witpqs
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ORIGINAL: HansBolter quote:
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ORIGINAL: Dili Does not have to be classified as commandoes? IIRC, should be para capable unit to be loaded on a sub in combat mode. Commando is just a name in this game, not a designation the code recognizes. Which is odd to the maximum because commando IS a device type that one has limited supplies of. A few things. First off, Commando is a name, not a device type. If you took all the units that currently incorporate the word Commando in their name and changed it to something else, nothing else would change. The game has device types AFV, Squad, etc. but no Commando. Second, the code makes that decision at the unit level, not the device level. Units with the word Commando in the name are not special to the code. But the para capable flag/bit does set apart a unit (regardless of what it is named). So that's what they used. They fully acknowledged that it was a compromise. I have no doubt at all that if they had the luxury of coding it however they consider 'ideal' that it would be different. Just to be clear, I am not arguing that it should be the way that it is, I'm just explaining it as I recall the developers explained it. The code has sufficient discernment to prevent a para engineer device from being airdropped along with the rest of the devices of a para battalion. There is a limit based on the 'size' of the device. Maybe it's called 'load factor' or something. There is also a limit based on what the particular transport plane can carry. But there is definitely a hard limit on what can be para dropped. Note that air transporting into a friendly base with a runway (or by flying boat) is not the same as para dropping. Some devices which cannot be para dropped can be air transported if the plane is large enough. Why doesn't it have sufficient discernment to differentiate a commando squad device from any other ordinary kind of infantry squad device? Just ain't coded in, Bro.
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