Paratroopers?

[barefootbadass]

Originally posted by Unregistered
For example, an enemy stack of tanks is near your borders & it would be nice to burn a few of them. But when you attack, they retreat. Well, cut off the lines of retreat w/ paratroopers & then smash away.

Well if you had a decent one move attacking unit that would be great, but since you are most likely using tanks to attack their tanks there is no retreat anyway between mobile units.

[Unregistered]

Originally posted by Willem



Mine wasn't, I just looked at it yesterday and it was still 4. I've changed it to 6 now though. I'm thinking of changing that to 7. A bomber has 6, and a Paratroop battalion would be a lighter payload than bombs. And, correct me if I'm wrong, a plane transporting troops is not that different than a Bomber, so it would have a bit more range as a result of a lighter load.

Well, actually they're quite a bit different. Think B-52 v C-141. But ranges are typically similar.

[Unregistered]

Originally posted by barefootbadass


Well if you had a decent one move attacking unit that would be great, but since you are most likely using tanks to attack their tanks there is no retreat anyway between mobile units.

Good point. In this case my one city on this continent was at the end a mountainous arm of land, far away from my mainland. I had placed it there much earlier to access some iron that was in the mountains. There was another civ - the egyptians - on a small continent just across the water that was pretty backwards, techwise. So I had a contingent of marines, paratroopers a couple of fighters & some bombers there, & one mech infantry. The nearest enemy city was 8 or 9 tiles away through the mountains & I had used the bombers - as well as the paras & marines on the closer bits - to demolish the roads between us. Well, the chinese marched a group of about 10 tanks thru the mountains to attack me. I was at war with them, the english & the americans at the time, although I only had direct contact with the english. I could have just waited for them to attack the city, all of the tanks but one were conscripts and all my marines & paras were veterans, which would have handled them easily on defense, even without walls in my size three city. But I didn't want them vandalizing stuff, particularly my only source of iron. (I hadn't built my city on top of the iron you see) So I bombed them, dropped paras on the three tiles behind them, moved four other paras in to surround them & then attacked them with the marines. I think I lost three marines, one became elite & all the tanks got burned. Three or four turns later peace was declared. Special circumstance, I admit, but that's the kind of job paratroopers are designed for.

Cheers,

[Willem]

Originally posted by Unregistered


Well, actually they're quite a bit different. Think B-52 v C-141. But ranges are typically similar.

Thanks for the info. Anyway, range was all I was concerned about. So giving Paratroppers a range of 7 wouldn't be stretching it then, due to the lighter payload.