<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>Originally posted by skukko:<br/>
<B><s>[B]</s>Germans allthought helped us by supplying guns and infantry weapons. <B><s>[B]</s></B></B><e>[/quote]</e></QUOTE><B><B><br/>
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Not to nitpick, but during the Winter War<br/>
the Germans confiscated military equipment<br ...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>Originally posted by Wild Bill:<br/>
<B><s>[b]</s>I'd like to see a hypothetical invasion of Malta using German and Italian paras. I think it would be great! You gonna do it? <IMG src="http://www.matrixgames.com/ubb/biggrin.gif"><s>[img]</s><URL url="http://www.matrixgames ...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>Originally posted by Wild Bill:<br/>
<B><s>[b]</s>But I know that I don't and I hope others don't have a "punching bag" concept of the Italian soldiers during WW2.<br/>
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A lack of quality leadership and a lack of modernized weaponry were in my mind the biggest setbacks ...

The Italian cargo plane has zero FH armor. Give them a FH armor of 24 or something like that and they will fly right.[/B]

Thanks. That did the trick.

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>Originally posted by AckAck:<br/>
<B><s>[b]</s> i liked being the italians in previous versions but not in spwaw. they are totally worthless, (even their elite troops) which is a shame because their Trieste Division was top notch.<e>[/b]</e></B><e>[/quote]</e></QUOTE>

I ...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>Originally posted by AckAck:<br/>
<B><s>[b]</s> does that mean you tried raising their experience and it didn't work or are you saying that you didn't try it because you don't think it will make a difference.<br/>
<e>[/b]</e></B><e>[/quote]</e></QUOTE>

I don't think that ...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>Originally posted by Wild Bill:<br/>
<B><s>[b]</s>Okay, Joonas, I checked it and yes, you appear to be quite correct.<br/>
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I bought four Italian tranport planes and they all crashed.<e>[/b]</e></B><e>[/quote]</e></QUOTE>

The fact that this must have gone unnoticed for ...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>Originally posted by AckAck:<br/>
<B><s>[b]</s>i think it has to do with the inherent bad rating all italians are given. try raising their experience and morale and see if that helps<e>[/b]</e></B><e>[/quote]</e></QUOTE>

That would help them actually perform on the ...

<t>Cargo planes (Italian) and gliders (German) <br/>
crash if they contain Italian paras. This is<br/>
a problem specific to the Italians: German<br/>
and other airborne units are operating<br/>
perfectly well.<br/>
<br/>
I've tried altering the mission parameters but haven't found yet settings ...

<t>My apologies if this has been discussed before, but my Italian paratroopers are<br/>
suffering from a truly abysmal mission failure rate... <br/>
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When I try to airdrop paras from Italian cargo planes, they instantly crash on entering the map. I tried landing them <br/>
from German gliders ...