"It seems like combat eats up supplies a lot now."
Yeah, especially if you're using Heavy Bombardment Missiles in P&N. It's a whopping 400 supplies for a single HBM V! Of course, since the AI's using them, I can sometimes run their ships out of supplies using cheesy moves in tactical combat.

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"Well, sir, at the moment my left processor doesn't know what my right is doing." -
Freefall