I don't like what happened to the game after parachuting was introduced

there were 10k paratroopers and 750 gliders (out of 22k force). losses were around 45% for paratroopers. they dropped first, with mountaineers and seamen reinforcing them later. overall there were ~5800 casualties out of that ~4700 paratroopers and ~1100 mountaineers. considering that later fights only saw casualties up to ~10% for mountaineers, i dont believe paratroopers suffered much more than that considering that they were mostly fighting with them. so that leaves ~35-40% losses on first day of combat. i cant find casualty statics for battles after the jump, just have overall casualty statics, but stories corroborate that it was pretty bad for german paratroopers that were hot dropped as planned. those numbers werent higher cause some actually missed landing zone and some others werent dropped in middle of enemy.

overall battle of crete was a lesson on why you dont hot drop. those who hot dropped had casualties of over 60% with some having been almost wiped out.

It was more a lesson on rushing a major operation with no/bad intelligence. (they dropped thinking there was only 4000 soldiers on the island, not 40,000)

but we could argue all day on numbers, going back to the initial point, if you get fired on while dropping, it’s a hot drop. And that is just the nature of being a paratroop as well as being surrounded. its why they were paid more…highly likely they were feeerrked