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ORIGINAL: chrisdk

So, just so I understand it correctly:

in Turn 1 I form a Group of Unit A and B (both infantery).
I give it 2 CAPS.
As my Group Move, I move Unit A into heavy woods, costing 2 AP and unit B for 1 AP.
This leaves me with Unit A at 7 AP and unit B at 7 AP
On my next turn, the group is still selected. It still shows Unit A at 7 AP and Unit B at 7 AP.
If I now deselect the group, it switches to showing Unit A at 7 AP and Unit B at 6 AP even though I didn't need to use any of the CAPS of the unit to get it where it is.
So basically the unit is being penalised for being part of a group that did something slightly more expensive.

It just feels weird to me that this would be intended behaviour and not just an unintended consequence of how loosing Caps upon deselection works.

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ORIGINAL: Lebatron

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ORIGINAL: chrisdk

So, just so I understand it correctly:

in Turn 1 I form a Group of Unit A and B (both infantery).
I give it 2 CAPS.
As my Group Move, I move Unit A into heavy woods, costing 2 AP and unit B for 1 AP.
This leaves me with Unit A at 7 AP and unit B at 7 AP
On my next turn, the group is still selected. It still shows Unit A at 7 AP and Unit B at 7 AP.
If I now deselect the group, it switches to showing Unit A at 7 AP and Unit B at 6 AP even though I didn't need to use any of the CAPS of the unit to get it where it is.
So basically the unit is being penalised for being part of a group that did something slightly more expensive.

It just feels weird to me that this would be intended behaviour and not just an unintended consequence of how loosing Caps upon deselection works.

You did find a rule error. Here is what you did in CoH terms. You paid for a group move using only CAP. That makes it a 'command action' which means none of your units should be penalized after you disband the group. To group move you play the highest move cost of whatever units are in your group which you did. The forest move was 2AP in cost. You paid 2 CAP to cover it. The end result is that on your next turn both infantry should still have 7AP after you disbanded the group. Had you moved the group with AP instead then you would be locked in and if you disbanded that group before you used up all the AP you would lose them points. CAPs are supposed to be super AP that allow flexibility so that you can form groups and disband without penalty. There are issues yet with the game engine knowing the difference between an AP point and a CAP point.

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ORIGINAL: chrisdk
Yeps, that's it pretty spot on ;-)
It would be really neat if the "Command Actions" from the boardgame were possible like they are there. Right now the "the whole group goes down to the lowest AP" creates a lot of situations for me where it is unwise to use Group actions, since I would be involving a Unit with 2 or 3 AP in a Group with only fresh units and all of a sudden they all go down to the lowly number. Took me a while to realize that that "All go to lowest level" was why my AP kept disappearing ;-)

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ORIGINAL: ericbabe

The point, I guess, is that we don't want players to get more than 1 AP per CAP spent.