Hey Steve. Maybe it's a new feature I missed, but I've started a few games recently and all my units only have about half the action points they usually have, like 30 or so. Obviously this puts you at a pretty big disadvantage, especially on games like Assassins. It's happened to me 4 or 5 times recently, enough now that I know I'm not imagining it! Most recently it happened on game 52543.
Armour is usually the biggest cause of low APs, especially heavy/superheavy. If a unit gets exhausted, this will halve their APs.
I've just had a look at that game, and your only surviving unit should have 57 APs? Let me know of any specific running games where the APs are low and I'll have a look.
Yes! Just for the first turn. I wasn't aware of this, but. now I am I can account for it. If it's the same for every player then I'm fine with it, I just lost a few games because I never read the forums :)