Is there a Paratrooper Timer?

[Ssssnake529]

Paratroopers seem to somewhat randomly not drop.

I get a "no divisions" message on the planning arrow, and they simply don't launch. (I have 100% air superiority in the landing and origin areas, the base is not overloaded with planes, and I have plenty of transports.)

The interesting thing is that it doesn't happen consistently. I will drop paratroopers and they work just fine. Then, I try to drop them again, and they get this "no divisions" thing.

Makes me wonder if paratroopers are on a timer, and you have to wait a certain amount of time before they will launch.

I see a lot of old threads in the forums where paratroopers don't launch, but nobody seems to have an answer either.

Anyone know?

 

[Ironside121]

No divisions just means you haven't assigned divisions to it.

Click the divisions you want to give the order to, hold Ctrl and left click on the planning arrow. If it doesn't let you do this, then they're not divisions that can be paradropped so you may have accidentally added something else to their templates.

Most other paradropping issue threads are because there may be a bug, or they may not understand how it's working- in your case it's different since there are no divisions trying to paradrop in the first place.

 

[LiberiusX]

Paratroopers seem to somewhat randomly not drop.

I get a "no divisions" message on the planning arrow, and they simply don't launch. (I have 100% air superiority in the landing and origin areas, the base is not overloaded with planes, and I have plenty of transports.)

The interesting thing is that it doesn't happen consistently. I will drop paratroopers and they work just fine. Then, I try to drop them again, and they get this "no divisions" thing.

Makes me wonder if paratroopers are on a timer, and you have to wait a certain amount of time before they will launch.

I see a lot of old threads in the forums where paratroopers don't launch, but nobody seems to have an answer either.

Anyone know?

@Ironside121

I was going to write a reply about how I'm experiencing the same problem as OP. While taking a screenshot, I realized it said "0 transports"...0 transports? I have 150 transports...

OP, Make sure your transports have air supply turned off. They can't air supply and paradrop at the same time

 

[LiberiusX]

Also, as a separate point, I also ran into a problem where if I had only a few airborne divisions selected and tried to paradrop, it would tell me "no divisions".

This is most certainly a bug, because if I take all the airborne divisions and dump them into another army, deleting their old army, and then put them back in their own new army, it temporarily fixes the issue.