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Question about diminishing supply:

The manual states: If a unit cannot trace an LoC tot a supply source, its supply level will drop by an amount equal to the number of half days in a turn.

What is that 'amount'? Is it a percentage, something else?

THanks in advance for your replies.

Yes, I believe the supply of a unit is measured in percent.

Thanks, Larry.  However, I should have elaborated a bit. How much percent does supply diminish per turn for an out-of-supply unit? I.e., after how many turns is it (almost) totally ineffective?

 
afaik supply per se does not diminish - it is the value of hte hex.
 
What does diminish for an out-of-supply-unit is it's effectiveness.  supply is what restores you from red to 0range to yellow to light green to green - with no supply you can only get worse.
 
How fast you get worse depends upon what you do - if yuo do a lot of fightign you will quickly get to red.  If you do a lot of moving you will get there more slowly.
 
If you sit still and do nothing you may not get there at all.

ORIGINAL: Rob Zaagman

Question about diminishing supply:

The manual states: If a unit cannot trace an LoC tot a supply source, its supply level will drop by an amount equal to the number of half days in a turn.

What is that 'amount'? Is it a percentage, something else?

THanks in advance for your replies.

OK, if you're lucky your unit wll have been at 100% supply when he was cut off, for example. Now, also, say you're playing full week turns, now last time I checked there were 7 days, and therefore 14 half-days in a week. Therefore, it would take less than 10 turns for that unit to be down to 1% supply, if he did absoutely nothing.

Now, attacking also takes a certain percentage of your supply, pretty sure it 10% per attack, so every time you unit attacks when it is cut off, it losses an additional 10%.

SO, if your 100% supply unit is cut off, attacks three times in a turn, gets attacked 3 times by the enemy in that turn, and is unsupplied, you'd be down to 26% supply after a single turn... OUCH! [X(]

EDIT: Does that answer your question?

Veers,

Sorry not to have replied. Yes, answers the question, thank you.Rob Zaagman

Haha. Glad to see it helped.