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what changed?

Upgrades will be cancelled and all resources lost if you give a move order to an upgrading stack or unit

use "add target" order

The upgrade mechanic is flawed in many ways. The biggest way that bugs me is this. If upgrading a unit costs half the resources and manpower of building a new unit, Shouldn't those resources and manpower also go into healing that unit? If a unit at 50% strength upgrades, It should be healed 25% for every upgrade level due to the infusion of Men and Materials.

No because it becomes more powerful

the unit may have an attack of 50 at 70% health

it will have 70 after being upgraded to the next level, but it will still be at 70% health

You are upgrading the existing tanks, not bringing new ones

Then where does all of that manpower go?

A unit has 2 game qualities.

1. Combat and movement Statistics.

2. Health

All of the fresh resources used to upgrade a unit is where the Materials come from to upgrade the equipment.

That accounts for the increased attack, defense, and movement. Infuse a bunch of .30 caliber machineguns into an Infantry unit and its attack and defense value goes up. That requires 0 manpower.

If a unit is created with a 1000 manpower and it is at 50% strength, then the logical assumption would be that if you added 500 manpower to the unit, it would give that unit healing do to the infusion of live bodies where there were dead bodies before.

If you have a 100 HP unit at 50% = 50HP when you upgrade it the HP goes up to 110 50% of 110 =55 HP an increase in 5 HP you do increase manpower