station them
away from their Forts, or their morale might be
very low indeed when invaders do appear.
Companies prefer sleeping and eating in their Fort
to foraging for food in the countryside and sleep-
ing under the stars.
A gold ball on the flagstaff of the company’s ban-
ner gives you a general indication of the compa-
ny’s morale. Info-click on the company or visit
your Overseer of the Military for a more precise
report.
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To station a company in the field, or to simply instruct
it to move to a new location, click on it and then click
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Company Fighting Ability
When companies are in their Forts, standing in the
parade grounds, they look fierce and ready to take on
any foe. Not all companies, however, are equally pre-
pared to fight. Both experience and morale affect a
company’s performance on the battlefield.
Experience.
The more experienced a company is,
the more effective it will be in combat. A compa-
ny’s overall experience depends on the experience
of each of its men.
Soldiers fresh from the Recruiter have no experi-
ence and have no idea what to expect in the con-
fusion of battle. Soldiers who endured the rigors
of Academy training benefit from their instruc-
tors’ hard lessons and enter into service with some
experience.
All soldiers who survive a battle gain experience
from fighting. Each engagement that he walks
away from teaches a soldier more about the art of
war.
Each soldier impacts a company’s overall experi-
ence. If a new recruit without Academy training
joins a veteran company, he’ll bring down its
overall experience. Soldiers trained at the
Academy will bring down the experience level of
your most veteran companies, but might improve
the experience level of green companies whose
previous members weren’t Academy-trained.
Info-click on a company or visit your Overseer of
the Military to check on a company’s experience.
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