i thiunk food could be better as a morale gage for troops in the feild. if cut-off from supply, army must forage and brings morale down. cutting off food for and not seiging a city...but cutting off food supply to a city *IS* seiging it. i would suspect that some functions may already been written for food if they just stoped using the food stat. whish some devs could dimension that better for us.