Airport and unit airlift

[craco]

I am a new player to CivIV v1.61 but an experienced player of CivIII. I'm having some trouble in understanding the limits of unit airlifting.

I built several airports on two continents but I am limited in airlifting only 1 land unit per turn regardless of the number of airports.

In CivIII one of my favorite tactics was to massivelly airlift my armies from on continent to another in addition to transporting them by ocean. It seems I cannot do the same in CivIV. Having airports is then only useful for the trade routes.

Am I missing something here ?

[Sabre2th]

It's been a while since I've used an airport for airlifting...my games are nearly always over by then (or so far along that I don't need airports).

However, I believe you are allowed unlimited incoming airlifts. The issue is that each airport is limited to only one outgoing airlift per turn.

[craco]

The problem is that I am limited to 1 airlift per turn per continent, period ! That's regardless of the number of airports.

[Jaybe]

You can airlift one unit (of any type) from an airport per turn. This unit can airlift to any other city that has not yet been airlifted into on the same turn.

In other words:
outgoing limit per airport, per turn: 1 unit
incoming limit per city, per turn: 1 unit

If city has already had a unit come in, land next unit into another city. In Warlords, you can land into a city of a civ that is a permanent ally, but not of a vassal (vassal restriction to be changed in the imminent patch).

[Jaybe]

Additional restriction: units to be airlifted must start the turn in the airport city, and cannot move after being airlifted (until next turn).

[rah]

Originally posted by Jaybe
You can airlift one unit (of any type) from an airport per turn. This unit can airlift to any other city that has not yet been airlifted into on the same turn.

In other words:
outgoing limit per airport, per turn: 1 unit
incoming limit per city, per turn: 1 unit

If city has already had a unit come in, land next unit into another city. In Warlords, you can land into a city of a civ that is a permanent ally, but not of a vassal (vassal restriction to be changed in the imminent patch).

If you have an airport the incoming limit for that city is unlimited in my experience.

[wanderer27]

Speaking of Airports.

Is there an easy way to tell if a city has an Airport in it from just looking at Graphic?

When I have dozens of cities, it gets to be a real pain having to open up each city menu to find out if there's an Airport or not.

[Addled Platypus]

wow, forgot about this

I have yet to build 1 airport in anygame since C4 vanilla, quess I am a land-lubber

sad or what

[Sabre2th]

Originally posted by Platypus Rex
wow, forgot about this

I have yet to build 1 airport in anygame since C4 vanilla, quess I am a land-lubber

sad or what

I've found that they're really pretty useless if you start in ancient times.

[Jaybe]

Originally posted by wanderer27
Is there an easy way to tell if a city has an Airport in it from just looking at Graphic?

When I have dozens of cities, it gets to be a real pain having to open up each city menu to find out if there's an Airport or not.

You have to look HARD (and close up) to identify a city with an airport just by looking at it.

What I do is put a sign on the city. Instead of typing "airport" on the sign, I just put an "8" (for 'propeller').