HQ companies

[Cobetco]

so i'm getting back into combat mission after a bit of a hiatus, and i go to warm up my memories in a quick battle only to find the headquaters section for the US medium tank battalions (and most other battalions too) is missing from quick battle, it exists in the scenario editors unit menus however. I only wonder what happened to it because it was the only way to get the Sherman 105 Support platoons besides buying them individually.

[womble]

Generally, sections of formations seem to be elided from the QB selection menu when large components of those formations contain elements which would not be permitted by the "type" of unit (Infantry Only, Mech Inf, Armour Only - note the specification of "only"; that changes in Scenario editor to "Infantry" and "Armour"). The full HQ company is mostly jeeps and half tracks and mortars. I imagine that's why the company is excluded.

If you want a load of 105 Shermans, though, the other companies of the battalion can between them provide 4, and there's nothing to stop you taking another battalion and stripping all but the necessary HQ Shermans and the assault guns to get another 4 for a surcharge of 50 points; strip a few more 75 Shermans out of the first battalion to get the points, and don't worry too much about the "gamey" OOB you get, since QBs are inherently more "game" than "historical" anyway.