How do you guys use paratroopers?

I sold all mine to cool stuff for credit.  They pay a pretty good price for them.

Eratta did change the 88’s to being transportable on the Trucks from North Africa expansion so they can be moved now. They are tricky to use and work best on open and desert maps due to the long lines of sight (LOS). But if you are not at those range 10+ shots your likely better off with the Pak 40 as an ATG. If you are playing certain year restrictions the 88’s are nessessary to level the field like in the desert campaign. The only thing the Germans had for a while that could stop a Matilda was the 88 ATG.

Transporting the 88 is tricky also as they are both Large units and cannot occupy the same hex unless the gun is loaded. The truck must enter in the movement phase and load the gun right away otherwise the hex will be overstacked with 2 large units and subject to penalty under the revised rules. When unloading they must enter the unloading hex in the combat so it may unload and move out the the hex before it becomes overstacked in the movement. Guns must be loaded and unloaded from transport in the movement phase but move on there own in the combat phase.

**Hello my defenders of the Fatherland.  I’m looking for your thoughts again.  I like assult groups, I’m wondering what you have used in the past as a combined force or (assult group)  ie: 4 sspg 1 sshaup 1 pz faust 1 exp snipe.  It can be armor or infantry.

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Why was it successful? (what did you use it against?)**

SNLF Paratroopers are just fine. Definant Paratroopers are reasonable. It’s just the Screaming Eagle Paratroopers that are overpowered.

And yes, the fact that your army can roll/march through a hex and the next turn… Oh look you missed the paratroopers hiding there  :roll:

My house rules have been ‘Deploy them with vanguard on turn 1, or they can come in on any mapside’

Makes them still good, but not nearly as bad.

@UKcommander:

Besides for the paratrooper ability, are all other special abilities used as many times as need be?

Single-use cards (eg AP Rounds, Headshot, Smoke Screen, etc) will say so otherwise it’s usually considered ‘always in use’.

Paratroopers & Partisans ‘deploy.’  A unit can only be deployed once.

Sounds like your opponent was using a Tier 3 army at best; hardly tournement calibre.

Be that as it may, your army isn’t bad.  Whenever you make a UK army the Churchill Crocodile is generally a primary consideration.  The Comet has it’s uses, but I just don’t like the 3 rear defence on such an expensive unit.  It’s still fairly easily disrupted, and just about everything can get past a 2 defence.

Your army makes effective use of the Lieutenant with both Gurkhas and allowing the 17 pounder to move during the movement phase.  The Stuarts provide adequate support for the slow moving Crocodile.

The best that I can come up with right now is the following:

http://www.axisandallies.org/node/37