France 14

[Feddar]

I have just start playing France 14, and am finding it rather hard to use. One major difficulty is finding the HQ for various units. Is there a way to find a unit's HQ, or do you have to look at the unit's chain of command, determine the HQ, then hunt for that HQ on the map? Surely there is an easier way that I am missing.

Any help would be much appreciated.

[Lowlander]

Top taskbar,
click view,
select Highlight from the list,
in the dialog box, select Headquarters.

Hope this helps.

[Feddar]

Thanks for the response.

I tried this, but it highlights all the HQs. Then you need to sift through all of them looking for the right one.

Is there any other way that is easier?

[Lowlander]

Again,
Top taskbar,
click view,
click Find Unit,
type in a ID,
Example, HQ 17 or HQ XVII,
a list of units will appear, select what you are looking for from the list.

Also if you right click and hold a units info box you will see that units organization.

[Feddar]

I'll give it a try.

But is there no easy way, like a button to click to move up the chain of command? Or a highlighting of the chain of command to the top?

[Ricky B]

The hotkeys are listed in the Main Program Help File, which may help with other questions.

For this specific question, I would suggest highlighting the unit you want to find the HQ for, and selecting Alt-O which highlights all units that fall under the next level above that unit, which should include that unit's HQ. It would then take a bit of searching for the HQ among the highlighted units, but it isn't too hard - I would hope that anything above the Brigade HQs are few enough in number that you can remember about where you left them.

And I think you can keep using Alt-O until you get to the very top and have everything highlighted.

Sorry but no other suggestions than that.

Rick

[Kuriltai]

I use the 2d zoom out view to find the Corps and Army level HQs... I also altered the 2dSymbolsSm file so the HQs stand out better...

[Feddar]

Thanks, guys. I'll give it a try.