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I discovered this recently by accident. It's possible to get UNLIMITED air strikes in SP!

I'm playing a full WWII campaign as the Japanese. As part of my core force I took a few platoons of paras, and twosquads of transport aircraft. I noticed that since I had the transports in my core force I was never given a chance to buy any strike aircraft, which bugged me a bit. Also, like hot dogs and hot dog buns, there are more paras in a platoon than will fit on a single squad of transports (5 squads of paras and 4 transports). On one turn I wanted to be able thave all 10 para squads jump behind the British lines, so I bought an extra squad of transports, then changed my mind (I couldn't do anything with the other two transports) so I put them back. Lo' and behold, I suddenly had one air unit availible, and "strike aircraft" popped up on the menu! I did it again, buying two squads of transports and putting both back. Now I had 3 air units to purchase! A little later, in the next scenario, I deceided to see just how far it would let me go, so I bought all the transport aircraft I could buy...58 squads, put 'em all back and got 58 air units to purchase!

I only bought 30 squads of Zero's, but boy was it fun when I used them all on my opening bombardment! The Limey's never stood a chance!

Anyway, I went back to "normal" purchasing choices and re-did the scenario, but this is an interesting flaw to play with.

Oooh, very cool. Might be useful in some situations to overcome a few natural game-engine obstacles. ^_^

Solution to those spare 2 planes:
Scouts!!! What, you don't think your paras are going to deploy scouts? Well, why not provide them in your drop, then? Throw in some ATR's or FO's, and you've got a nasty little tick in your enemies neck.

Can you put regular inf squads, scouts, etc. in transports and drop them like paras??

sapper99 wrote:Can you put regular inf squads, scouts, etc. in transports and drop them like paras??

Yes

sapper99 wrote:Can you put regular inf squads, scouts, etc. in transports and drop them like paras??

Yep. Allows you to simulate Airborne Scouts, Airborne Mortars, Airborne Artillery, Airborne Engineers, etc. I believe that the suppression from the drop depends in decent part on the unit's experience. When I've dropped my SNLF across the board, I've noticed that the ATR's, FG's, and other miscellenia who do not have the experience bonus (or aren't otherwise well-trained/experienced) usually turn out a bit the worse for wear.

Irinami wrote:...and other miscellenia who do not have the experience bonus (or aren't otherwise well-trained/experienced) usually turn out a bit the worse for wear.

Yeah, sometimes they just go SPLAT. Actual para's don't seem to suffer at all. Same thing when using gliders.

BTW The unlimited strike aircraft trick only works up to the number set in your preferences. Eg if you set a maximum of two formations, and then find you can't purchase any for some reason, the transport/ glider buy/sell trick only works twice.

Black Sabot wrote:Yeah, sometimes they just go SPLAT. Actual para's don't seem to suffer at all. Same thing when using gliders.

BTW The unlimited strike aircraft trick only works up to the number set in your preferences. Eg if you set a maximum of two formations, and then find you can't purchase any for some reason, the transport/ glider buy/sell trick only works twice.

Mine was set to XX