Encirclement Mechanics

[phoenix]

Thanks Ricky. Would 3 have more chance of being low on ammo/fuel/out of command though - because the min route supply calculation would have to circumvent the blocking units?

By example 3 I was wondering if the AI supply chain will go to unlimited lengths - diverting from roads across other terrain - to get to the supply source? Or is it possible that you make its route so roundabout and long - via distant blocking units interposing between the unit and its HQ/supply source - that the unit becomes isolated? For example, is there a limit in hexes as to how many non road/rail hexes the supply route can be traced across? If a line unit is 10 hexes away from its HQ and the HQ has a command range of 15, if I block all roads back to the HQ so that the min supply route has to trace through 20 hexes, does the line unit become isolated?

Peter