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When I want a unit to rest I put rest icon on hq unit,yet suborinates continue attacking?

Make sure to reattach subordinates if they have been given orders directly. If not that, then I don't know.

ORIGINAL: bairdlander

When I want a unit to rest I put rest icon on hq unit,yet suborinates continue attacking?

This may deal with the level of order delay (which you can set on the scenario selection screen). If you issue a rest order with in-situ formation (to make them stop "here and now"), then the order should reach the subunits within ~10 to 30 mins game time. The order delay in the game simulates the time it will take to pass an order from the HQ down the ranks to each and every company. In RL, this took minutes only (say when radios or field telephones were used), but it could also take 20 or even up to 45 mins if messengers (on motorbikes or jeeps) had to be sent out. Sometimes, the order didn't reach some of the Coys, at all, because the messengers didn't get through, or because they were captured/killed.

If you use any other formation than in-situ, the units will move to the location (where you put the order marker) and take positions according to the type of formation that had been issued, before they start to rest.

Make sure you put them in In Situ formation...should work. Also give the order at battalion level and the order delay prob be OK.