Yes.

Read the detailed combat report to see all the numbers in play.

<r> Dude: <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s> I'll make the best AT battalions I can and attach them to my infantry brigades <e>[/quote]</e></QUOTE> Or just leave them independent. You are aware that you can attach independent units to OHQs, yes? <br/> In an early war I'll recruit whatever I can obviously. Later ...

<r> Yes leaders have personalities, which is a big part of what makes this game interesting. You need to manage commanders the same way you manage all the rest of your leaders.<br/> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s> I am in turn 32 starting to recruit light tanks.<br/> <br/> Here is the selection of formations ...

More complicated? On the contrary, recruiting in bulk saves clicks and micro. Assigning leaders is a one time action. I can customize my fighting force too so I'm not even sure what you're talking about really.

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: Uemon<br/> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: AgentFransis<br/> <br/> Not using OHQs by the mid game is like fighting with militia. <e>[/quote]</e></QUOTE> <br/> Thats simply not true. You cant win a game with militias because you dont have control over reinforcements ...

<t> Not using OHQs by the mid game is like fighting with militia. Good commanders give insane multipliers that can increase attack and HP x5, x10 or more, completely overshadowing almost any tech or quality difference when fighting against independent units. Finding and nurturing good commanders is ...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>Manual<br/> <br/> 5.13.1.2. Linear Techs<br/> Some Techs are Linear Techs. They become useful from the first point of<br/> progress you have made on them and provide a bonus to something. The<br/> higher your progress the higher the bonus. They can be discovered and<br/> res...

<t> It's a linear tech... All techs in the three Applied <something> groups are linear which means their research cost increases exponentially as you approach 100% but every percent of progress conveys a bonus. In other words it will never finish on it's own and you need to manually switch the resea...

Field testing is the only way to get a good unit. Just doing designs over and over without field testing will only produce trivial improvements unless some of the rolls are exceptionally low.

The technician skill only reduces design time.

Yeah, post some screenshots of battles so we can analyze. Including the detailed combat reports.

ORIGINAL: zgrssd

The Road not taken

That was a nice read.

It's soft. You can see this by noting the attack/defense values used in the detailed combat report and comparing them to the unit card.

You can see the tech costs in the technology report. Click a tech and you get a description and the BP cost. It should really be in the tech tree tooltip, yes.

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: zgrssd<br/> <br/> it does make sense that a OHQ has issues coordinating a attack if it is <I><s>[i]</s>actively marching on the enemy<e>[/i]</e></I>. <e>[/quote]</e></QUOTE> Eh, the actual HQ is just the commander and his staff. The subunits directly under the OHQ ...

Driving tanks into their capital tends to do the trick. If you can't afford the happiness penalty something is seriously wrong with your empire and you need to fix that first.

<t> Aircraft are a good way to take your excess fuel and ammo reserves and literally dump them on your enemy. That sometimes even kills a few people as a nice bonus.<br/> <br/> Stick to land units for any serious warfare. At least until our engineers figure out aircraft weapons better than 1960s tec...

Pretty sure that only applies to zone<->SHQ transfer. You can't run pipes to your field units.

<t> When you reach the max range of what truck stations + supply depot can supply you have two basic choices:<br/> 1. Build new truck station up the road accepting the admin efficiency hit.<br/> 2. Colonize a new town to house the truck station.<br/> <br/> If you still have a long way to go before c...

<r> I'm not confused, I just pay attention. MGs only start with twice the raw firepower but later models have higher ratios.<br/> <br/> <br/> <br/> <IMG src="https://www.matrixgames.com/forums/upfiles/76398/318DB56F33D042C6BC8463E73FE59CC7.jpg"><s>[img]</s><URL url="https://www.matrixgames.com/forum...

<t> Machine guns are not primarily defensive. They're weaker than infantry in attack only at the very start of the game. With high speed machinegun (automatic rifle tech) they're about the same. With advanced machine gun they're about 50% better. With lasers they're twice as good at attacking and fo...