HQ tank units - How do you use them?

[Strela]

One of my complaints about them is that they are way too easy to confuse with battalion HQs as they are generally the same size and both have HQ markings. Since they don't serve any purpose as a HQ, such as calling artillery or rallying troops, wouldn't it be just as easy to create a platoon in the OOB that has one more tank than authorized so that you can combine your platoons into a full strength company? Then you wouldn't have to deal with all the extra single tank counters.

Hi Jeff,

That won't work unfortunately. If you were creating a 10 tank Soviet company with three platoons (two of three vehicles and one of four) you would need to have two different components and they couldn't combine.

Alternatively if you created three platoons of four and reduced by two vehicles the unit would permanently show as under strength - though it isn't.

You could create two platoons of five vehicles, but that would get a penalty for having less than three components.

Creating a single ten vehicle company counter sort of defeats the purpose.

I'm happy to hear suggestions....

David