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After dropping para units into battle they are disappearing after the contact with enemy even with support and supply's. Is there a patch or some way of retrieving them it's ruining my game play.

are you sure they weren´t wiped out?

the battles were won, support & supplies were present. I have lost para's after dropping them on an empty Island followed by support and supplies the next turn. The only thing I can think is they are swimming back to Pearl!

You are not supposed to drop paras on anything but a base (includes "dot" hexes) - bizarre things can occur if you do...

EDIT: The game was designed to drop on bases, and for a long time no one (afaik) in the design team thought you could do otherwise... but people came up with a way to circumvent the design...

When paras land, large chunks of the unit will often be destroyed in the shock attack... similar things can happen with regular units when they land on an atoll and automatically shock attack.

ORIGINAL: dc.gaming

After dropping para units into battle they are disappearing after the contact with enemy even with support and supply's. Is there a patch or some way of retrieving them it's ruining my game play.

What version are you running?

There was an old bug that caused units to disappear, especially when air dropped. The way around this bug was to wait a turn and allow the portion of the unit that was dropped first to change to the parent unit. Once that happened, you could usually drop the rest of the unit without it disappearing.

ORIGINAL: Charbroiled

ORIGINAL: dc.gaming

After dropping para units into battle they are disappearing after the contact with enemy even with support and supply's. Is there a patch or some way of retrieving them it's ruining my game play.

What version are you running?

There was an old bug that caused units to disappear, especially when air dropped. The way around this bug was to wait a turn and allow the portion of the unit that was dropped first to change to the parent unit. Once that happened, you could usually drop the rest of the unit without it disappearing.

Sounds like a variant of the "air transport" bug... which, afaik, is still around.

ORIGINAL: rtrapasso

ORIGINAL: Charbroiled

ORIGINAL: dc.gaming

After dropping para units into battle they are disappearing after the contact with enemy even with support and supply's. Is there a patch or some way of retrieving them it's ruining my game play.

What version are you running?

There was an old bug that caused units to disappear, especially when air dropped. The way around this bug was to wait a turn and allow the portion of the unit that was dropped first to change to the parent unit. Once that happened, you could usually drop the rest of the unit without it disappearing.

Sounds like a variant of the "air transport" bug... which, afaik, is still around.

I thought that they fixed it, but I'm not sure. I have been bitten by the "air transport" bug so many times that I just automatically use the work around just to be safe.

ORIGINAL: Charbroiled

ORIGINAL: rtrapasso

ORIGINAL: Charbroiled




What version are you running?

There was an old bug that caused units to disappear, especially when air dropped. The way around this bug was to wait a turn and allow the portion of the unit that was dropped first to change to the parent unit. Once that happened, you could usually drop the rest of the unit without it disappearing.

Sounds like a variant of the "air transport" bug... which, afaik, is still around.

I thought that they fixed it, but I'm not sure. I have been bitten by the "air transport" bug so many times that I just automatically use the work around just to be safe.

No - AFAIK it is still quite active... this could explain the "disappearance" of the paratroops, i fear.