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Old November 11, 2001, 08:47   #1
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paradrops faill?
so I was playing a game as the French and doing quite well. The Aztecs declare war on me for no reason. I eliminate them from my main continent, and their home continent is just across a fairly narrow waterway.

I had built an ICBM semi-accidentally (Romans built Manhattan Project one turn before me so the shields all went to an ICMB instead) so I decided to be vicious and nuked the closest Aztec city.

I had a city with an airport just in range, and 5 paratroopers I had built earlier. So one by one I tried to drop into the nuked city.. and each time I got a message saying "paradrop failed"

I can understand one or two failing, but five????

It was setup so only the city was in range, I couldn't drop outside the city and march in. So I eventually had to fill up a transport and invade the old-fashioned way.

Does anyone know how the odds for making a succssful paradrop work?
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Old November 11, 2001, 11:08   #2
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maybe the radiation killed them?
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Old November 11, 2001, 11:29   #3
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According to the strategy guide. (Prima's) pg 179 "the losses are usually heavy if the city is well defended"
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Old November 11, 2001, 11:32   #4
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I would guess that you just can't paradrop into a city? Or maybe you can, but the city had a SAM battery or fighters or something. Now that would be fun.
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Old November 11, 2001, 12:33   #5
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Remember, nukes don't always kill all of the units stationed in the city.
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Old November 11, 2001, 13:00   #6
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Remember, nukes don't always kill all of the units stationed in the city.
i'd say that's what most likely happened
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Old November 11, 2001, 19:37   #7
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Remember, nukes don't always kill all of the units stationed in the city.
but the city was only like 3 squares away, before the nuke I thought it wasn't in fog-of-war. I didn't see any troops there when I was trying to drop...

I guess I was assuming like Civ2 that it wouldn't let me drop into a defended city.
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