How to do Paratroop Drops??

[Capt Cliff]

I have a Para Korp in Sicily and want to drop it on Malta!! It's size is 20 and I have 3 air transport units but I can not drop the para unit. Is air transport 20 to 1 like ship transport or 1 to 1 or what?! The manual does not say!

[ComadrejaKorp]

It's 1 transport for 20 paratroops.
Paratroops can't land on beach hexes

[ago1000]

ORIGINAL: ComadrejaKorp

It's 1 transport for 20 paratroops.
Paratroops can't land on beach hexes

Also Efficiency has to be 100%

[Capt Cliff]

ORIGINAL: ago1000

ORIGINAL: ComadrejaKorp

It's 1 transport for 20 paratroops.
Paratroops can't land on beach hexes

Also Efficiency has to be 100%

My Efficiency IS at 100% An I have 3 air units but no joy on dropping the AB unit!

[Nirosi]

Also, it can only drop on empty hexes. So if Malta is occupied, you can only do a landing on the adjacent beach hex. If the attack from the beach eventually destroys the Malta garrison (blockade the port and bomb the unit for quite a few turns before), but you have no movement left to advance, then you can use the para that same turn to capture it before the UK can send another unit.

[ComadrejaKorp]

ORIGINAL: ago1000

ORIGINAL: ComadrejaKorp

It's 1 transport for 20 paratroops.
Paratroops can't land on beach hexes

Also Efficiency has to be 100%

They must also take off from a hexagon that is valid to deploy aviation (:

[michaelCLARADY]

ORIGINAL: ComadrejaKorp

ORIGINAL: ago1000

ORIGINAL: ComadrejaKorp

It's 1 transport for 20 paratroops.
Paratroops can't land on beach hexes

Also Efficiency has to be 100%

And not adjoining an enemy unit

They must also take off from a hexagon that is valid to deploy aviation (:

[havoc1371]

I find the airborne rules overly burdensome. You need to be an an hex capable of air ops, have 100% effectiveness, and good weather. On top of this, weather can drain effectiveness, so you can prepare for turns, only to have it go to 99% because of weather. I gave up and just used them as infantry rather than endlessly try to prepare them every turn and waste supply units on them.