

The skill will become more effective if the leader (you) also knows something about it. Therefore multiple companions with 'Trainer' can be used to give a greater advantage to the party. However, in the case of 'Trainer', the whole party benefits from bonus experience. In general this ability only benefits the individual. Personal skill A personal skill grants an ability to an individual party-leader or companion. However, only the party-leader's level in the skill is used. Leader skill Like a party skill, a leader skill grants an ability to a party. If the player has a party skill trained to level 2 or higher, a bonus may be awarded (see below). The level of a party skill is chosen from the party member who has the highest level in that skill. Party skill A party skill grants an ability to the party as a whole. I'm not sure WHY they are gone, but they are gone.The type of a skill determines how it affects the party. Back in Warbands, you could find or train multiple companions to all train troops, and troops would level substantially just walking around. I don't think there is a non grindy way anymore. If you find yourself in a kind of grey area vis a vis the numbers you are facing, you can advance most of your army along behind the trainee troops, and if it starts to look bad you can sick the whole army on them. Point being, you isolate the troops you are training and make them take the enemy, but you control how many of the enemy so that your trainees are not overwhelmed by numbers. Training missile troops seems to me to happen more or less automatically though. Obviously, if you are actually trying to train missile troops, you don't do this. This way you can focus the experience gains on a specific set of troops. LOLĢ-F4 and 4-F4 respectively will keep your bows from killing them before the infantry can get to them. I do not advise taking on the viking raiders (sea raiders) unless you are training some troops that are already fairly advanced and you outnumber them by 3-1 or more. If you are training cav with half decent armor, you can chase small troops of forest bandits too. That is the number you use to order them around in the tactical game.) You chase small groups of looters first, and I have had pretty good luck with hill bandits as well.

You click on a troop in the list, and on the upper right of the picture of the troop that appears in the large middle pannel, there is a roman numeral. (This is done in the "Party" menu, in case you had not noticed.

So, for example., if you are trying to train a specific infantry set, you set them to 8. If you want to scientifically advance certain troops, you need to set those troops to a certain, specific number on the troop type chart. I guess it is kind of like playing some sort of simple solitaire game.
