Units transported by air transports do not fight back

Similar to how units on transports do not fight, so you are forced to escort them with destroyers/subs/bombers or lose your transport full of nice juicy units.

This would actually force players to escort air transports rather than the very strange situation where infantry on air transports can shoot down an intercepting force of bombers easily.

Also units stranded on water because their transport has been killed should not fight back. They are listed with 0 atk/def, they are in the middle of the ocean...the owner should be forced to rescue them quickly or lose them fast.

What exactly is your new idea or question?

If a ship has 100 tanks abroad,and it will be attacked by a other ship. Then its obvious that the tanks on the ship cannot fight back and you will also lose the tanks if the ship sinks. It is supposed to work like this.

This isn't 400 BCE. An infantry or tank unit on a weakly equipped transport ship cannot hope to oppose attacks by bombers or destroyers. And the tanks can't do shit against the armour of destroyer-class ships, let alone fighter-bombers in the sky.

I guess he means that Stacks in a airtransport shoudnt defend too, like it is most times is with transports

So we could hunt down 10 Air Trans with 10 Bombers, without figthing the transported Troops

Huh? That is already like it is now....

Skrevet av Tzeentch, 23.05.2012 at 09:19

So we could hunt down 10 Air Trans with 10 Bombers, without figthing the transported Troops

It's exactly like that already, that's why you should never left any of your Air Transports unprotected (unless you want them to be destroyed, which happens to be the case sometimes).

Not true. If the transported Stack is over Land the transported Troops will defend. Only over the Ocean only the transporters will defend

Yes, they will defend, if the air transport does not move, this makes perfect sense because the air transport is landed, meaning the troops can fight.

if you move the airtrans on the same turn, and it is blocked, then the troops will not fight back

this works the same for subs and transports that are landed on the coast.

Skrevet av nonames, 23.05.2012 at 11:37

Yes, they will defend, if the air transport does not move

That's it. If it didn't move, I don't see a problem with it, since it makes more sense, as stated, that the air transport is actually landed at the moment of the attack.

So i can take them out just with a TB in every other case they will defend?

I posted this thread because people in the questions forum were saying that land units loaded on air transports always defend...

Aside from that i still dont think units stranded on water should fight back.

If marines are loaded on subs in the middle of an ocean, do the marines fight back if the subs don't move?