And be aware that unless you allow the AI to buy air assets you'll never see any. It NEEDS air sorties set high to do so
Also, if you want the AI to use airborne units the simplest solution is to set up a generated battle on a large map with the game set up to human purchase P2 but computer deploy......then you buy all the airborne / helo units you want for the AI and let the AO handle them.......it will
