A question about dropping paratroops in MAP

[JasonHan]

Hello everyone, I have a question about dropping paratroopers in the modern air power.I am playing the second scenario of War over middleEast called "Operation Kadesh" and I need to drop paratroops into Mitla Pass.

According to the manual and database, paratroopers are air droppable cargo and I can "attack" a friendly location to drop them.
However, I tried to right click the location or "shift + right click" and press "attack", and I even tried to land there, none of these methods worked. So can someone tell me how to drop off these paratroops ? Thank you.

[parmenio]

Can you attach a save file to your post here or at The Blitz and I'll take a look?

[JasonHan]

Can you attach a save file to your post here or at The Blitz and I'll take a look?

Hello, thank you so much for answering. The WDS forum and blitz forum won't allow me to upload the btl file. Do you mind giving me your email address so that I can send you the file? I really want to know what's wrong with this thing. Thanks

[parmenio]

It's ok, I was able to work out what is going on from your screenshot at The Blitz.
Ultimately, this will need a support ticket raised.

https://wargameds.com/pages/support-wds

The issue is that even though the Info box is telling you your Paras are cargo, they are, in fact, being treated as weapon loads.
With the Scenario Editor, I edited one of the C-47 flights and added Paratroop cargo (second line in brackets):

Paratroops_one.png (183.21 KiB) Viewed 931 times

The second issue is that they are air-droppable in the Ordnance.dat file but not marked as Infantry as well.
The second screenshot is the result of both changes after passing over the Landing Zone:

Paratroops_two.png (185.41 KiB) Viewed 931 times

Paras have been successfully dropped.

[Hawk27]

Hi Jason,

Modern Air Power saw a lot of changes while it was under Air Force direction. War Over the Mideast was designed at a time where a lot of those features didn't exist or were in a much different form. Air-dropping cargo was one of them - the newer engine supports unloading cargo while landed and adjusting aircraft endurance based on the carried weight. The old system treated cargo as a "weapon," hence this problem. Though there's more to it than this, a quick fix for that scenario is to change the weapon payload to none and add the paratroopers as a cargo load in the editor, as Andy posted.

It's on our to-do list for the next round of updates, but we don't have an ETA for it, I'm afraid.

[JasonHan]

It's ok, I was able to work out what is going on from your screenshot at The Blitz.
Ultimately, this will need a support ticket raised.

https://wargameds.com/pages/support-wds

The issue is that even though the Info box is telling you your Paras are cargo, they are, in fact, being treated as weapon loads.
With the Scenario Editor, I edited one of the C-47 flights and added Paratroop cargo (second line in brackets):


Paratroops_one.png


The second issue is that they are air-droppable in the Ordnance.dat file but not marked as Infantry as well.
The second screenshot is the result of both changes after passing over the Landing Zone:


Paratroops_two.png


Paras have been successfully dropped.

Thank you!

[JasonHan]

Hi Jason,

Modern Air Power saw a lot of changes while it was under Air Force direction. War Over the Mideast was designed at a time where a lot of those features didn't exist or were in a much different form. Air-dropping cargo was one of them - the newer engine supports unloading cargo while landed and adjusting aircraft endurance based on the carried weight. The old system treated cargo as a "weapon," hence this problem. Though there's more to it than this, a quick fix for that scenario is to change the weapon payload to none and add the paratroopers as a cargo load in the editor, as Andy posted.

It's on our to-do list for the next round of updates, but we don't have an ETA for it, I'm afraid.

Thank you for answering! I will wait for the update