Paratrooper tutorial?

[dresoccer4]

Is there a tutorial for loading and jumping a bunch of paratroopers? Looked on youtube but didn't see any results. Assume it's a little different than 'normal' loads.

[Silver_Dragon]

Actualy ED has no implement paratroopers.

[dresoccer4]

5 minutes ago, Silver_Dragon said:

Actualy ED has no implement paratroopers.

oh, I had thought I read that troops jumping was a thing. 

[MAXsenna]

3 minutes ago, dresoccer4 said:

oh, I had thought I read that troops jumping was a thing. 

Unfortunately. They teased it with some pictures when the C-47 was coming to the WWII Asser Pack, (you can search for pictures), but nothing came of it. Hopefully they will come now. Maybe they're waiting for the updated soldiers.  

[dresoccer4]

can you load regular troops into the cargo hold and drop them off the old fashioned way?

Edited December 1 by dresoccer4

[Jenrick]

Spawn them in the ME as ground units, then you can load and drop them just like any other vehicle. 

[Rotorhead09]

It still blows me away that you have the C-130 and you don't have Paratroopers with it. One of the main missions of the Herc for what 40+ years. You have the Jump Doors, the Static line the Retrieval system. And Chuteable Cargo but no Paratroopers. Hell the Free Annubis Mod had that ability 4 years ago. And we have a fully developed Paid mod that can't?? C'mon... 

[isotaan]

Not quite "no paratroopers." You can load infantry into the back. You can assign them parachutes. You can drop them out of the back ramp. They will deploy parachutes like any cargo. I did it manually, but conceivably you can use the computer for it.

What you can't do is drive a full load of 80+ infantry units without killing your frame rate while taxxiing. The infantry will tumble out uncontrollably if you try to do all of them at once.

[dresoccer4]

15 minutes ago, isotaan said:

The infantry will tumble out uncontrollably if you try to do all of them at once.

well now you just went ahead and talked me into trying this

 

[isotaan]

I know the saying is "sticks in the wind" but in this case that's what they look like. No orderly jump, just "everyone out!"

[theonefrancis]

You can definetly load troops into the plane and paradrop them wherever you want. 
You just need a group of infantrymen loaded like normal cargo, then release them in air (I suggest not to be higher than 1000ft as they are very light and takes a lot to get to the ground). They then act like normal infantry, so you can direct them with a game master.

You cannot drop them while on the ground unfortunately, they turn into mindless statics and roll all over the place. It's a bug.

[Shane45]

20 hours ago, Rotorhead09 said:

It still blows me away that you have the C-130 and you don't have Paratroopers with it. One of the main missions of the Herc for what 40+ years. You have the Jump Doors, the Static line the Retrieval system. And Chuteable Cargo but no Paratroopers. Hell the Free Annubis Mod had that ability 4 years ago. And we have a fully developed Paid mod that can't?? C'mon... 

Absokinlutely mate,  As a former Brit Para , not the main reason but  certainly one of the reasons for me buying the Herc was to be able  to drop troops like I did with Anubis, I'm sure it will come further down the updates. 

[carbolicus]

1 hour ago, Shane45 said:

Absokinlutely mate,  As a former Brit Para , not the main reason but  certainly one of the reasons for me buying the Herc was to be able  to drop troops like I did with Anubis, I'm sure it will come further down the updates. 

To be fair to ASC, this module’s only been out a week, and it’s been released in an incredibly good state.  To mis-quote the old slogan, “the impossible we’ve already done, the miraculous will take a little longer…!”

Have some patience and give them time to get some updates out!

[skynetsysadmin]

On 12/2/2025 at 2:15 PM, isotaan said:

You can load infantry into the back. You can assign them parachutes.

How do you assign the chutes to them? Do they show up in the cargo tab on the kneeboard/tablet?

[gabuzomeu]

On the ground, put an infantry group close to the aircraft back

open the ramp.

Ctl + c  to open efb, select cargo then stage. Select the infantry one by one, ( blue)

then in the cargo menu you can select staged units. When loaded you have to give them a chute ( same as with containers or any other payload)

That’s it

[skynetsysadmin]

20 hours ago, gabuzomeu said:

On the ground, put an infantry group close to the aircraft back

open the ramp.

Ctl + c  to open efb, select cargo then stage. Select the infantry one by one, ( blue)

then in the cargo menu you can select staged units. When loaded you have to give them a chute ( same as with containers or any other payload)

That’s it

Sweet! Thanks