Oddness regarding supplying sneaky troops
Imagine this: a vaettir Chief and his merry band of Wolf Riders journey out into the unknown, sneaking about in order to find a nice province to assault. Now, while doing this, they will not starve. However, as soon as they manage to conquer a province, they better keep their fingers crossed. If the Supply capacity of that province is too low they will start, all of a sudden, to starve. This hardly seems to be consistent. Also, if that same band happen to ride into one of your own provinces, there better not be too many giants present or these and/or the vaettir will again starve.
Actually, when I was trying out the Chief + Wolf Rider combination, I did to some extent expect them to require supplies, except while they are located in woodland areas. This would have made sense to me and would have encouraged me to skulk about in the woods with vaettir units - kind of fits the picture well. As things turned out, Forest Survival is not at all as useful for the vaettir as I had initially assumed.
I would suggest that the vaettir, and any other similar stealth units, are either able to survive without food (essentially, any stealth unit would now how to forage the lands in order to survive) or that they must rely on their Survival abilities, if any.
Oh, and speaking of Survival - IMO, it would make some sense if stealthy units with Survival would gain a bonus to their Stealth ability when located in that specific terrain. The great familiarity with that kind of environment would thus also be of advantage when they are trying to avoid being detected.
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