[RERomine]

Originally Posted by Mobhack

Actually, I didn't say that

I took that to mean you needed escorts from the guns jumping. Escorts meaning that you were going into a hot LZ with paradropped crews, since that was the subject being discussed.

Australia has a pack airborne 25 pounder, others may have airborne pack howitzers.

Personally - I would leave any arty in my deployment zone in a regular battle.

Andy

I actually suggested gliders in the first place.

Originally Posted by RERomine

Yes, they did air drop ammo but it was probably packed differently than in a crate. They used more specialized drop canisters than a wooden box. Yes, the game name is "ammo canister", but they do appear to be boxes to me in the pictures. Setting the C-47 to a carry capacity of 28 rather than 128 keeps people from air dropping antitank guns and the like, as stated by thatguy96. Those types of weapons were delivered by gliders, which could carry them and ammo crates as well. Gliders seem to have no trouble loading in the crates, or for that matter, ammo trucks and M3 ammo tracks.

The only thing I would drop, using gliders, would be small antitank guns if the drop force didn't have adequate, integrated, infantry antitank weapons. I just got confused because it started as a discussion on air dropping ammo canisters and switched to dropping guns because the suggested OOB change allowed for unrealistic unrealistic possibilities.

Originally Posted by RERomine

I tried the same thing and C-47s will also carry and 90mm AA guns as well. Two of them, in fact. I bet those were fun to shove out the side door

I made the first comment about air dropping guns, but was obviously being sarcastic. The OOB changes suggested to allow one thing that would be realistic (dropping ammo canisters) and as a byproduct, created another more unrealistic situation (dropping 90mm AA guns). C-47s might be able to carry large guns, but I have to suspect they would have had a little note on them after dropped, "Some Assembly Required".

Personally, I wouldn't be dropping ammo canisters in the first place because the canisters themselves are unrealistic. They are little black boxes with every type of ammo anyone would ever need. You can find in them tank ammo from 20mm to 380mm, artillery ammo from 75mm to 155mm, mortar rounds from 60mm to 120mm, flame thrower fuel, satchel charges, grenades, rockets, etc. and a host of small arms ammo; all of this in unlimited quantities packed in a box that can be carried on a jeep

Don't worry Don and Andy, I'm not suggesting it be changed. I understand the complications of taking old code and modifying it so only specific ammo types and quantities were loaded into the canister at force selection time and tracking ammo as it's being removed, not to mention a new function for removing ammo in the first place. If you wanted to separate this from other "ammo carrier" types, you are looking at a new class to handle it. Then you have to regression test it to make sure the changes didn't mess up anything else which is much easier in my world than yours. The only practical change would be to get rid of it all together, anyhow and I can do that myself if I want to. At least with ammo dumps and vehicles, you can rationally say those are large enough to have some diversity in the ammo types they carry and carry it in large quantities. As for ammo canisters, I don't use them