[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Air units

[idjason@xxxxxxxx]

 No, but this would act just like a transport ship except instead of
transporting units over water, it could transport them anywhere,
quickly.
This would all be good for invading enemies IMHO. You could a drop a
couple of howitzers and mech inf. right at the door of somebodys
capital.
Invasion made easy.

Greg Wooledge wrote:
> 
> idjason@xxxxxxxx (idjason@xxxxxxxx) wrote:
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> >  Why not have a transport plane unit. It would maybe fly to a certain
> > point, drop a unit and than fly back. And possibly have an advanced
> > version that could pick up units too.
> 
> This is basically what the airlift command is supposed to do.  You can
> airlift one land unit per turn from each city that has an Airport,
> and send it to any other city that has an Airport.
> 
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