A0 Headquarters unit

[Mobhack]

Starmyth said:
The default HQ unit is a group of six men who apparently are INF primary rated. Besides being cautious of obvious time constraints, what significant detriments are there to making the HQ an armor unit with ARM primary rated to command an armor batallion?

It is a heatquarters type unit - and therefore has better artillery response delay than any other unit other than FOO.

If you change it to a vehicle type, you will lose the extra arty command, and as others have posted, you will have exchanged something from a relatively survivable jeep-load of officers to a single vehicle which can be killed in one stroke (and is more atrractive to strile planes !

I leave mine as-is in any campaign, unlike say SP1, where converting 1 unit of the 24 or so of the max core size could help influence the game by actually using the HQ as a fighting unit. The extra panther (used carefully) could swing things there.

Cheers
Andy