What if paratrooper squads would have special ability to choose deploy in from plane / skies or deploy on ground. I think it would add some “coolness” to para squads. And for sure an advantage for them.
I think its cool idea but it is clear that players would do a lot of unfair stuff, like dropping right on top of you tank, or on OP places like rooftops and so on …
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No. It gives the attacker side too much advantages.
Noone in the right mind would allow his soldiers to drop directly over the battlefield. That would be not only unrealistic but would lead to the slaughter of said paratroopers. So big no from me.
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I know it’s nearly impossible to implement this in to the game. Just speaking about it would be cool. Maybe back then in 2007 I liked too much Medal of Honor: Airborne 
You just give the soldiers a parachute, then spawn controlling a plane without any weapons. When you jump out of the plane so do the rest of the squad.
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No thanks. Defenders being attacked from behind is already an issue on certain maps.
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…this isn’t Fortnite.
I can see why you made the suggestion, but agree with the other comments that the paras would be easy targets for the enemy. Maybe just simulate parachute insertion by allowing these squads to choose any point on the map (as done with artillery) to spawn. Maybe make this an unlockable squad upgrade?
It works like that in H&G and is annoying as hell. People use them just to land on top of cap points to get xp. For the rest, it’s a constant back and forward between the points, to kill a single guy hiding in the roof.
Okay lets think about it for a moment.
Right now we have already a mechanic implemented that you cannot drop everywhere or if you do you have only a small time frame to move into the area you should be or you die.
Experienced it myself with my pilots when I jumped out from my plane and was too far from that zone.
So I think that the zone paratroops could jump off, is okay.
The paratroops could of cource be sniped from the ground. I think that is fair for the benefit to spawn in over the map.
And if something like that is implemented I would like to see that the squad “spawns” in a line (a bit scattered), like it happens when you jump out from a plane.
With all that considered from my point of view it would be a cool addition.
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… you ever see this famous image before of about 13,000 paratroopers parachuting into an active battlefield
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As far as I am aware during Market Garden it was purely paratrooper drops that met strong resistance from the German side. They were dropped behind the frontline. And the fighting started after they landed.
What I’m talking about is droping paratroopers for no reason over active battlefield where there already is fight between infantry, tanks, CAS etc. It would be just stupid decision connected with slaughter of said paratroopers.
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maybe and then again maybe not, during the battle on the ground not many people are looking at the sky… that would be counter productive and you’d most likely end up with a hole through your head as your watching the clouds, dropping in by parachute during a battle actually has certain advantages over dropping in while its calm and the enemy is on high alert watching everywhere for any approaching enemy
In H&G, people would start to shoot paras with all kind of stuff, just for fun. Like killing them with a Panzerfaust mid air. Then devs added ability to open parachute later, which is very achistorical. This turned into a crap fest where paras would open parachutes just few meters above the landing target. Would camp inside of trees, inaccessible roof tops and etc. If they don’t go to point, they are just annoying and wasting everyones time, but landing on contested point is pretty much suicide for them. At the end, it turns into something like a controllable “teleport” to the roof of uncontested point, that’s it. Something that sounds cool, ends up being very lame.
If you want to roleplay, imagine that you’ve jumped with a parachute 5 kilometers away and just re-grouped with your squad on spawn.
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inaccessible roofs? where??? iv been able to get on every single roof in the game with an engineer’s sandbags…
and if people are shooting at the air their giving away their location and are asking to get an artillery strike dropped on them.
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It wasn’t an active battlefield, until after they landed. 
it was an active battlefield from the moment they jumped… why do you think they lost nearly 50% of their forces in a single fucking day… its a high risk high reward maneuver you can get thousands of troops on the ground in minutes… they even made dummy paratroopers (paradummy’s) to confuse the shit out of the enemy they would literally drop stitched canvas dolls to split their attention from just the ground to ground+air
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These where not meant to be dummies to be shot at… For example, on the territory of occupied France, there where patrols and various AA defense points. Paratroopers land scattered and before they can regroup, they are vulnerable. The dummies would occupy attention of patrols or forces dispatched to eliminate them, this is literally to make landing more secure. They don’t jump together with dummies.
Their typical task is to take and capture some point that allows to cut off enemy supply lines. Like for example an important bridge or a town. Their high loses come from planes being shot down and them being killed/wounded during operation as they typically a less well equipped to fight actual mechanized or infantry companies.
yea i know they wouldn’t drop in a group with the dummies… that would just make them easier to spot, and as you just confirmed they yes did use the dummies in MILDEC operations to confuse and preoccupy hostile ground forces.
As others have mentioned, you don’t drop soldiers directly into the battlefield. Easy picking for enemies, as you slowly glide through the air. What could be however done, is that paratrooper squads get a bonus spawn points all around the map (on the edges) to simulate that they have dropped away from the main force and are now reinforcing/flanking. A predetermined set of spawns on the sides of maps, no behind enemy spawns bs. And don’t let an engineer in I guess.
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my great granpa was in the 01st in normandy he was shot and killed in ferance a couple days after i think the 101st should be the only airborne able to drop and they could carry out diferent operations as should infantry like theairborne can take out enemy machine gun nest and all the otherr stuff while the marines army and air core focus on primary targets and also i think taht if teh 101st lands in trees or anything u should have the chanch to cut urself free and make it more realistic and the airborne should carry out opperaitions like while dday can happen with newbies while airbone can go in at night and carry out what the airbornes actual missons where thank u for making a great game