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Caltone -> (12/20/2002 8:13:34 AM)
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Hi J30 and welcome aboard. Just to expand a little on your first question:
There is support for ground troops and support for aircraft. These are idenitified in the unit display as "support" and "aviation support" respectivly. While every land unit will have some intrinsic support, generally you get ground unit support from "HQ" units and air support from "Base force' engineer units.
[B]Support For Ground Units[/B]
You can think of these as the officers, staff, medics, quartermasters, etc necessary to run a combat unit. As mentioned above, all ground units have intrinsic support but very few have enough. the unit window will tell you how much support the unit requires. HQ units are nearly all support, where combat units have a deficit of suppport, the HQ's have an excess. When calculating support for units in a hex, the sum of the required support is compared to the sum of support present for all units. Thus by placing HQ's in a base or hex along with combat units, sufficient support can be achieved. Units without sufficient support in thier hex will lose efficiency. Just click on any base and you will see the sums of these numbers, deficiencies are noted in red.
[B]Support For Air Units[/B]
Aircraft on carriers always have enough support, its the land based air you need to worry about. You need 1 aviation support for each aircraft at an airbase. If there is insufficient aviation support, aircraft will gradually become damaged until the operational number of aircraft does not exceed the avaiable aviation support. Again these number can be checked in the base window, just click on an airbase. One other note, no airbase will ever require more than 250 aviation support regardless of the number of aircraft present.
Hope this helps and if its not clear, I'm sure others will fill in the gaps :D
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