Command H.Q.

Released

1990 on DOS

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Ozark Softscape

Moby Score

7.5

#6,544 of 157K

Critics

76% (7)

Players

(17)

Ranking

#614 on DOS

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28 players

Genre: Simulation
Strategy
Perspective: Top-down
Pacing: Real-time
Gameplay: Real-time strategy
Wargame
Setting: Historical events
Narrative: War

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A one-on-one, real time strategy war game. Conquer the world or fight smaller battles. Choose your time period/scenario (1918, 1942, 1986, 2023, or ????); the later the date the more advanced the game. The 1918 games provide only land and sea units. 1942 adds air units and carriers. 1986 and beyond add nukes, satellites, oil considerations, and foreign aid.

You can create custom layouts (scenarios). Games can also be saved to "film" so you can watch them again. You can even watch the game up to a certain point and then start playing it.

As for opponents, you can play five different levels of computer opponent or a friend on another computer. Two person play requires a modem or serial link.

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コマンドＨ．Ｑ． - Japanese spelling

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Credits (DOS version)

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Original Game Design	Danielle Berry
Software Development (IBM)	Danielle Berry Alan Watson
Original Version Computer Graphics	Michael Reis Jackie Ross
Original Version Sound Effects	David Warhol
Project Managers/Manual Text	Douglas Kaufman Sandy Petersen
Print Media Director	Iris Leigh Idokogi
Manual Graphics	George Gill Michael Reis Matt Scibilia
Manual Spot Illustrations	Michael Reis
Manual Chapter Head Illustrations	Ken Zaruba
Manual Layout	Iris Leigh Idokogi Michael Reis Matt Scibilia Susan Ullrich
Command Summary Card	Susan Ullrich
Manual Editing	Ellen Markley Lawrence Schick
Packaging Design	Juanita M. Bussard Mark J. Ciola John Emory
Original Version Quality Assurance	Russ Cooney
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German version

The tagline on the German front cover translates to "A breathtaking, fast-paced strategy game; Global Conquest by Dan Bunten." [Global Conquest has not even been translated].

Considering the original tagline "A Fast Paced Game Of Strategic Global Conquest By Dan Bunten", it's pretty safe to say that the translator had absolutely no clue what the line actually meant.

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Nukes It seems that great game designers of the early 90s didn't agree on the environmental consequences of nuclear war. Remember how nukes created pollution, and thus global warming, in Sid Meier's Civilization? In Command H.Q., too many nukes loses you the game -- not because of global warming, but nuclear winter!

Awards

Computer Gaming World
- November 1991 (Issue #88) – Wargame of the Year (together with Warlords)
GameStar (Germany)
- Issue 12/1999 - #66 in the "100 Most Important PC Games of the Nineties" ranking

Information also contributed by EboMike and PCGamer77