Experience and rank

Experience and ranks (rank is also known as veterancy or level) are gained by units in campaign mode.

Experience is gained by fighting in battles (including autoresolve), and from many other sources. Once a unit gains enough experience, it will go up in rank and become stronger.

Ranking up affects characters and regular units differently.

Characters

Characters such as legendary lords, lords and heroes gain experience and rank up. Ranking up will give the character 1 skill point with which to purchase a new skill from their skill tree. Ranking up will also unlock new skills in the skill tree, as well as quests (sometimes culminating in a set piece battle), mounts, items, spells, other abilities and more.

• In Total War: Warhammer the max rank of characters is 30.

• In Total War: Warhammer II, the max rank of characters is 40.

A few unique characters do not gain experience or rank up.

Regular units

The regular units in an army gain ranks which are depicted with bronze, silver, or gold chevrons on their unit card.

Ranks increase the leadership, melee attack, melee defense, and missile damage stats of a unit.

Regiments of Renown, Blessed Spawnings and Legions of Legend are always at max rank (3 gold chevrons).

Rank	Chevrons	XP Required	Cumulative XP	Leadership Bonus	Melee Attack	Melee Defence
Rank 1	1 Bronze	1100	1100	+1	+1	+1
Rank 2	2 Bronze	600	1700	+2	+2	+2
Rank 3	3 Bronze	800	2500	+3	+3	+3
Rank 4	1 Silver	1100	3600	+4	+4	+4
Rank 5	2 Silver	1400	5000	+5	+5	+5
Rank 6	3 Silver	2000	7000	+6	+6	+6
Rank 7	1 Gold	3600	10600	+7	+7	+7
Rank 8	2 Gold	4900	15500	+8	+8	+8
Rank 9	3 Gold	6500	22000	+10

Ranged units also become more accurate and possibly have shorter reload times with each chevron.