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loki100 -> RE: T47 - Tula Sector (6/19/2014 6:54:21 AM)
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ORIGINAL: charlie0311
thx for the airdrop stuff, maybe only airdrop in clear when you get better recon.
questions as per your list.
1. 5 MPs or less from railhead as per air resupply?
8. shift, left click on which hex, the target, or the brigade? What is this business about highlighted target hexes?
9.is that the left click from 8, or something else, where should the mouse pointer be. Selecting units from unit bar on the right? the left part of the bar.
and even more, how about 2 brigades with the airbase? Is there something about transport cost (like sea movement) for air transport and what about capacity per plane?
there are so many airborne brigades how about 10 airbases and dropping 20 brigades, that would get the krauts attention real fast.
I'm a pretty mean bastard but even i wouldn't airdrop in 41. the reds were too worried about losing the war and getting shot. And not in blizzard. Airdrop in blizzard, huh, what are we talkin' here!! Maybe a little too windy, ya think.
Starting to blather, sorry
basically as above, select the airdrop mode, left click on an airbase with transports and paras, shift left click on a nearby hex, will show you all the places you can drop, pick your target.
Think carefully about night/day, depends on the number of fighters the Germans may have.
There are two main limits. One, you'll probably lose most of your brigades you drop and you can't rebuild. Second you lack for transport aircraft, which is why you often end up using Il-4s for the partisan war.
Soviets historically used airdrops in two distinct time frames. First winter offensive, lots of small, semi-botched drops in the AGC sector, but they kept the Germans worried. The large drop at Kanev in the 1943 Dniepr battles. Again botched (lack of transport aircraft) but again it threw the Germans off balance and added substantially to the partisan threat in that sector.
So yep, they did airdrops in the blizzard. They also did a naval invasion in temps of -10 and a gale - one reason why they were never that convinced about Allied caution over the Second Front.
edit - capacity etc. Every unit has a transport weight, every air unit has a transport capacity - number of planes * base value. Also the airdrop must be the first thing that transport unit does in a turn. So in combination, till you get the C-47s from lend lease, you'll struggle to get much more than a brigade or two a turn, the U2s being particularly poor due to low transport capacity (even if you can solve the range problem).
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