The way the game works is if you lose all your VH and your HQ fails a moral check the game ends. Since you did not have a HQ you could not make a moral check and thus the game ended.
Funny if you had just taken one of the VH's back the game would have continued.
You could always reload and we could continue if you would like or we could just start another. Your call. Let me know.
Good game. Was fun.
Remember that the big fish are much easier to see so we have to be sneakier.
