I haven’t used paratroopers or played br5 at all, I’m just michaeljacksonthrillerpopcorn.gif following this thread with sadistic delight.
Yeah more than happy to man
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I find that guerrillas always get killed before reaching a tank, I’d prefer para dropping on the tank if I really wanted it gone
Not all tanks Spawn are suitable for counter tanks just saying sometimes is better to sneak and take em out by urself
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That’s where I’d rather use a saboteur, less attention and the extra sprint speed is nice
I checked your replays and no wonder you don’t want to do 1v1.
You are an X-Box console player with crossplay turned off 
Now i understand where all your horribly out of touch takes coming from 
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This just made my day thank you i actually laughed IRL so hard
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On a more serious note, there’s a reason that this guy truly believes that this is true btw.
After seeing his multiple replays, he almost always exclusively plays with console players only by tuning off the crossplay AND almost always playing low BR games.
He actually never really met a decent enemy team consists of decent PC players so his paradrops never really had been disrupted by transport airplanes gets shot down by AA nor paratroopers gets shot down in mid air. It’s been breeze for him to use Paratroopers because his enemies all had been low BR console players and bots.
No wonder he thinks that the Paratroopers are the most versatile and powerful squads in the game.
Literally first game of replays is high BR I play all BRs with crossplay off and on but good job, you can look at my last week of replays 
Still Michaeljacksonthrillereatingpopcorn.giffing over here. This is great. Half the replies are temporarily hidden now, but I’ve read them. Can’t wait to play Paras and either be pissed off at how lame they are or super OP and winning every match. Some day i will agree with one of you, or maybe you’re both too extreme in your opinions. Only time and experience will tell.
That’s a journey for yourself to find out my friend. They are extremely versatile and powerful if you make the right choices but at the same time your drop can go completely wrong sometimes. Like I said, high risk high reward 
I don’t disagree with either of you, i relish the prospect of having more tactical and strategic variety available. I’m sure I’ll make excellent, and very poor use of paratroopers, depending on the match, and the quality of my decisions to use them. Based on what I’m reading here, I wouldn’t recommend them for f2p players with limited squad slots, as it seems like they’re more useful when dropped, which isn’t nearly always a viable option.
You can always spawn them on the ground as quick assaulters but they come with limited ammunition. As a ftp player I’d probably just stick with assulter, engineer and machine gunner.
Yeah, that’s my point based on what I’ve read above. I’m not f2p, I’m premium + 1 extra slot for usa and germany, but still new since march, so have many fewer squads than most vocal people on here and discord. I will say tho that a lot of discussions by veteran players forget/ignore the experience of newer players while complaining about some thing or another, and then in the next thread complain about how few players there are. Not saying that specifically applies here, just seems like a good place to drop the observation.
Talking about ammo being OP - but literally spawning ontop of the enemy is fine.
Cute double standards.
For real though, the only OP thing about paras is their increased HP. They have 15 HP effectively just like soviet armor.
Makes no sense as a balance argument.
Qualities of life limitation will always make something “unfun”. Its simply just as stupid of a balance limitation as FG42 starting in semi auto used to be. AI for example doesn’t even consume ammo.
As a gigantic whale who buys almost all the premium squads in this game. The 1 premium type I never buy are paratroopers (only exception is THA LMG Paratroopers, funny gun shield). By far the most useless squad in the whole entire game. I’d dare say medics are better because at least the AI would heal my wounded soldiers in my squad or any soldiers around them automatically
Paratroopers take way too long to deploy when compared to last time. It now takes about 2 minutes before u even touch the ground (provided u don’t die before that). Your AI Paratroopers in your squad used to pull the chute perfectly in sync with your timing which should be 150m from the ground to reduce the amount of time spent in the air, whilst not dying from fall damage. But now they pull the chute way too high.
The real nail into the coffin was when they added the Red Arrow and Lead Indicator to the Transport plane. Now any crossplay brain-dead person ahem can see the gigantic red arrow go across the screen (already can hear the loud booms from the flak and NAOOWWWWW, from the transport plane already) have an AA setup and kill the plane before it reaches anywhere near the playable battlefield, or just stand where u can literally predict that para will drop and melee him as soon as he touches the ground. Or that an enemy plane passing by the battlefield will see your transport plane with a lead indicator and just down it because it literally no longer takes skill to kill transport planes anymore (to further make a point, I used to not be able to tell if a para plane was behind me when flying because my plane engine was so loud that it drowns out the flak and transport plane sound. But now seeing that Big Red Arrow on my screen, I can literally turn around and kill it easily.)
Paratroopers should be given more ammo when spawned on ground because at this point (they are so weak), I would only use them for variety in my setup.
They are just too restricted to so little ammo that they aren’t worth bringing at all (even with extra vitality they have). The fact that they have to compete with other infantry premiums/event squads (only comparing other similar size and number of special gun squads) for the squad like: MG45, MG42E, MG39, T24, NKVD Thomson, Fed MG, Belt fed BP, AT 44, Sichuan Tommy and SMG, PPK, ERMA EMP, TZ45, Horn STG, etc (I can’t be bothered to list them all). And still fight for my limited amount of squads that I can bring (12 squad slots are not enough).
Just imagine weighing MG42E Vs Paratrooper. Premiums in this game should the same appeal level so that people would actually buy them lol. Each time there is a sale for squads, I will never fail to laugh at those who buy the paras only to waste $30 to get shot down from the sky
All these cons are why paratroopers are just so useless.
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Calm down bro, no need to be passive aggressive over an opinion. Of course you’d bring body armour into this 
there’s always one.
My whole point is that you can either spawn on top of the enemy as intended but you shouldn’t be able to use them as regular infantry squads that are better than tech tree squads. They would be even more versatile than they already are and over shadow tech tree squads. Hell they already are better than AT and mortar squads for the larger amount of ammo you get.
Mr.TJLockie pentarupling down despite the majority of people and poll says otherwise.
It really is special isn’t it?
Wait a minute.
That makes it even more hilarious.
You are a F2P player without any premium squad.
So you never really even used any of the premium paratroopers on BR 5.
Yet you claims them “iNsANeLy oP iF tHeY gEtS MoRe aMmO”.
Huh.
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