imperialman
Admiral
I highly doubt this but would it be possible to place paratroopers on carriers? I can see quite a use for this. If it's not... I assume it would be able to be modded?
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Mercade
the Counsellor
This might be possible, you know. Many things are handled with unit properties. There may be a property that says "unit can be stationed on carrier". It can also work based on airplane versus missile classification. It depends a little on how it's implemented in Civ5, but it could be possible.I highly doubt this but would it be possible to place paratroopers on carriers? I can see quite a use for this. If it's not... I assume it would be able to be modded?
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stealth_nsk
Deity
All land units could just sail on their own.
imperialman
Admiral
I don't think land units would usually be able to sail over and behind mountain ranges or deep inland. The reason I like this idea is it would offer a great way of deploying forces into enemy territory without a whole D-Day situation (provided the paratroopers don't get shot down or something like that).
stealth_nsk
Deity
Ships couldn't sail mountains too, you know. Even amphibious ships
With the current system you'll be able to ship your paratroopers on water and drop them to the location, even over the mountains. What else do you need?
Paratroopers can travel on water by themselves, so it may be possible for them to paradrop directly from water. There's no need for a dedicated amphibious assault unit.
migkillertwo
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well bombers and "atomic bombs" can go on aircraft carriers, I see no reason why paratroopers couldn't stack on aircraft carriers.
Louis XXIV
Le Roi Soleil
Yeah, but can they paradrop from anywhere? Previous games require a city (or airfield).
Since they can't stack, they definitely need to be able to paradrop from anywhere, though we don't know if they can do it from water.
imperialman
Admiral
Ships couldn't sail mountains too, you know. Even amphibious ships
With the current system you'll be able to ship your paratroopers on water and drop them to the location, even over the mountains. What else do you need?
My attempt at sarcasm failed... I was trying to point out that combat units can be more effective if they can be inserted deep into a territory rather than have to go from coast to mountain. I am aware ships can't traverse mountains but helicopters or whatever animation used to deploy the paratroopers, can. If paratroopers can go airborne from the water as you say then I'm happy, I just didn't know that they could, thanks for the info I appreciate it!
stealth_nsk
Deity
Because paratroopers are land units. You can't fortify your bomber on a hill, or conquer a city with missile. You can't stack infantry.
imperialman
Admiral
My idea was to just put them on carriers rather than a special unit, If they can do it without a carrier by themselves then that serves my interests too though.
Again, the problem is that land unit can't stack, so you can't put more than one on a carrier. This is the same reason they don't have regular Transports.
imperialman
Admiral
Isn't it possible to alter the stacking rules on certain units? It's possible with missiles and aircraft, could it be made possible for paratroopers on carriers? I just makes sense to me to have to use aviation ships to deploy paratroopers from the ocean.
stealth_nsk
Deity
I don't see any reasons for this. Air units are specific, but rewriting combat rules for paratrooper is a little too much.
imperialman
Admiral
I believe I gave some reasons as to why it could be useful (It would make paratroopers useless when invading another continent surely?), but if they can already deploy airborne from water then it's fine as it is.
Louis XXIV
Le Roi Soleil
Hmmm, that's a good point. In that context, they might as well let them paradrop from water.
imperialman
Admiral
I believe this is an important question. Will paratroopers be essentially useless when invading another continent considering there would be no nearby city or airbase to fly from? This is why I think either letting them use carriers somehow or letting them air drop from water tiles is a good idea.
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I think it would make most sense that they can stack on aircraft carriers, I mean when they're packed onto planes and helicopters they take up just as much space as bombers.
The ability to paradrop from anywhere would make absolutely no sense and would give them an extremely unfair advantage. My proposal is that paratroopers have to be adjacent to a city or fort/airbase in order to paradrop and that there is a limit of 2 or 3 paratroopers each turn that each airport can drop.
The ability to paradrop from anywhere would make absolutely no sense and would give them an extremely unfair advantage. My proposal is that paratroopers have to be adjacent to a city or fort/airbase in order to paradrop and that there is a limit of 2 or 3 paratroopers each turn that each airport can drop.
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I think it's a good idea to let them drop from carriers only. If we had paratroopers able to paradrop from "transport" ships then it would be insanely unrealistic. The amount of resources to build paratroopers is nowhere near the amount needed to build an amphibious assault ship.
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