I'm trying to figure out if sacrificing my own units or destroying my support cards is possible without playing a card with an affect which explicitly says to do so.

I can't find anything in the rules (maybe i'm missing it) that says i can or can not do so.

The reason i would want to do this is to remove a building or unit in my questing zone so that I decrease the number of cards i'm drawing each turn. It might be useful to do so in late game when i'm drawing 5-6 cards a turn, and i'm about to run out of cards in my draw deck (and lose the game). If i decreased the number of hammers in my questing zone, i would decrease the cards i'm drawing each turn, and be able to hold out a little longer in the game. Maybe enough time for my units to burn my opponents city.

I'm going off the assumption that I can not do this because It doesn't clearly say so in the rules, but at the same time it seems possible since i control my support and unit card, and should be able to do with them what I wish. (as a king I could tell my HE spear men "we don't require your services on our quest any longer, go away" and they would stop questing for me). Trying to use fluff to think why it would make sense

If its been covered already in these forums, or somewhere else, i would appreciate the link.

Thanks a bunch. And tons more questions/ interpretations to come from me !

This game rocks!!

I do see where your coming from in a fluff sense (apart from orcs I cant see them deciding to leave a battle any time soon) but being able to remove cards without needeing cards like pillage grudgethrower demolition ect would just not work from a gameplay standpoint.

I havent seen it explicity in the rules to say you cant but as you said it isn't in the rules to say you can.

You can't do it without a card effect.

That said, I have won games before where I blew up my own unit (e.g. with Flames of Tzeentch) to avoid decking myself.

Why worry about sacrifice when you can just play Empire, deploy units to provide drawing power as needed, then move them?

Maybe there are better ways. I only have the base set. I've told myself I need to get at least 20 games under my belt before I buy any more !