Ground combat in v2.7.1

Player Questions
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So you dont need an HQ in a formation if you dont care about boni then?

This means a moment of revelation, when I saw a message that HQ was destroyed followed by another that the related formation was wiped out, that was not due to the HQ destruction directly but simply because the HQ was the last unit to be destroyed in the formation ?

Hmm, this changes things. Cancel build, rework template.

Thanks for replying btw I appreciate it and I hope others find it useful too.

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I did not mention LVs because their location does not matter and they can be included in multiple formations and at multiple levels.

Oh and yeah, HQ destruction does not mean the destruction of a formation.

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Two caveats:

1\.  If HQ is the only "avoid combat" unit, it usually is the last unit in the formation left when it gets hit.
  1. LV-LOG do have restrictions, but placing in just a couple of spots covers almost everything. They do not cover “cousins, nieces, or nephews”. And nothing covers “up” the hierarchy, parents, granparents, etc.
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nuclearslurpee, I see your point about expense now as the new command template below is 575 vendarite. Requires x20 ideally, 11.5kt of vendarite just for command and logistics. May need to scale down to x10 or just go with one SHV per brigade. Will make an AAR at some point, Luytens is getting quite interesting.

2x SHV 2xCAP HQ50k arm130
5x Engineer CN-0.1 arm30
42x LV LOG GSP57k arm30