Airborne Assault?

[unmerged(56574)]

Hi,

In my current game (german 1936) ive just finished off france and the low countries and im now turning my attention to a a crippled UK hpoing to puppet them before Russia attacks.

Anyways i planned to invade by air at a weak province with a port then ship in reinforcements quickly yo try and avoid the RN spoling my day, anyways for some reason my transport planes have no option on airborne assault? ive loaded them with paratroopers but all they can do is air supply. Ive already done an airborne assault previously in this game aswell.

The transport planes are improved and the paras are 1939 model, ne ideas why?

Cheers

 

[playadirtyone]

Have you developed all of the necessary techs?

 

[vicentep]

The right Tech

And the full organization other wise...
I htink is very hard to do something like land on Uk, im not shure you have the range also...

 

[Manoa]

Airbrone Assault

If you have the latest techs you should be able to reach Norwich from a coastal base, but you will not be able to drop in bad weather. On the other hand, if the RN is at strength, I doubt you can succeed in getting any troops over by transport and your airborne units will probably be unable to resist a counterattack even if they take the beach on their drop. I have found that the best way to insure a successful invasion of Britain in 1939 is to build at least five carriers and wipe out the RN. That makes the whole process easy to accomplish before 1941.

 

[Manoa]

One more thing. You cannot puppet Britain. It is extremely difficult to even force a decent peace on Britain because it has such vast colonial resources and provinces with VP's. You need to plan to build a lot of garrisons for Britain. You can save some resources by liberating Scotland to become a puppet.

 

[unmerged(3221)]

Air transports need to be at full org. Click on them and look at their division stats page near the top to see if it's full org.

You also have to be within range: do you have any interceptors or fighters in the air transport formation to protect the air transports as that would lower their range. [BTW how are others handling this since air transports can not attach escort brigades?]

Weather can also stop any air operations.

 

[Spruce]

hm, did you guys notice that you can't drop paratroopers on your own land ? This would be nice to secure sailants after they have been overrun by the enemy

 

[Tux the Penguin]

hm, did you guys notice that you can't drop paratroopers on your own land ? This would be nice to secure sailants after they have been overrun by the enemy

You can do drops on your own lands. Just hold down the CTRL key while a transport has troops in it.