goosey54 said:
The units i've recruited from fiefs, (im in the moscow faction) they dont level up either? my companions and myself do.
is this a bug?
In general to archive hi-lvl units you need to build upgrades in your town/castle (stables+barracks+arsenal) and to appoint different officers.
Units hired in the village are not archiving exp. So you won't be able to get "winged gussar" out of former farmer.
Mercenaries hired in camps only improve there skills, but not armor/weapons, if you'd like to change their weapons you could paid for it in the mercenary camp of proper nation(faction).
NOTE: Income from selling trade goods from caravans could be lower then money paid! Since, for example, grain bought in Kiev costs 135 coins and small caravan selected (20 units of trade good?) + 1500 tallers for arranging a caravan - total = 4200 tallers cost. And the destination point is "Sich", where the grain costs only 140 tallers. So the total income would be -(minus) 1400. So there would be loses.
But if you (for example) paid for furs trade goods and sold them somewhere in the north the results could be much more better.