How bad is starving?

[Endoperez]

Diseased, living units never heal, and get 1 point of damager/turn. They'll also often get afflictions.

Starvation only kicks in after the unit suffers from it for the second turn. So moving in, starving, and moving out is perfectly safe.

Your own fortresses "radiate" supply lines to provinces near them, so having a fort nearby could save your troops. If you have researched Thaumaturgy 2, I suggest casting Gnome Lore on all provinces near the Shinuyama capital - you might get lucky and get a fortress from a site. Mountains and wastes have better chance of delivering, and searching empty provinces is better than ones which already have 3 of the 4 possible sites.

[Lazy_Perfectionist]

Can recruit enough indie shamans, you can alleviate your starvation, as well. Not the best idea, but I'll throw it out there. As well, those indie shamans can often forge bags of endless wine for fifty supply.

[DonCorazon]

Thanks guys, very helpful. Btw, is there a hotkey to pickout starving troops, as there is for wounded troops?

[Rathar]

Nay

[Arralen]

Starvation is distributed randomly each turn ... therefore it wouldn't make much sense to pick out "starving" troops.

[DonCorazon]

I want to pick out the starving ones to send them back to a province with supplies and send the ones that are not starving on to fight. The non-starving ones won't have the morale penalty. The province they move into to fight has enough supplies for them. Not sure why that doesn't make sense?

Also, holding down 'S' does pick out the starving troops.

[Endoperez]

Wow, I never knew that! Cool!

[Jazzepi]

Arralen said:
Starvation is distributed randomly each turn ... therefore it wouldn't make much sense to pick out "starving" troops.

It makes a lot of sense. Starving troops, even if they have no afflictions take a -4 hit to morale which can be a huge swing in a squad morale check. It can be very useful to simply leave the low morale troops in the province that they're in before the army moves.

Jazzepi

[Rathar]

I am so pleased to be wrong! That is quite handy!