Transport Planes work the same like regular planes. They sit on the airfield and you assign them to areas and give them missions like dropping supply for example.
I wouldnt say the Me 323 had an considerable impact historically. Sure, they could transport an large amount of troops and supplies but were giant targets for the allied airforces and suffered heavy losses. It is an completly different story if the germans had air superiority of course. An big problem they also had was, that they basicly couldnt abort the landing, since the high mounted engines caused the nose to pitch down if throttling up.
), and am going through British Cruisers at the moment. Turns out at least three so far were sunk by Ju88s, so had the 88 in my head. I agree that the C-54 was a more capable transport than the C-47 (and that the Germans developed better transports as well), but apart from maybe getting a bit more bang for buck in terms of factory usage, beyond that what difference does it make in a gameplay sense? It's a bit like the merchant ships that will be coming off the slips in 1943 will be better than those in 1936, but not by so much as to change their role.
Well, they surely will come in handy on the eastern front and in Africa. Other than that i would say that an reasonable paratrooper force is essential for an successful operation sealion. You wont straight up mass produce them of course, but probaby an reasonable amount. Maybe something that you let run aside with low priority on 1 or 2 factories.
Aye, sorry, I've been putting some data on ships together (something to do while I wait for HoI4
Don't get me wrong, I'd be happy with having either having a tiered tree of transports and hope that if it's not in the game, it'll be moddable, but given they're not fighting aircraft, and the role of a C-47 isn't so different from that of a C-54 (what was the different in carrying capacity between the two?), but in a game that abstracts out CVEs to a tech bonus, having one level of transport plane seems reasonable.
