Chinese Unit Morale

[mdsmall]

I am currently playing my first game of War in the Pacific as the Allies, in MP mode. It is April 1942. The Chinese have been doing fine up till now, holding their opening positions and reinforcing their armies. The Japanese have not yet made a push for Chongqing. I brought in Stillwell as Chinese General and have him well-placed to command the forward Chinese units.

However last turn I noticed a plummet in Chinese unit morale - all of their units are now under 40% morale, even ones that are in supply 8 or higher and which have not taken casualties. China's national morale is 75%.

Is there some specific game mechanic which might explain this? I looked in the Strategy Guide and in the Editor and could not see any specific factors which would depress Chinese unit morale. Any advice would be appreciated.

Cheers

[Platoonist]

Strange. I can't say I've ever seen a mass morale fall among Chinese units in that time period. Just the usual local drops due to low strength, poor supply or recent heavy causalities. I don't know of any event that would cause it outside of losing NM cities maybe.

[OldCrowBalthazor]

I never saw that either with the Chinese early on and still holding Chongking. I tested this in MP repeatedly in the Beta to help in giving advice and input to strengthen China somewhat before release.

[BillRunacre]

Fighting between Chinese factions can cause casualties and therefore reduce unit morale, other than that factors influencing National Morale, and therefore indirectly unit morale, will be the loss of National Morale objectives, or failing to assert KMT authority in Xinjiang Province.