Is there a way you can use helicopters to air drop units from a ship? I'm thinking that it would be cool to carry helicopters on an assualt ship and use them to deploy foot units (paratroops and marines with updraded defence / attack), is there a way of doing this? I've made a few atempts but it seems like you cant carry transports on transports? If anyone can think of away of getting round this it would be great, cheers!
Airdrops from assault ships?
- Thread starter sjpashler
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Tony Soprano
Centrist
As far as I know you can't carry a tranport on a transport, the game is hard coded that way
GenMarshall
High Elven ISB Capt & Ghost Agent
yep, I even tried that once, but it did not worked. I tried to make the Mech Inf carry land units, it worked but it will not load onto ships.
Hunter
Civ Addict
You could in theory (I have not tried this yet) give the ship transport Capacity and the Airdrop option thus bypassing the helicopters. Worst case you just have to use the helicopters figit animation (what it uses for airdrop animation) into the ships ini. for the airdrop function.
Didn't think of that, I'll give it a try.. have you had any luck getting it to work? I take it that means the ship would only be able to do 1 airdrop per turn? or maybe theres a way of giving it more turns? I cant remember how all the options in the editor work.. I'll definetly be giving this a go, thanks!
Tacit_Exit
King
Giving the ship the 'airdrop' ability will just allow the ship to be airdropped from an airport (theoretically;haven't tested).
Theres no unit ability that simulates the Airport/Airfield function.
Hygro
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Oh hunter that's a good idea, I should try that!
Gunnar Thor
Chieftain
Making for some rapid deployment of carriers and battleships indeed.
