 Supply Wagon - Training, weapons, and
good tactics can't win the war on their own. You need to feed and reload your troops
as well. The Supply Wagon rewards you for considering your supply lines, without
demanding excessive micromanagement.
As soon as your troops move into enemy territory, they are susceptible to attrition.
Any nation can research Attrition (at the
Tower); invading Russia brings heavy Russian
Winter attrition down on you before the first Russian Tower is even built (and then
gets worse). Attrition slowly wears down your units, until they eventually die.
The only way to prevent this is to hustle them back to the homeland, and then into
the building in which they were made (or a City) to heal. Or, if you're rich and
ruthless, wring every last minute out of them and send in reinforcements as soon
as possible.
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 Supply Truck - Healing is one way to avoid
attrition. A better idea, if you are on the move into enemy territory, is to bring
along some Supply Wagons (which later become Supply Trucks). Supply vehicles prevent
attrition in enemy territory, for all units within their radius. And even if attrition
is not a factor, they are still very useful, as they increase the firing rate of
any of your siege or artillery units which are within their range. French Supply
vehicles also heal French troops. If you must invade Russia on the cheap, be
France.
 IGN Units Showcase #8
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