What determines the gain from the Honor policy and Aztec unique ability?

Question

Honor now grants culture when barbarians are killed and grants gold per unit killed later on. The Aztec (BLAST YOU AND YOUR SHINY GODS...ahem...) unique ability grants culture when a unit is killed. What determines the amount of culture/gold gained after each kill?

Just from playing I seem to earn more from the more advanced units but I was hoping for a formula.

Answer

According to my testing:

Aztec culture from kills =
Honor culture from barbarians =
Honor finisher gold from kills =
COMBAT STRENGTH OF KILLED UNIT

So killing a Pikeman (strength 10) as Aztec with full honor tree gives 10 culture and 10 gold.

Notes:

• Ranged units provide culture/gold according to their regular strength, not ranged strength.
• Only the base strength is considered, bonuses (terrain / great general / promotions etc.) do not matter.
• Killing a unit with a city does not generate culture or gold (or xp).
• If you're supposed to get both culture and gold from a kill, only one of the floating numbers will appear, either purple or yellow; but both values are correctly awarded.
• Culture awards from Aztec UA and from the Honor opener stack, so barbarian units provide 2 x strength culture per kill in that case.

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