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Paradrop: A paradrop order from an airfield in Germany to the Netherlands.
Paratroop button.png A paradrop is an attack by air on enemy territory. A paradrop may only be executed by paratroopers and their support equipment. Divisions with any battalions that cannot be dropped may not be used in a paradrop. Most kinds of line battalions will make a division ineligible for air drops if they are present in the division; see the division designer display on whether the division is para-capable.
A paradrop must start from an airfield with transport planes without a mission assigned. Double check that the transport planes do not have an assigned mission, as well as no assigned air strategic zone. Make sure that the number of transport planes is equal to or greater than the weight of the paratroopers. You must have at least 70% control of all air zones from the airfield to the drop location. If the airfield has planes over the capacity of the airfield, the mission will not launch.
A supply source, such as a large city, a port or a connection to the main front should be established as soon as possible in order to avoid the effects of being unsupplied. It is advisable to land paratroopers in an area near a supply source and to quickly assault that source, as supply sources tend to be well guarded. There is a new aerial supply system from Waking the Tiger Waking the Tiger DLC that will allow paratroops to fight for longer and hold the line against the enemy. Dropping on top of enemy troops is an attack with hefty penalties and certain destruction if defeated, unless the paratroops can retreat to adjacent friendly-controlled territory.
If experiencing problems with paradrops even when you have air superiority in the target zone, there may be another problem. If your target province lies within an air zone whose central node is outside the range of your transport planes, then it can cause an infinite delay and prevent paradrops. What this means is that, in a number of airfields, provinces might technically be in range of your transport planes, but your planes will never arrive at those provinces, because the target air zone's coverage node is outside of their range (or something like that). The Germany-to-Southern-England thing is a particularly obnoxious example, but it happens in a lot of other places too (the Pacific and South America, for example).
Fortunately, you can get around this broken game mechanic by, well, breaking it further. When your paradrop order appears on the Air map screen (same place where you assign Air Superiority and Ground Support missions), left-click the order's circular icon (probably looks blank), then right-click reassign your order to an air zone whose central node is closer to your airfield (this will usually, but not always, be the air zone your airfield is located in).
Transport planes
As with convoys for naval invasions, paradrop orders require transport planes in order to be executed. Divisions need to be in a province with an airfield with transport planes in order to be able to execute the paradrop. Contrary to other planes in the game, 1 transport plane does not represent 1 plane but rather a group of planes required to transport units.
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