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KingHalford -> RE: Top Tips for Starting Players (6/6/2020 1:22:42 PM)
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Not necessarily, although they are very useful for that. I tend to recruit them anytime I need a unit quickly, usually to counter some kind of threat that's popped up, or to guard something. It's handy to have Independent Units to attach to OHQs as necessary: early game candidates for that are Motorbikes for recon, and Buggies as a nice early game tank substitute. Once you're done using them there, you can detach them and send them over to another OHQ (or keep it independent as needed). These two units are also never found as part of a Formation, so will always be Independent Units.
Later, you'll do the same with Rockets/Missiles, and often with Heavy Armour and other very expensive units that would be overkill to own in any great quantity.
Depending on circumstances, there can be good reasons to have your formations contain artillery or armour mixed in (Siege Infantry or Assault Infantry respectively). I put a post up on here replying to a question by Balto which was something like "Why would you ever used mixed formations instead of just independent attachments". That might be helpful as I did some basic maths and some examples of situations where such formations might be preferable to Independents.
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