HOI Paratroopers

Jer8m8 · October 4, 2003, 21:26

How do you use paratroopers?

Main_Brain · October 5, 2003, 07:11

1)Research paratroopers
2) Build Transport Plane &Paratroopers
3) set them both in the same country
4) wait till they reach Max Org
5) Load Paratroopers in Transport by rightclicking n the country
6)check wheter Transports Org is sufficent
7) select Transport Plane hoover over other Provs to check for Range
8) CTRL+Righclick Province in Range, select paradrop
9) watch oil-reserves shrink while Plane flies
10) watch Transport being shot down by enemy fighters/
10) Watch the Lonly Paratrooper die in AA Fire
10) watch your Paratrooper being killed

11) Consider only using Paratroopers on unmanned Islands

General Ludd · October 5, 2003, 09:31

Paratroopers can be useful to add another front to a battle. Try making it a part of your planned offensives and combine it with shore bombardment, coatsal invasion, pincer attacks, ect....

General Ludd · October 5, 2003, 09:32

Or to momentarily cut off supplies during an attack, by landing in a province behind the lines.

Kropotkin · October 5, 2003, 11:14

The best way to use paratroopers is to play the game as version 1.0

adi321 · October 5, 2003, 12:22

heh

then you could pretty much conqer the planet using one transport plane and one paratrooper unit.

Main_Brain · October 6, 2003, 09:25

Those were the Days.. Taking Africa in 48 hours ;=)

Prefer marinas nowadays

ískallin · October 14, 2003, 14:57

Where's the easiest way to get the patch

Oerdin · October 14, 2003, 15:01

To go to the Paradox forums and download it.

ískallin · October 14, 2003, 15:05

link

Main_Brain · October 14, 2003, 19:11

http://www.paradoxplaza.com/downloads.asp

Nikolai · October 18, 2003, 09:56

And do remember to go to the official forum and get the bugfixer for thee patch(some files was wrong).

ískallin · October 22, 2003, 13:02

thankes mate

Nikolai · October 22, 2003, 14:34

No prob.

ískallin · October 22, 2003, 15:30

patch for a patch is stupid though(even more stupid when they've made five of them)

ravagon · October 22, 2003, 20:30

IIRC there were a few people who had difficulty downloading 1.05 due to the size (with the majority of the space being taken up by the added graphics) hence in future most new patches will effectively add to 1.05 as they won't include said graphics.
The 'c' of 1.05c indicates that its a beta with a few adjustments to 1.05 - no point in downloading the whole thing again when most of it (size-wise) is unchanged.

It isn't nearly as bad as their old system for upgrading EU patches - what with patch n having n-1 versions in addition to the patch - each of which upgraded a separate (previous) version.

Nikolai · October 23, 2003, 07:29

If you are talking about the beta patches for EU2 here, rav, then you have misunderstood.

EU2 is now in patch 1.07. That's the official version. Paradox has also provided some beta patches that can be used if you want to help making the next patch(or just want to play with the newest changes

). The game is old after all. You just have to DL 1.07 and apply the newest beta patch, none of the older.

ískallin · October 23, 2003, 09:05

Well the size didn't bother me... But what does the patch change other then the crappy A
I

Nikolai · October 23, 2003, 09:51

Look here and here.