Slitherine

Maybe a dull question but until now I have not found the answer: how can I deploy paratroopers as ground unit when air transport is available and paratroopers don't have land transport?
The procedure of first buying a transport than deploy the paratrooper and discard the transport will be a loss of prestige I would like to avoid.

If you purchase a Fallshirmjager for air transport, you don't "pay" for it; the Ju-52 is "free." So no loss of prestige if you just "land" the unit on the deployment hex (though you can't move it until next turn).

If you buy an Fj during deployment, the game assumes it's for air transport.

I suggest if you want a non-motorized infantry, try a Gebirgsjager. they have other properties when non-motorized (movement in hills and mtns) that make them very desirable. I use them as dismounted infantry. I keep generally two of them on hand for such scenarios so I don't have to discard their transport and lose the prestige.

Unless i am totally wrong you can deploy your Falschirmjägers on the ground if you buy them a ground transport. The problem with this is tho that you need to abandon the transport if you want to load them into an air transport and will lose the prestige for it.

See this topic to deploy paratroopers on the ground.

Rood wrote:See this topic to deploy paratroopers on the ground.

This is the solution I'm looking for, but I thought it could be more "simple" (not using cheat codes).
Thanks.