Paratroopers operating from Carriers

[problem_child]

Why can't you use paratroopers operating from Carriers? and whats the point of them in that case? since finding i could not use paratroopers from Carriers i havent bothered building para's, whats the point?

[redstar1]

Have paratroopers ever been used from Carriers in a real-life situation?

Marines maybe but Para's?

Dave

[Expatriate]

Dropping a full airborne division from a carrier is not logistically possible. Sure, you can drop a small group of soldier for a small special op, but a regular paratrooper unit is just too big.

[Frito]

Yeah it might not be too realistic, but it could make for good game play.

[redstar1]

You still have the paratrooper's 'drop' ability though. Perhaps an airspace/airstrip agreement with your allies?

Dave

[Frito]

Yeah that would be needed...how else could american paratroopers do anything in WW2?

[problem_child]

Okay, your right- a division of troopers from even a Nimitz Class Super Carrier is perhaps unlikely, just so long as i don't attempt to drop marines into the theatre only to find their helicopters won't base on a carrier

i just love it when an answer satisfies.

[Dis]

the carrier I was on was cramped enough as it was. I don't need a bunch of smelly paratroopers sleeping all over the passageways because there aren't enough bunks available .

There are amphibious helicopter carriers as well. I was on the USS Guam now decomissioned. It was designed to use helicopters to deliver marines to the shore. This class of ships is now outdated. The new LHA's and such have the rear part of the ship that opens up allowing the marines to depart on boats. From a game point of view this is best simulated with the marines departing a transport. Not a paratrooper unit.

[HomeAir]

I don't understand why paratroopers have to have a airport to do airdrops, but planes don't need an airport to be built or re-based to. I wonder how they take off and land???? But to get back on the original topic, paratroopers DON'T base on or use carriers to deploy. You can't get a plane large enough to carry paratroopers (the numbers that are required to make it a useful unit) to take off from a carrier or even have enough space on the ship to hold a plane of that size.