Help with warfare across oceans

[PieceOfMind]

Easier said than done.

Firstly, not every one of your airport cities are going to have factories and power plants (where you would rushbuy) and your factory cities may not have airports. Secondly, using the whip is not ideal in many cities for many reasons including happiness issues, city size, not owning Kremlin etc. Thirdly, what if all your units (or at least most of them) are coming from one city and your others have more important things to build? Fourthly, what about the units you have used in a previous battle, sitting in a pile in the middle of your empire? You can't just leave them behind if you're really going into a tough battle (the war is not won yet). I could list other reasons but in most games I play it's never as simple as rush-buying units and simply airlifting them the next turn.

In an ideal world there'd be a button that you could press when you had a stack of units selected, sending every one of the units to nearby airports and ordering them to wait once they reach the airports, so the next turn they can be airlifted.

 

[CDegeyter]

OK I started a new continent map to try out all of the advice I got here. (THANKS!)

I secured my continent by defeating 2 other civs and accepting one as my vassal.
Then I build a few transporter ships to transport troop across the ocean. I managed to take a city and then as soon as flight was in I build airports in my military towns and the beachhead town that I secured. My problem now is that I can airlift a unit to the beachhead town from one airport but then no more units can be airlifted to that same town on that turn. Am I misunderstanding or doing something wrong?

 

[Ghpstage]

OK I started a new continent map to try out all of the advice I got here. (THANKS!)

I secured my continent by defeating 2 other civs and accepting one as my vassal.
Then I build a few transporter ships to transport troop across the ocean. I managed to take a city and then as soon as flight was in I build airports in my military towns and the beachhead town that I secured. My problem now is that I can airlift a unit to the beachhead town from one airport but then no more units can be airlifted to that same town on that turn. Am I misunderstanding or doing something wrong?

You can airlift any number to a city, but only 1 unit from a city. Just use all your cities with airports.

 

[CDegeyter]

I thought I tried that. I have units in several towns but once I airlifted one unit from Rome to the beachhead city, on the same turn I tried to airlift one unit from Ulm to the same city and the city sould not turn green to let me land him. It stayed grey until the following turn. I'll try again in a bit.

 

[SeptimusOctopus]

This has always been my experience with airports. I thought a city can receive one, and only one unit per turn regardless of whether or not it has an airport. The airport is just there for sending units. I'm not certain, but that seems like what I've encountered.

 

[Stewie0416]

Wait, couldn't you have a alternate ending for a culture victory with all those artists around? You could make a strange blitz with tanks and a army of GAs!!!! GA pop city, city buys a airport, have 3 other cities produce MGs indefinitely with Airports, fly in and allow your tanks to move on!
Of course you could only get so far with GAs....

 

[Yxklyx]

This has always been my experience with airports. I thought a city can receive one, and only one unit per turn regardless of whether or not it has an airport. The airport is just there for sending units. I'm not certain, but that seems like what I've encountered.

Not for me in BTS - maybe there was a change. I just loaded up a save game. I was able to airlift a bunch of units into my capitol (which has an airport). Maybe if the city is in revolt you're limited to one or maybe city size is important? If you have 20 cities, you can in theory airlift 20 units in providing it has an airport. Flight is pretty awesome: you get a very versatile unit and a very useful building.

 

[CDegeyter]

I just tried again and I cant airlift more than one. Is there possibly something else I need to build or tech? I am running BTS with the latest patch and the only mods I am running are blue marble and BUG

 

[Yxklyx]

I just tried again and I cant airlift more than one. Is there possibly something else I need to build or tech? I am running BTS with the latest patch and the only mods I am running are blue marble and BUG

You're sure the destination city has an airport as well? Just checking...

 

[PieceOfMind]

OK I started a new continent map to try out all of the advice I got here. (THANKS!)

I secured my continent by defeating 2 other civs and accepting one as my vassal.
Then I build a few transporter ships to transport troop across the ocean. I managed to take a city and then as soon as flight was in I build airports in my military towns and the beachhead town that I secured. My problem now is that I can airlift a unit to the beachhead town from one airport but then no more units can be airlifted to that same town on that turn. Am I misunderstanding or doing something wrong?

You're sure the destination city has an airport as well? Just checking...

I'm also just checking. I'm nearly 100% certain that if the destination city has an airport, then airlifting a unit there shouldn't be greyed out.

Is it perhaps in civil disorder? That's about the only reason I could think of but even with that I'm not sure.

What I tend to do with airports is build them in most of my trade cities and a few hammer cities. When I am preparing for invading another continent I try to find a small island nearby that continent where I will build a rubbish city but rushbuy an airport there. Then that becomes the point from where I send my transports to and fro, airlifting from all my major cities to that one city. It's much nicer when transports have a 2 or 3 turn trip than when they have a 7 turn or so trip.

 

[SeptimusOctopus]

I opened up worldbuilder to check. You guys are right, you can airlift multiple units into a city if that city has an airport. Maybe it changed somewhere along the line, or I just forgot to build an airport in the destination city each time.

 

[MosheLevi]

Just rushbuy/whip a unit in each city across your 30+ city empire back home. That means you are reinforcing your army with 30+ units every couple of turns. That should be enough to ensure your victory.

How do you rushbuy/whip units in cities?

I am not familiar with this feature.

 

[CDegeyter]

How do you rushbuy/whip units in cities?

I am not familiar with this feature.

If you have the slavery civic you can whip your population in order to hurry the current build in that city. With Democracy there is a civic that is enabled (forgot which) that will let you spend money instead of population to quickly finish a build. Of course the further along into the item you wait before rushing/whipping then the lower the cost to complete the item.

Both of buttons these are in the city advisor screen.