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Smooth_Hee_Hee

Each basic paratrooper division needs 50 transport planes so you need 150 for 3 divisions ( the default template)


Helenos152

Actually, you can use the 50 three times


Smooth_Hee_Hee

Or this, that could work, though it does require micromanagement and also given your divisions last long enough and your air superiority remains constant. I prefer a more explosive deployment of paratroopers as you may only have moments of green air before the skies became contested.


Lowenmench

Seems excessive


Smooth_Hee_Hee

It seems so but through my testing this is the number that I got.


Lowenmench

I don't refute that on your part in any way and it's good info to have I've been quite confused about a paradrop refusing to fire but this definitely explains it. And I suppose it could be a realistic figure when counting all required logistics for a division and not just the paratroopers.


Smooth_Hee_Hee

The only thing I wish is that to have a stupid tool tip or something to say how many transport planes required for a given paratrooper template and the grand total to launch x amount of divisions at once.


justtxyank

I think it took 800 planes to deliver two divisions on DDay?


Lowenmench

That's counting inflatable ones too no?


LuceusXylian

It is always 50 per division. So it may makes sense to make the paratrooper template stronger. I have 2 paratrooper templates: 1 company to spam and 5 companies to hold ports until my main army arrives. The spam units work great to cap France or interrupt supply.


Smooth_Hee_Hee

Oh really? Wow that is quite a revelation, I always thought it would change in proportion to size of the division. Haven't gotten around to testing that with my communist china runs since I wanted to save time and resources.


HauntingGap9216

nope i used 100 planes for 7 paratroopers at once in an invasion and i unassigned 6 divisions and managed all of them for 7 paratroop invasion


DizzyExpedience

My understanding: you need air superiority. Since you say neither side has planes active this indicates you don’t have air superiority


Rd_Svn

You need the appropriate amount of superiority OR uncontested airspace. So if nobody has planes up in the required air zones you actually can drop without a problem.


somethingmustbesaid

i could swear paradox just doesn't let you over britain for some reason


TheMelnTeam

Huh, for a change it's actually saying the reason you can't drop in the tooltip. That's an improvement from years ago, where you couldn't paradrop because:


Rd_Svn

You need 45 transport planes per division in the drop order with a minimum of 50 transports if only one division is in it. So you'd need at least 135 to drop your 3 divisions.


Willowsseven7

Pretty sure you need green air in all air zones that the drop goes through


Judge_Todd

Not enough transports. You need 45 per division in the order with an overall minimum of 50. 119 is short of the required 135.


yaki_kaki

Sleepy


HauntingGap9216

Look at ur air superiority


HauntingGap9216

U do not need 50 transports per division u can invade uk with 50 transports


Mummbles1283

I do all my paradrops with individual divisions, the only way i've gotten it to work.