Encirclement Mechanics

[phoenix]

Thank you for replying...Most helpful, I guess the longer a unit/s are surrounded the unit quality drops, assuming it fires have I got that right ?

The actual amount of moves a unit is surrounded has no bearing on the mechanics other than to allow the effects stated above to occur.

It's a great question. Can I ask those who have replied so helpfully to clarify for me please? 

See the image below (apologies for poor graphics efforts). Yellow box at top of map is supply source/HQ etc. Black hexagon are units whose supply I'm querying in 3 different situations. Red units are those units cutting it off. 

In example 1 there are no hexes free around the unit - it's clearly isolated. The same would be true even if this was done via interlocking ZOCs.

In example 2, the unit's passage to its HQ/supply source is cut off via interlocking zocs at one hex distance. Still isolated? 

In example 3 the main roads and routes to the supply source/hex have been interdicted. Isolated? 

Thanks! 

Peter