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Or, is the only way to determine where a unit under a restricted HQ can be moved to a matter of trial and error?

ORIGINAL: HansBolter

I understand that units with unclickable white text are permanantly restricted and units with clickable yellow text can be reassigned to unrestricted HQs.

What I don't seem to have a clue with regard to is the actual geographic restrictions of the restricted HQs.

Is there any source of ingame information that defines the geographical areas of each HQ? Can this be found on the overall strategic map?

Or, is the only way to determine where a unit under a restricted HQ can be moved to a matter of trial and error?

I have uncovered at least one unresonable restriction to restricted HQs, Australia. Since Australia has no railroad connection to the NW coast from the more heavily populated and defended areas, the only effective way to get troops to Darwin to defend it is to ship them there. However, restricted HQ units cannot be loaded onto transports so they can be shipped to Darwin and other locations on the NW coast. This leaves only the partial rail/trail route as a means of getting troops to the area. Just because these troops cannot be shipped out of the country does NOT mean thay would not be shipped down the coast to another Australian city! The restriction is absolutely unreasonable.

As an alternative to the slow land route, I can spend political capital to reassign the unit to an unrestricted HQ, ship it ot teh city I want it to defend and then spend yet more political capital to reassign back to teh original restricted HQ. Again, completely unreasonable.

ORIGINAL: HansBolter

Does the strategic map show bases or units?

Thanks for the responses.

It seems kind of short sighted to me to expand the game to include tons and tons of intracoastal shipping and NOT allow commands consisting of multiple islands to ship troops between the islands of thier commands. It would seem the only use the plethora of 4000 endurance freighters have is to run away from the Japanese to avoid handing them free victory points. Why include all of them in the game if we can't use them for thier intended purpose?

I'm sure I'll get admonished for this criticism with the standard reply that creating a control mechanism that allows shipping only between restricted command ports would have required time and effort that would have detracted from more improtant game mechanisms that needed work. For me, the bottom line is that "restricted coomands" still haven't been fully and properly implemented and it looks like we'll have to wait for the next version for some one to give them the polish they need.