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4.2: The Air Transport | [Back to the WarGuide]
This takes a little while to set up but increases speed about 1000 fold with little or no micromanagement of troops. Build your transports/units and load them. Then move the transports away and tell them to stop (to keep track of them). Build a light expendable vehicle. Tell one of the transports to GUARD the light vehicle and then use SHIFT to tell the transport to unload where you want it to. IT's best to then tell the transport to move away from the drop site (also using SHIFT). Do this with all the other transports. When you're done self destruct the light unit. The transports GUARD function will stop and the next thing on the list is to drop the units. So they fly off, drop the units and fly to where ever you told them to go after dropping the units. This gets rid of those ultra-slow unload times and HEAPS of micromanagement. You can also use the air transport to load crawling bombs, which basically creates a type of kamikaze plane. Timing is crucial though, because you have to hit CTRL-D 5 seconds before you expect the transport to reach its target. Also, you can use transports to hinder enemy production by capturing their construction units. This is a really good tactic to use against a Porc player.