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ORIGINAL: morvael

...so the procedure works as described. Maybe you have problems with having not enough transport units, too low supply, too weak airborne unit, railhead too far away?

1. I may not have enough transport units, however if I add up the total "load" of all the elements of the brigade I have a great deal of excess capacity on the 36 Li-2s in the hex.
2. It's sitting on a functional railline with the HQ adjacent about 10 hexes in the rear of the front.
3. It's possible it's too weak I guess. Define "too weak." Last turn it was a 6-16 with every element 51 experience or better, but the unit is inexplicably much weaker this turn, with some elements a paltry 14 experience. Not sure why, the unit didn't move, wasn't attacked and remains in supply. Stupid political officers!

Thanks for the attention Morvael.

Another thing to remember is that a division cannot be dropped ( too big [:@] ) so you are limited to brigades.

Soviet units undergo TOE changes a lot; that brigade probably swapped in some new elements and they tend to take a big experience drop from what the replaced pieces were at.

Do German para units do airdrops? I have broken the German para division into regiments, followed all the updated steps and can't get the regiment to drop. The airbase is within 1 mp and hex of the rail head. Experience of the regiment is high, lots of MPs left on them. JU52s haven't been used this turn. The only possible problem that I can think of is that moral of the JU52s is 45, although the interface will allow me to drop supplies/fuel. What am I missing?? Thanks for any help you can provide.

ORIGINAL: cyqq

Do German para units do airdrops? I have broken the German para division into regiments, followed all the updated steps and can't get the regiment to drop. The airbase is within 1 mp and hex of the rail head. Experience of the regiment is high, lots of MPs left on them. JU52s haven't been used this turn. The only possible problem that I can think of is that moral of the JU52s is 45, although the interface will allow me to drop supplies/fuel. What am I missing?? Thanks for any help you can provide.

It an Air Landing unit or para?

I think units brigade-size and smaller that are not divided bigger units can be dropped. Which means no drops for the Germans.

Haven't tried latest version but German regiments always used to drop. Airlanding doesn't though. Think it was an infantry division trained to travel in aircraft rather than a glider or para unit.

It is a para unit: subunit 1/7th Flieger Division. I am playing the version which has been in effect since the May 2012 update (i.e. not the new beta).

There are two German airborne infantry units in 1941- 22 Air Landing belonging to 11 Armee and 7 Flieger, which makes a brief appearance in late summer/autumn. The former does not do drops, that latter does, or certainly used to, don't see why it shouldn't still.