Organic Transport

Draken · Post by **Draken** » Jan 03 2006

This is an idea I got:

What if we could assign an organic transport for each unit by medium type (air, sea or land)?

For example: lets say that we have a Marine btn and several transport units (helos, planes , ships, trucks etc). Somewhere in the unit panel we would be able to assign a specific air transport to this Marine btn so, whenever we issued the Air transport order to the Marine btn, only the assigned Air Transport will respond and if it canâ€™t the Marine btn wonâ€™t move (a message would be nice). Same for Sea and Land transport order (assuming that someday we will have a Land transport order)â€¦

Of course, if there is no organic transport assigned for the order type, the current method will be in effect...

Thoughts?

red · Post by **red** » Apr 16 2006

This might be nice if the devs do formations, because you could go even further and, with this kind of framework, assign helos to be the transport pair for an airmobile unit and an AOE squadron to be a supply pair to a naval task force and so on.

tkobo · Post by **tkobo** » Apr 17 2006

Sounds good to me.

Il Duce · Post by **Il Duce** » Apr 17 2006

...as part of 'logical' formations [discussed here and elsewhere], I've always done this. One way to do this somewhat effectively is to keep all of the associated resources geographically close - for instance, you have a brigade of leg units, tucked away behind a ridge about ten hexes from a border. Keeping their helos close by makes for a certain forgiveness if you hastily order an air transport, as besides other criterion, the engine typically picks the nearest units to accomplish an otherwise unspecified transport.

But it sure would be nice if....

Draken · Post by **Draken** » Apr 17 2006

Il Duce wrote:... Keeping their helos close by makes for a certain forgiveness if you hastily order an air transport, as besides other criterion, the engine typically picks the nearest units to accomplish an otherwise unspecified transport.

Yeah, that's my workaround too....

felinis · Post by **felinis** » May 02 2006

Give us Land Transport.

Loading each garrison onto a truck manually is too burdensom -
allow us to select a bunch of garrisons and command "Land Transport" for them all at once.