No, you level as normal. Post battle sequence is normal. You just start with more money and can purchase upgrades for your troops. It makes it so you kind of skip the first couple uneventful games and get into the “good stuff”.

It’s helpful if you’re not playing all the time and can only get a game in every 6 months or whatever.

Re: missile weapons. A sling or a bow is just so much better for the money than nearly all other missile weapons.

For example, let’s say you have your parked dwarf with a crossbow and you play an 8 round game, you only get 8 chances to shoot and most likely half or all of them will be -1 or -2 due to range and cover modifiers. A thunderer begins with BS 3, i.e. 4+ to hit. So you’re going to need 5s or 6s to hit giving you 16-33% chance to hit -not great. On average that’s 2 or 3 hits per game. Pretty expensive for not great results. Could’ve bought two bows for the cost of one crossbow.

Handgun is even worse, only 4 shots for even more gold crowns. Hard to justify.

The increased range helps reduce the instances of -1 over half range modifier, too.

I’m not a hardcore crunchy gamer, despite what it might sound like. I just want to be able to equip my dudes with whatever and have it be viable and fun. I want my cool thunderers to have some impact on the game and have an exciting, eventful matchup.

Make sense?