@Bardoly:
In an earlier post, you indicated that you don’t like the Paratrooper tech. May I ask why? Is it because it makes bombers too powerful, or is it something else?
I probably shouldn’t have said that, but since I did, I guess I should explain.
My problem with the idea of paratroopers in this game is one of scale. The size of one “infantry unit” is very vague in this and all A&A games. However, the size of land territories is not vague. France is France, and we know how large it is. Given that, one “infantry unit” must be large enough to occupy and control a territory, therefore one infantry unit is large enough to occupy and control an area the size of France (or Germany, etc.).
If you accept that, you must accept the fact that, with the Paratroopers development, a bomber unit can carry and drop enough soldiers to occupy and control an area the size of France. The fact is, there were never any paratrooper drops of that scale during World War II, as it would have been completely impractical. Granted, there were some large paratroop operations, but they were always in conjunction with attacks by land- or seabourne troops - not by themselves. The nature of paratroopers is that they drop behind enemy lines to disrupt enemy operations and secure forward objectives. Because of the nature of their transportation, they travel light. The only carry enough supplies and equipment to last until they’re supported by the advancing conventional troops.
Given all that, a “paratrooper unit” must be smaller than an “infantry unit” is in this game. This leads to the conclusion that a “paratrooper unit” is already assumed to be abstracted into the “infantry unit”. It simply doesn’t merit being a separate entity in a game on this scale.
However, if we must have paratroopers at all, I do like the idea that they must stop moving as soon as they enter hostile territory. This is a welcome change from previous incarnations of paratroopers that I’ve seen. It prevents the outrageously unrealistic possibility of dropping paratroopers hundreds of miles behind enemy lines with no hope at all of timely support from conventional troops.
Of course, this is simply my opinion.