I've searched the forums and been unable to find answers to the following questions, I'm curious both official responses, and gameplay responses from people that own/play the game.

Question 1:

If you have allied neutral units and you only have 1 of your units, then winter rolls along can you lose neutral units to meet the winter required food supply limits or must you lose your empire's units?

Question 2:

With the card "Fires from Heaven" a city is destroyed. Can you now build fortresses on the tile with the razed city?

Question 3:

When it mentions "Higher initiative order" does it mean higher on the card or higher in actual real number? (For example: Razor wings can rout a unit with initiative 2 or higher, thus can it route 2 or 1 init units or 2-5 init units)?

Question 4:

I've seen this mentioned in the forums that the food check for winter only happens once and does not apply after, (thus you can recruit during winter and violate your food supply) is this the official response on this season?

Thanks for your responses.

Smaggler said:

You can lose the Neutrals. They are essentially yours while allied.

Smaggler said:

Yes. (This has been confirmed with Corey)

Smaggler said:

2-5. The point of the Razorwings is they can rout the slower units before they get a chance to act.

Smaggler said:

The Winter food supply check is only done at the beginning of the winter season. It's not checked again until the next winter. Thus, if you recruit, move, etc, during Winter, you are only bound by the 8-unit limit. This is official, as Corey has responded on this matter.

never mind ...

Thanks for the quick responses.