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Airborne question
Posted: Fri Dec 01, 2017 12:55 pm
by IBender
In the attached picture you see an airborne division sitting with an airplane unit. The airplane unit is an Ardo...which is a seaplane. My question is...Ardo seaplanes cannot lift and drop paratroopers...so does an airborne unit have built in lift capability and can fly itself? It seems to be that way to me but I am unsure on this.
RE: Airborne question
Posted: Fri Dec 01, 2017 1:15 pm
by Primarchx
Airborne units use the general airlift capacity pool to drop, not specific air units, as I recall.
RE: Airborne question
Posted: Fri Dec 01, 2017 1:31 pm
by larryfulkerson
In TOAW the transports that carry the airborne are abstracted and if your unit says it's "Airmoble" then you can
drop that bad boy with no reguard to existing aircraft. With the exception of fighters. You are going to want
some fighters on AS if you try to fly your paratroopers into the face of significant enemy CAP.
RE: Airborne question
Posted: Fri Dec 01, 2017 1:52 pm
by IBender
Thank you.
RE: Airborne question
Posted: Fri Dec 01, 2017 4:41 pm
by Oberst_Klink
ORIGINAL: Primarchx
Airborne units use the general airlift capacity pool to drop, not specific air units, as I recall.
Aye, but Airmobile or Heli-borne units are simulated nicely though. Pity, that ain't the case for paras, e.g. having to use Ju-52, C-47, gliders, would have been cool.
Klink, Oberst
RE: Airborne question
Posted: Fri Dec 01, 2017 5:43 pm
by Primarchx
ORIGINAL: Oberst_Klink
ORIGINAL: Primarchx
Airborne units use the general airlift capacity pool to drop, not specific air units, as I recall.
Aye, but Airmobile or Heli-borne units are simulated nicely though. Pity, that ain't the case for paras, e.g. having to use Ju-52, C-47, gliders, would have been cool.
Klink, Oberst
True. The big difference is that helos don't require airfields while transports would. With the fixed wing stacking limit on available airfields, along with any range requirements, would add a serious planning crimp to an already busy turn planning/execution process!
RE: Airborne question
Posted: Fri Dec 01, 2017 5:47 pm
by Oberst_Klink
ORIGINAL: Primarchx
ORIGINAL: Oberst_Klink
ORIGINAL: Primarchx
Airborne units use the general airlift capacity pool to drop, not specific air units, as I recall.
Aye, but Airmobile or Heli-borne units are simulated nicely though. Pity, that ain't the case for paras, e.g. having to use Ju-52, C-47, gliders, would have been cool.
Klink, Oberst
True. The big difference is that helos don't require airfields while transports would. With the fixed wing stacking limit on available airfields, along with any range requirements, would add a serious planning crimp to an already busy turn planning/execution process!
Point taken, mate. I guess, the same issue it would be with transport vessels (naval).
Klink, Oberst