I think the paratroops in game look to be working as I would like them to. I love the way paratroop drops work in the battle planner and I am looking forward to some island hopping.
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They can conquer small ones, sure. The UK home islands, when they're acting as a staging ground for the US? well ... you'd need a lot of parachutes.
Ok, yes that is true for the small samples of paratrooper gameplay we've seen so far. But the paratroops we've seen in WWW have been unsupported single units. If they had support companies say, Engineers, recon, artillery, rocket artillery and anti-tank, their soft & hard attack could be pretty dang good. (these supply companies represent the equipment that paratroops brought in with gliders; some paratrooper did have anti-tank and motors and so on. not big arty pieces obviously, but I think you can assign these support companies to your paratrooper division template. And multiple units of paratroops would be able to support each other and occupy a hard point. Imagine if the UK and US had dropped 12 units of paratroops on the Maginot line provinces instead of one unit in Berlin? Then Da9l would have really regretted his overlooking the defenses instead of just being embarrassed a little bit. They would of been dug in and hard as heck to destroy. Which leads me to my next question, indirectly related paratroopers.
Can you air drop supplies to provinces using your transports?? because Johan did not do this for the French troops (who became British after the Franco-British Union) dug In on the Maginot line, and I feel like if this was a working feature it would of been used by him to good effect right there. If you can do this then your paratroopers can hold and occupy effectively (by effectively I mean without awful supply penalties) until they are relieved. This is the one mechanic that concerns me with the paratroopers / transport planes, cause I read a long time ago supply drops would be a thing you could do but I haven't seen anyone do it.
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They can conquer small ones, sure. The UK home islands, when they're acting as a staging ground for the US? well ... you'd need a lot of parachutes.
Ok, yes that is true for the small samples of paratrooper gameplay we've seen so far. But the paratroops we've seen in WWW have been unsupported single units. If they had support companies say, Engineers, recon, artillery, rocket artillery and anti-tank, their soft & hard attack could be pretty dang good. (these supply companies represent the equipment that paratroops brought in with gliders; some paratrooper did have anti-tank and motors and so on. not big arty pieces obviously, but I think you can assign these support companies to your paratrooper division template. And multiple units of paratroops would be able to support each other and occupy a hard point. Imagine if the UK and US had dropped 12 units of paratroops on the Maginot line provinces instead of one unit in Berlin? Then Da9l would have really regretted his overlooking the defenses instead of just being embarrassed a little bit. They would of been dug in and hard as heck to destroy. Which leads me to my next question, indirectly related paratroopers.
Can you air drop supplies to provinces using your transports?? because Johan did not do this for the French troops (who became British after the Franco-British Union) dug In on the Maginot line, and I feel like if this was a working feature it would of been used by him to good effect right there. If you can do this then your paratroopers can hold and occupy effectively (by effectively I mean without awful supply penalties) until they are relieved. This is the one mechanic that concerns me with the paratroopers / transport planes, cause I read a long time ago supply drops would be a thing you could do but I haven't seen anyone do it.
