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Old December 10th, 2008, 10:40 PM
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Question Airdropping Pack Mules

Is it possible to paradrop pack mules in SPWW2? Is it possible do so in reality? Anybody know?

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"Food aid" was dropped in Southeast Asia in the form of live animals, including cows, so I would imagine that it might be possible. I've not heard of anyone doing that though.
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Default Re: Airdropping Pack Mules

Don't know if that was ever done,
para drop is risky even when trained.

I don't think you could train a mule to bend legs and roll and cut the lines before they get dragged by the wind assusuming they don't have all four legs broken

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in the game i think this is possible, since you can drop tanks from planes on mbt, guess that in ww2 there were no heavy enough transports to do that
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in the game i think this is possible, since you can drop tanks from planes on mbt, guess that in ww2 there were no heavy enough transports to do that
Australian C-47 are one of the ones with a 1XX load capacity in WW2(for the airborne 25 pounders)

"Pack Mules" are simply a small vehicle type (you can split the crew with the @ key, so are based on a vehicle class or gun class). Speed 6 gives them the clip clop noise when moving, as far as I recall. (I have absolutely no use for such things as animal transport, myself)

Set up Australian test game. Keep trying till you get planes. Once planes available, buy a flight of c-47 and some mules. Load mules in transport and plot air drop. Mules drop on silk handkerchiefs. (New exe - handlers (crew) and mules drop separately. Mules as a vehicle wait patiently for their handlers to rejoin, and are then available for use). Mules and handlers dropped in the open - as vehicles they would probably have had bad results in woods (including immobilisations, which here you could take as "broken legs").

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in the game i think this is possible, since you can drop tanks from planes on mbt, guess that in ww2 there were no heavy enough transports to do that
Australian C-47 are one of the ones with a 1XX load capacity in WW2(for the airborne 25 pounders)

"Pack Mules" are simply a small vehicle type (you can split the crew with the @ key, so are based on a vehicle class or gun class). Speed 6 gives them the clip clop noise when moving, as far as I recall. (I have absolutely no use for such things as animal transport, myself)

Set up Australian test game. Keep trying till you get planes. Once planes available, buy a flight of c-47 and some mules. Load mules in transport and plot air drop. Mules drop on silk handkerchiefs. (New exe - handlers (crew) and mules drop separately. Mules as a vehicle wait patiently for their handlers to rejoin, and are then available for use). Mules and handlers dropped in the open - as vehicles they would probably have had bad results in woods (including immobilisations, which here you could take as "broken legs").

Cheers
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Interesting, this can make airdrops cooler
EDIT:
with the new code will i be able to roll light guns/vehic from transports?

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