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Transports

Transports are special ВВС units which are capable of transporting max of 10 units. They are available in both campaign and multiplayer, but their usage and properties differ.

Зона высадки

Landing zone, often abbriviated with LZ, is an area of map which transports can land on. They are only used in campaign.


Empty landing zone.

Кампания

Usage

In campaign transports are solely used for transporting units to other maps on away missions. They can load any юнит. They are automaticaly moved and aren't allowed to be controlled by player.

Controlling

You don't control movement of transports, but you control it loading/unloading units.

Loading units is very simple: select units you want to load on it, and then clck on the transport. Selected units will travel to the transport and load themselves on it. Alternate way of doing this is to open Юнит menu and click on "Идти к транспорту" button. The юнит(s) will proceed same way, no matter what method you use.


Loading selected units to transport.


"Идти к транспорту" option in Юнит menu.


"Launch transport" button.

Unloading units is also possible. Left click on the transport and a menu will show on left of your screen, showing all units currently into your transport. Clcking on any of them will unload it from transport. When sent to away mission, loaded units in your transport will all automaticly unload upon landing.


Menu showing units loaded to transport.

Destructive value

Like all units, transports are also destructible. But, their health points are really high, and enemies won't attack them, so there is no need to worry about losing your transport. They also carry a HMG, which doesn't get used at all, but wouldn't do anything special otherwise.

Away missions

Away missions are missions often in campaign, where you board some units on your transport and leave your home base, doing your tasks on other maps. There, all your connection with your home base is your transport. But, let's start from the beggining:

Loading units

You are told your objective, and you start at your homebase. Whole map clear of enemies! Don't be happy. Soon, you will be on a map filled with enemies. So, pick 10 units you will send there. If you have been told that no reinforcements are available, pick wisely as your 10 picked units will have to survive on their own! So, load them on the transport. In upper left corner you will see an icon of a transport, also showing number of units loaded. By clicking on it, you will launch your transport. It will fly in a predefined direction, towards edges of map, and disappear.

Landing

Now, after a short blackout, you will find yourself on a map without any your units on it. Then your transport will emerge from edge of the map, revealing your LZ and maybe some other parts of the map. It will land on the LZ, unload your units and return to the edge of the map. Now, you can use your trucks to build defenses at your LZ, call reinforcements (if available), or rush all your tanks to the enemy. The strategy depends of the mission.

Calling reinforcements

Some missions don't allow reinforcements, some allow them only some period of time, but most of them allow reinforcements all the time. By calling reinforcements you get more units on the away mission, by transporting them from your homebase. You call for reinforcements by clicking on the transport icon in upper left corner. Then two menus show up. One on left shows units loaded on the transport, and the one on right shows all units in your homebase. By clicking on a юнит in your homebase, you load it in the transport instantly. Вкл upper left corner of the left menu, you will find another transport icon. By clicking on it you will launch the transport with units loaded on it. Now, the timer on transport icon in upper left corner will start. As it reaches 0, your units will be unloaded at the LZ. You can repeat it as long as you have units in your homebase.
Your units can't be returned to your homebase manually.


"Загрузить Транспорт" button.


2 menus with units on the transport(left) and units in the homebase(right), with "Загрузить Транспорт" button in left menu.

Doing the mission

You do the mission. That is it. You do it. However, beware of following, as it may help you greatly...

Manging your homebase while at away missions:
While at away missions, your power will generate and you can research and produce almost as you were at your homebase all the time. You only can't see it, and you can only build on current map using trucks present at the map(Also note that you can't build most of system structures.) You will have to use menus in order to achieve it. Юниты you produce will be at their deliver points, and can be transported to the away mission map.


Producing units in your homebase while at away mission.


Building a defense on away mission.


Building list on away missions. Notice that most of systems structures aren't available.

Finishing the mission

As soon as you finish the main objective, you will be alerted with a message: "Вернуться к зоне высадки". Then you should send all your units to your LZ. Alternately, if you destroyed ALL enemy structures and units, you will automaticly win. There are also some exceptions to this.


"Вернуться к зоне высадки" alert.

Multiplayer

Кампания and multiplayer aren't the same...

Usage

Usage of transports in multiplayer greatly differs from usage in campaign. It is used to transport units across the map. But not any юнит! Only cyborgs! Tanks will still have to travel on their own.

Controlling

As usage changes, controlling also does. In multiplayer, you can just select the transport and order it where to go, just like you would do with any other ВВС. Loading is the same. You select units you want to load on the transport, and then click on the transport. Примечание that in multiplayer you can have multiple transports, and using the button in юнит menu will send it to nearest transport, which may not be the one you would like to load them to. Unloading can be done by right clicking on the transport, which will open the menu with units inside the transport, and then clicking on a юнит inside the transport will unload it. Alternate way is to select the transport, and then click on ground while holding "Alt". That action will make the transport fly to that location and automatically unload all of units inside it.