Experience gain and Arty Calling

[Ironfist]

Hi all,

I have played this game for a while and I really like it. I have some questions.

1. Experience gain
In the manual it said that you can gain exp by just hitting the bad guys and if there is a kill (esp the first 5), the exp will boost up. It also mentioned that killing the crew will gain nothing except a kill mark for your unit. My question is that how about firing at the crew? Do I gain exp by firing at crew? And suppose a unit's first 5 kills are all "crew kills", i.e., destroying crews, do they waste the first 5 kill bonus?

2. Arty calling
Suppose my FO has no LOS to bad buys but HAS LOS to a hex adjacent to the bad buys. Where should the arty be called on? The empty hex with LOS or the hex with enemy but without LOS? Which way is better?

Thanks.

B.R.
Ironfist