paratroopers which spawn into soldiers when they hit the ground.

[Moggy]

Jel - does the current line of 160 exes support the code you developed in May 2016 whereby by falling paratroopers don't explode when they hit the ground, but spawn into the "little men"?

Ray - am I right in thinking the current default weapons availability for 160 includes both cargo parachute load and paratroopers?

[Moggy]

Oh, sorry, I asked this in 2018 and Jel confirmed that it does

viewtopic.php?f=32&t=5988&hilit=paratroopers



See also: https://simhq.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/ ... r/4258859/

and

https://simhq.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/topics/4255647/

[Moggy]

Just following this line of thought. We don't seem to have a Dakota model in the official aircraft inventory with a paratrooper and cargo paradrop loadout.

Ray, can we add this?

I can let you have my DC2 from the Iaq setup as a basis.

The reason for all this is that I'm trying out a Salerno scenario in the Italy/Balkan/Ukraine setup. Salerno is interesting, not only because of the paratrooper drop, but also because one small fleet carrier (actually aircraft repair carrier HMS Unicorn) and four escort carriers (HMSs Battler, Attacker, Hunter and Stalker) in the bay provoded the initial fighter cover --- Seafires and Martlets.

[rotton50]

There is a C47 in the inventory. It's an unimproved model that I included some time back just for such a scenario.

I know something was done a while back with loadouts and such but I don't recall the details. Maybe Jel will remember.

[Moggy]

Okay, I will check it out.

Right, I have that. Looks good, though It only has a "cargo parachute" load at the moment.

I will try an edit for a paratrooper load.