Talk:Experience/@comment-213.57.13.212-20170205170818/@comment-76.103.88.37-20170205212415

I have to disagree with the person before me. I find that it's much less tedious to grind exp for low level kiwame than high level normal tantou - it's a huge jump in power, and you have to deal with less resource drain from troop loss thanks to the higher stats and extra slot. Even a pretty low level kiwame can do just fine training in Era 5 or 6 (and be much less likely to lose troops there than a typical tantou) as long as they're fully refined or at least close to it, and they don't start having huge experience requirements till they hit level 30, which is also the level where kiwame start really getting competitive for the late game.

If you really want to level your tantou beyond 60 before you send them off, just to 70 will do. That will have your kiwame start around level 30, and while 33+ is recommended for 7-1, 30+ is honestly fine for training there as long as you keep an eye on how your swords are doing.