can we get a Light Air Transport

something like this which is able to transport more then one unit at once. Maybe have like a carrier version? kinda a flying fortress kinda unit but without the d-gun and it can spawn little gunships and it can hold many units? maybe 20 units?

quote: more then one unit at once

yea nota has one of those, its really quite usefull


but in nota its a heavy transport, that can survive a few knocks

Build more transports.

The problem with multi-transports is a single point of failure and it's non-scalability. Picking up and unloading multiple units is also more difficult and time consuming than each unti having its own transport. The heavy transport used to do this. It didn't make anyone use it any more than they do now.

yes.
With area load/unload you can do drops pretty quickly.

There is one thing about dropships that could be improved though. That is its load animation. I wouldn' t mind if was about as fast as the starcraft dropships. (there you can almost instantly load units) In spring you have to watch the load animations finish to be sure everything is loaded up before you can send them away. (we might need to disable the transportation of enemy units then. But that would only improve the game further)

give transports gravity beams to load and unload. Mutiple units allowed. Carries clound deadly dropping!

The reason transports are not very good is because of how AA is balanced. It has huge range and damage to shut down bombers into mid-late game. This means everything that is behind enemy lines is ALSO under AA. A dead zone of no AA cover that is behind enemy lines is the perfect place to drop with transports: Especially if there is AA cover over the vital structures that the dropped units can then move to and attack. But AA coverage is so good you basically don't get this.

The other reason is that there are so many boundry-penetrating units: Spiders, Jumpers, Amphs, Hovers, that you need defenses basically everywhere, and there are heaps of ways to get over impassable terrain. So not only are areas you might want to drop usually defended anyway, but the other options feel better.

The main reason though is they're just a bit finnicky to use. I actually think that well done early drops of things like Outlaws, Warriors or Zeus could be seriously OP, but nobody does it- this is why we haven't buffed Valk any more (Since BA, we've buffed it by like a factor of 5, yet it is used LESS).

It would also make cars vastly superior to any other land fac on flat maps, even more so than now.

Transporting does not only mean dropping enemy bases. Moving constructors around for faster expansion or reclaim (bandit plains) can be a big help. The ability to move slow units like zueses at hyperspeed within your own terretory (CCR) can also be a huge help.

... there is, Anarchid. Embark button summons the nearest available transport. Last time I used it the interaction was a little fiddly (the disembark button did nothing but you'd be transported through your move destinations in the queue and dropped at the last one) but it works well.

oh wow. sounds a bit more complicated than i envisaged, but yay.