I was glad to see Paratroopers added to the game, but then a little flumoxed with the fact that they were a one use unit...

That makes literally no sense. Paratroopers made many jumps in WWII, across multiple campaigns.

I propose that if you can say move the paratrooper to a T3 airfield it can then be given the option to repack its gear for transport as an aircraft again. Essentially like an embarkation timer. Heck make it 24hours and requiring a T3 airfield, maybe coast 1000 supplies, or a percentage of 1000 based on unit health, to show the need to resupply the unit with the necessary gear to make a new jump.

I also dont feel that limiting production to the capital is prudent. I know have to choose between commandos or paratroopers... Besides logistical gains of the use of paratroopers, I will almost always choose to be producing commandos over jumpers. Railguns require T3 infrastructure, Jumpers should require T3 airfields and nothing more. I pretty much tried paratroopers once but have not used them since because limiting them to the capital is way too restrictive especially since its a one off unit anyways.

Oh I realize that with commandos, thats why that was not a part of my suggestion. Keep commando production to a capital, but having both commandos and paratroopers makes you ahve to choose between the two. We can all agree that commandos are hands down stronger, the strategic benefit of having a one time logistical bonus is not worth halting commando production for an ultimately worse unit.

Maybe if Paratroopers had the same stats as your current infantry tech, but were an upgrade done to infantry at a T3 airfield?

I just really want to be using paratroopers, but its never prudent to. Thus I just dont tech into them anymore.

There would be a cost associated with repacking the para. Early game thats not something you can abuse, first off the time and resource constraint on getting a T3 airfield is pretty high, and the paratroopers themselves cost 2500 combined resources more than a simple infantry unit. I would like to see a player have lvl 3 airfields plus have been upgrading the IC to then be able to produce 4 paras at a time by the 4th in game day on 4 different territories WHILE also expanding and upgrading the rest of their country appropriately.. Thats not something that is spammabale that early.

LT are less than half the supplies requirement and thus easier to spam early, a para trooper being deep in supplies, steel, and oil reqs makes it very prohibitive early, especially if a lot of those resources went into just getting the production ability to have paras. To spam on the level you are talking about requires a much larger much more established country. If your strategy can afford to "repack" their troopers after every campaign then you should benefit from that ability, but its definitely not spammable since I proposed a 24hr flat repacking time. You can literally only use the unit once every other day.

The paratrooper should be dealt with the same way the railrun gun is. Allowed to be spammed , but in the case of the railroad gun, its freaking slower than militia, giving it a much lower spammability due to its logistical constraints. I think the paratrooper will have large enough drawbacks that deter its ability to be spammed and abused early.

Key thing being that it sharing a production point with commandos, but not having the strength of commandos largely means that the only time you would prefer to be building paratroopers is in extremely limited scenarios. Otherwise why ever waste the resources on even teching into the troopers when they will just be competing with a production space? At that point the tech cost is literally wasted resources.