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Exercises are also a very safe way of gaining experience for your ships. Ships cannot sink, and are automatically repaired back to their pre-exercise status after a battle has concluded. The only running cost is fuel/ammo (as if you participated in a sortie battle; 20% fuel and 20%/30% ammo) and bauxite (planes are still shot down and must be replenished).

Exercises are also a very safe way of gaining experience for your ships. Ships cannot sink, and are automatically repaired back to their pre-exercise status after a battle has concluded. The only running cost is fuel/ammo (as if you participated in a sortie battle; 20% fuel and 20%/30% ammo) and bauxite (planes are still shot down and must be replenished).

Finally, winning exercises generally results in your ships gaining [[Morale/Fatigue|morale]]. PvP modifiers for morale are generally the same as sorties; for example, a ship can gain morale by achieving MVP in an exercise. However, unlike sorties, returning from exercises does not drain morale, allowing admirals to easily generate morale for their ships for the purposes of sortieing or expeditions. Since achieving an S rank gives +1 morale to all participating ships, ships can go from 49 morale to 50, instantly sparkling them.

Winning exercises generally results in your ships gaining [[Morale/Fatigue|morale]]. PvP modifiers for morale are generally the same as sorties; for example, a ship can gain morale by achieving MVP in an exercise. However, unlike sorties, returning from exercises does not drain morale, allowing admirals to easily generate morale for their ships for the purposes of sortieing or expeditions. Since achieving an S rank gives +1 morale to all participating ships, ships can go from 49 morale to 50, instantly sparkling them.

Heavily damaged ships can gain exp, but they do not have protection from sinking (just as if they are in a sortie). They can receive damage, and if the damage would exceed their current HP, they will be treated as "sunken". If this happens, the ship will not gain any experience, and your battle rank will lower (see [[Combat#Victory_Conditions|here]] for details, replacing "friendly ship sunk" with "ship treated as sunken" in the conditions).

Heavily damaged ships can gain exp, but they do not have protection from sinking (just as if they are in a sortie). They can receive damage, and if the damage would exceed their current HP, they will be treated as "sunken". If this happens, the ship will not gain any experience, and your battle rank will lower (see [[Combat#Victory_Conditions|here]] for details, replacing "friendly ship sunk" with "ship treated as sunken" in the conditions).

==When to Run Exercises==

==When to Run Exercises==