Transports Planes?

[Devereux]

How many transport planes are required for earch paratrooper division? I cant find an explanation. Is there a place in the stats to check because I can't find it.

[KingPhilipII]

I cant even figure out how to build planes.. whenver I click build plane everything I choose says "filled"

[Innese]

Originally posted by sabiba87:

I cant even figure out how to build planes.. whenver I click build plane everything I choose says "filled"

Filled just means that currently you don't need any of that type of production. It means you either have nothing in training needing that object or no air-wing that needs that plane type. You can keep producing while filled to build up a stockpile, just set up a line with factories and you're good to go!

[KingPhilipII]

how do I build new planes then? I only have 1 group of planes and cant seem to get more.

[Dumpster]

like innese said if you keep producing them you will eventually fill a backlog of planes, Be sure to check the logistics tab for a detailed analysis

[Sir Garnet]

the more planes, the faster the paradrop occurs since the fewer round trips they need to make. The weight numbers change and I can't yet make sense of them, but the mechanics are covered in the hoiwiki. the transport planes are expensive and slow to raise.

[Galactic Origins]

It would be nice to know the WEIGHT CAPACITY OF TRANSPORTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Zorlond]

Originally posted by Galactic Origins:

It would be nice to know the WEIGHT CAPACITY OF TRANSPORTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

+1 !!

[Leeroy]

Originally posted by sabiba87:

how do I build new planes then? I only have 1 group of planes and cant seem to get more.

You go to your production screen and que them up. You gotta remember tho, the planes you build go into your reserves. So to deploy them you need to click on an airbase then click "Create New Air Wing" and from there you select the planes from your reserve to add to your active air wings.

[Euto]

paradrops not done yet... kinda obvious
the whole paratroups system has been implemented undone

[falkyns]

Done half a dozen air drops and it has worked everytime:

paratroops and transports colocated
click on airdrop plan button
click on source
click on target
enter to confirm
activate plan
wait for planning to complete
paratroops drop

If you dont have air superiority in target zone it doesnt go.
Has worked everytime. Sure improvement can be made but it works

[[NL]Ibahalii]

acording to the Define file(which decides all the weight etc)
TRANSPORTS_PER_PARATROOPER = 20,-- Air transports only duty is to drop paratroopers.

so we can conclude that we need 20 transport planes per Paratrooper.

[Galactic Origins]

well, I had almost 100 transport planes and parafropped 16 Russian paratroopers into Japan. One flight.

the division had 2 paratrooper infantry and no support or other things. So the total was 32 troopers and they all dropped in one fell swoop with about 100 transports.

[[NL]Ibahalii]

hey i can only copy from a file, which is(as far as i know) the only source we have.
maybe the file refers to the original paratrooper template. which is more then 2 paratroopers per division?
and therefor the comment in the define.lua file is aiming to a default template of paratroopers?

[Galactic Origins]

dunno. would be nice to know for certain.

[[NL]Ibahalii]

the define.lua file is pretty solid certainty.
the game gets a lot of data from the define file. and a lot of ingame actions/limits/allowances are in the define.
So i'm more inclinded to believe that to paradrop a single(default) paratrooper division would cost you 20 transport planes.