New Idea: Paratroopers!

TylerAB · 2015-12-27T02:46:33.000Z

SO these are like infantry that you can load up on planes and drop can be drop off behind enemy territories are over neutral nations to attack the nation on the other side. Basically just putting infantry on flying airplane convoys.

3 Jan 2016, 17:43

No paratroopers, too complicated!

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3 Jan 2016, 18:00

its not compliacted at all

just adds features to the game

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3 Jan 2016, 18:09

oceanhawk wrote:
its not compliacted at all
just adds features to the game

It is complicated, it would make people leave the game for they do not understand.

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3 Jan 2016, 20:03

Simple Paratroopers:

Make them the exact same unit as a bomber, except when sent to "bomb" an area, they turn into what are essentially regular troops at the point at which they are dropped. These troops you can move around at ease, and engage enemies in battles like any other troop.

If you march them into a friendly airfield, they turn into a plane again and can be flown around the map like a plane. Much like how airplanes can be transported by ground or air.

3 Jan 2016, 20:18

salbalkus wrote:
Simple Paratroopers:
Make them the exact same unit as a bomber, except when sent to "bomb" an area, they turn into what are essentially regular troops at the point at which they are dropped. These troops you can move around at ease, and engage enemies in battles like any other troop.
If you march them into a friendly airfield, they turn into a plane again and can be flown around the map like a plane. Much like how airplanes can be transported by ground or air.

that aint cool

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3 Jan 2016, 22:05

It is! Great idea, @salbalkus. Need to be tweaked, but great idea.

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3 Jan 2016, 22:12

Eh, well, this is happening again. Just argument. No one can ever agree on anything.

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3 Jan 2016, 22:13

Good point, good point. BUt I don't know why we're arguing, 'cos @Zarathustra told us they were gonna get added anyway.

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3 Jan 2016, 22:46

Pablo22510 wrote:
meaning that if they land on an enemy unit, they'll be wiped out.

well that's not fully correct...during ww2 paratroopers of the 82nd preformed during Normandy and they were dropped right on top of the enemy. By the time the All-American 82nd Airborne Division was pulled back to England, it had seen 33 days of bloody combat and suffered heavy losses, with 5,245 troopers killed, wounded, or missing. They didn't all die, but a lot did. So say they CAN get eliminated but have a chance to hold out if numbers are in favor.

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4 Jan 2016, 16:28

Yes. A full division of Paras is a lot, so in theory, in the game, if you dropped enough paras on the enemy, you would be able to win. And anyway, at Normandy, comm lines had been severed with the help of the French resistance, meaning the Germans were uncoordinated and it was kind of like an every man for himself for the Germans.

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4 Jan 2016, 16:44

wish they made a series similar to " Band of Brothers"

Think most people hear airborne and 101st pop in, 82nd did just as much impressive stuff in Normandy,

But their drops were much worse, they were scattered all over the place much more than the 101st and the brits

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4 Jan 2016, 21:34

Yeah, I remember in BoB, Winters and the guy from Baker company he lands with (goes by the name of John Hall) find Lipton and "a couple of 82nd boys" a few minutes later. They were pretty much all over the place.

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4 Jan 2016, 22:53

oceanhawk wrote:
wish they made a series similar to " Band of Brothers"
Think most people hear airborne and 101st pop in, 82nd did just as much impressive stuff in Normandy,
But their drops were much worse, they were scattered all over the place much more than the 101st and the brits

There's a book that follows a hero of the 82nd, its called The Steel Wave by Jeff Shaara

War is the only place where a man truly lives. -George Patton
Veni, Vidi, Vici - Julius Caesar
I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion. - Alexander the Great

5 Jan 2016, 19:55

Elitenoob0wnage wrote:
oceanhawk wrote:
wish they made a series similar to " Band of Brothers"
Think most people hear airborne and 101st pop in, 82nd did just as much impressive stuff in Normandy,
But their drops were much worse, they were scattered all over the place much more than the 101st and the brits
There's a book that follows a hero of the 82nd, its called The Steel Wave by Jeff Shaara

hmmm I will take a look

any good?

im reading Pegasus Bridge, by S. Ambrose

units from the brit 6th took part, pretty good, just on the topic of airborne units

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5 Jan 2016, 21:17

oceanhawk wrote:
any good?

yea, it doesn't only follow the 82nd though, switches through Rommel, Patton, Eisenhower, and misc. role during ww2.

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Veni, Vidi, Vici - Julius Caesar
I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion. - Alexander the Great

5 Jan 2016, 21:34

O right,

Rommel as well that is good,

good to see the side of arguable the best WW2 General..

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