[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Air units

[Daniel Sjolie <deepone@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 1999-12-07 02:58:43, idjason@xxxxxxxx wrote:
>  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.

That is what paratroopers are for...
You are not suppose to be able to do that...
It would however be logical to be able to drop units of
at any airbase (I don't think this is possible now - is it?)
and it might make sense to have a special 'air-carrier'
unit for that purpose...

/Daniel

> Greg Wooledge wrote:
> > 
> > idjason@xxxxxxxx (idjason@xxxxxxxx) wrote:
> > 
> > >  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.
> > 
> > --
> > Greg Wooledge                    | "Truth belongs to everybody."
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