Negative Resources

[UKScud]

I have a quick question for anyone that has noticed.

Say you have been given some strategic resources, like iron, in a peace settlement. Now, that deal lasts for 30 turns. In that time you build a unit that requires that resource, say a trebuchet.

When that 30 turn deal expires, do you lose the unit?

What if its a building that requires a resource? The reason I ask is that in my first game as the English I noticed that my coal dipped as low as -5 on occasions.

Negative Resources? What's happening there? Is there an associated penalty?

 

[Ultimate_Waffle]

Higher maintenance costs on said units/buildings.

 

[wilmer007]

yeah i have -2 horses and i noticed that in the combat odds it says strategic resource penalty 50% does that mean my upkeep goes up by 50% or that in battle i take a 50% penality to combat odds? so instead of dealing 4 damage in battle i'll deal 2 instead?

 

[Louis XXIV]

I believe there is a combat penalty. It might be both.