New Idea: Paratroopers!

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    • pablo

      it wouldnt at all, if we add 2 new units, and commandos and paratroopers have the ablity to parachute from the new unit

      transport unit
      but just thinink about it, yea 90%



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    • 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.

    • 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 :thumbdown:



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    • 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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    • 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.
      The past is a foreign country.

    • 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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      -Friedrich von Haye


    • 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

    • 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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      -Friedrich von Haye


    • oceanhawk wrote:

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