Newbie Questions about experience

[ceremony]

Originally posted by yurislave:
2. How do they get experience it is through battle or do they gain it over time or do actions like building and converting and researching gain experience?
3. Does experience get the commanders/pretenders new skills like being able to command more units, being able to convert better, better magic and research skills so on and so forth?

In addition to battle and other such things, units which gain experience through research get increased research skill: recruit a mage, check his research ability, have him do magic research for a while, and check his research skill when he acquires the experience symbol. His skill went up!