Question:
If an Allied airborne HQ is air transported to an airbase in its airborne mode, without heavy equipment, may it form its division if all other components are in the hex? Can it provide support to all units in the hex?

Answer:
Yes. A sentence is missing from Rule 24E. The rule is repeated below, with the missing sentence added (it’s the one in italics).

E. Allied Airborne HQs

The HQ of an Allied airborne division has two sides: an airborne HQ side and a parachute HQ side:

  • The airborne HQ can be carried in a regular transport mission, as a 1-RE unit without heavy equipment. It is not air droppable.
  • The parachute HQ can be dropped in an air drop mission, as a 1-RE unit without heavy equipment. This HQ is marked with the self-supported dot, which indicates that it may only provide support to 1 RE of units. It cannot provide support at all if disrupted.

The Allied player may not use a parachute HQ to assemble a broken down airborne division: only the airborne HQ side may he used to reassemble the division.

A player may freely convert the HQ between its parachute and airborne sides during his initial phase, provided the HQ can trace a supply line to a regular source of supply.

Source:
TEM 43/44