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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Screenshots

Command H.Q. PC-98 Yay, USA sends a big army! :)

Command H.Q. PC-98 It's 2023, and USSR still exists?.. :)

Command H.Q. PC-98 What, you didn't like the title screen? So here's another one, red. With tanks and planes :)

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Promo Images

Command H.Q. Magazine Advertisement Page 98

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Alternate Titles

"コマンドＨ．Ｑ．" -- Japanese spelling

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User Reviews

True "Beer and Pretzels" gaming!	DOS	Tim Scott (7)
Before BattleNet, it was 2400 baud time!	DOS	woods01 (163)

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Critic Reviews

PC-Spiele '92	DOS	1991	9 out of 10	90
Computer Gaming World (CGW)	DOS	Nov, 1991		90
Computer Gaming World (CGW)	Macintosh	Jun, 1991		90
Power Play	DOS	Mar, 1991	87 out of 100	87
The Good Old Days (Staff Reviews only)	DOS	Mar 01, 2000	5 out of 6	83
Joker Verlag präsentiert: Sonderheft	DOS	1993	70 out of 100	70
ASM (Aktueller Software Markt)	DOS	May, 1991	6.8 out of 12	57
Play Time	DOS	Oct, 1991	53 out of 100	53

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Trivia

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.

Network play

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

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