Question: Engineering Tasks

[Warnevada]

I know that Retreat or Rout statuses prevent doing any engineering tasks, but do other suppression values affect them? That is, if a unit has some suppression, e.g. 5, does that make it less effective at what it's doing, such as clearing mines?

[DRG]

Yes

as well...

"Leaders and units are rated for infantry, armour or artillery skills. These skill ratings can be used on subordinate troops, leaders close to and in contact with their own troops can replace or boost the subordinate unit's skill rating with their own, this tends to work best at 1 to 3 hexes in voice contact, not over the radio. This affects firing for example, or engineers removing mines"

and

"If they fire it slows down mine clearing. If they are fired on it slows down ( or halts altogether ) mine clearing."

[Mobhack]

And of course, suppressed troops entering minefield or booby trap hexes are a little bit more likely to set one off since they are less observant.