Pet Peeve HQ abuse

[Strela]

Hi,

I agree that it is certainly an area that is easily abused. On a project I am currently working on we have set HQ's at 50 men in strength. This is at all levels - Divisional up to Army group. They are set up as companies.

This has two impacts - they are extremely brittle if fired on with a reasonable chance of being completely eliminated with a few shots, or if not eliminated they accrue so much fatigue quickly that they become useless in the medium term.

This really forces a player to think twice before putting them anywhere in harms way.

We have also given them essentially zero factors other than defense. This includes AA values and actually requires a player to keep AA near their headquarters to reduce their vunerability to aircraft.

Finally, players need to read what HQ's actually do - they are so key to keeping a force 'in the fight' that if more players realised their importance the less of them would be in the front line....

David