Tue Sep 16, 2014 8:51 am
HQs give three benefits: 2 extra CPs, (same as a signal Corps) faster Cohesion recovery, (same as a Medical unit) and XP bonus (same as a Training Master). They are awesome, but expensive. I put them in the largest stacks that will see the most combat. They give their effects to any stack they are in, it does not HAVE to be an Army. If you keep your Army stacks small and use them as reserves put the HQ up front in a Corps.
The ledger is clunky, but if you tinker with it it can give you useful info. Not sure if you are saying that you think the ledger CAN easily show which is your best unassigned general or if you are saying that it CANNOT easily show which is the best general. It definitely CAN, but it needs a specific combination of filters and sorting to do so, which is not readily apparent. The Regions tab on the ledger is really useful too, it can show you what regions are giving you the most resources, and more importantly which ones give VPs and need to be guarded. Also, the Region tab accurately takes into account NM and loyalty when figuring out production, unlike Cntrl-click on the map which only shows the structures in the cities and their base production values.