The ground force hierarchy construction stuff really was a much requested feature and it sounds great.
I've got another caveat though (yeah I have a "but" for everything
). I was recently testing to see if commanders of a parent formation actually apply their skill bonus to their subordinate formations and at least for the production and occupation boni it looked to me like they do not apply. (They apply to the units in their own formation, but not to the units in subordinate formations.)
I can't tell if any of the parent HQ skills at all actually apply to the subordinate formations and it would be a shame if they don't, because that would invalidate the benefit of the chain of HQs for ground forces.
Thread:
http://aurora2.pentarch.org/index.php?topic=13051.0I tried looking for documentation on the chaining of ground force HQ boni in the old C# changelogs, but I couldn't find any explanation for it. I only saw one post that said an explanation would be given in a later post, which I don't think actually happened.