Cutting support

Support can be cut. This will cause the support order to fail and support will not be given.

  • Support is cut if the unit giving support is attacked from any province except the one where support is being given. The support is cut whether this attack on the supporting unit succeeds or not.

In the next diagram, the support from the army in Silesia (sil) is cut by an attack from Bohemia (boh). Note that is was enough to attack the army giving support to cut that support. It was not necessary to dislodge the supporting unit to cut that support :

  • Support is cut if the unit giving support is dislodged. If a unit ordered to support another unit is dislodged by an attack from any province (including the province into which it is giving support) then the support is “cut”. The unit that was to receive support does not receive it.

In diagram below, the German support is not cut by the attack from Warsaw (war) because that is the province into which support is being given. To cut support, the army in Warsaw would have to dislodge the army in Silesia (sil), not merely attack it :

In the next example, the Russian army coming from Prussia (pru) dislodges the German army in Silesia. The support of the Silesian army is thus cut and the German army in Berlin (ber) stands off the Russian fleet in the Baltic (BAL) :

  • A unit being dislodged by one province can still cut support in another. Just as a unit being dislodged by one province can still cause a standoff in another, a unit still manages to cut support even if it is dislodged. Just make sure that the dislodgment is not coming from the province where the unit is giving support (Remember this rule : A dislodged unit, even with support, has no effet on the province that dislodged it).

In next diagram, even though the German army in Munich is dislodged by a Russian attack, it is still able to cut the support of the Russian army in Silesia. This prevents the Russian army in Prussia from entering Berlin :