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el cid again -> RE: Creating Airborne/Para LCUs (8/4/2011 8:20:30 AM)
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ORIGINAL: Blackhorse
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ORIGINAL: inqistor
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ORIGINAL: Blackhorse
If I recall correctly, any infantry or engineer-type squad -- not just commando or parachute squads-- can be air-dropped, regardless of size, as long as the unit is classified as a 'parachute unit'.
Non-infantry device have to be size 7 or less in order to be air-dropped, and size 9 or less in order to be air-transportable.
What about this para-dropped Japanese tank unit? Can it be air-dropped? I have seen it in database, but have yet not seen it "in action".
I think all vehicles, Allies as well as Japanese, have a load cost "10" or higher, so none of them can be air dropped or air transported.
The size limit probably hurts the allies more: both the M24 Chafee light tank, and the 105mm M3 (short-barrel) howitzer were designed IRL to be air transportable, but cannot in the game, since the game engine does not allow for weapons or vehicles to be split or lightened for transport, then assembled on landing.
But it is easy to mod, if you want: just set the device load cost to "7" or less, if you want to make it parachute-capable, and "9" or less, if you want it to be air-transportable.
. . . and in order to be able to be para-dropped, the size 7-or-less device has to be in a parachute-defined LCU (symbol 13).
I confirm this procedure works. And it is also fairly realistic. If load cost is in terms of metric tons, then things of great values ought not be droppable. But many devices in the game are not defined at their actual weight. The values of 7 and 9 are somewhat incorrect: the actual value ought to be determined by the aircraft - not by the device being defined. But it isn't a bad compromise. And you can "cheat" if there is cause enough to justify it - define a 10 ton thing as 9 for example - and it becomes air transportable.
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