ORIGINAL: BillRunacre
Just to clarify, any damage suffered by any unit belonging to a Major will lower that Major's National Morale.
So if the French fleet does take a battering then France's National Morale will fall, though if ships are actually sunk then they do lose more National Morale due to the prestige value lost.
This appears to me to be contrary to the explanation of NM in the manual, at p. 88:
"Capturing resources belonging to enemy Majors, destroying enemy land and air units while their supply is less than 5, and sinking enemy ships at sea irrespective of their supply value, will also provide boosts to your National Morale." The manual says nothing about enemy losses reducing enemy NM, as best I can tell. I guess this was changed at some point in at least three respects: (1) imposing losses on the enemy reduces the enemy's NM as well as raising your own, (ii) not just sinking ships but also damaging them will have that effect, (iii) damaging or destroying any unit at any supply level will have that effect.
It would be helpful if there was a single document or webpage in which all changes to the engine, scripts, etc. were listed. It is great that the devs are so active in improving the game - truly extraordinary - but one downside to that is that it becomes difficult to follow all of the changes through multiple revs.
