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Drewbacca

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Jump Infantry and VTOLs
« on: 01 April 2020, 17:26:12 »
Can VTOLs carry jump infantry and deploy them while in flight?
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Daryk

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Re: Jump Infantry and VTOLs
« Reply #1 on: 01 April 2020, 17:30:28 »
Yes.
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Re: Jump Infantry and VTOLs
« Reply #2 on: 01 April 2020, 18:29:46 »
Jump Infantry seem to be treated as Paratroopers with Jet Packs.
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Simon Landmine

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Re: Jump Infantry and VTOLs
« Reply #3 on: 01 April 2020, 19:31:25 »
Quote from: Drewbacca on 01 April 2020, 17:26:12
Can VTOLs carry jump infantry and deploy them while in flight?

TacOps, p225 covers how it works, rules-wise.
Concept-wise, I believe that, as SteelRaven put it, they use their jump packs to provide jet-braking when they hurl themselves out of the VTOL.
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Re: Jump Infantry and VTOLs
« Reply #4 on: 01 April 2020, 20:18:18 »
Total Warfare, not TacOps.

TacOps has the rules for using ziplines to deploy infantry without Jump MP from VTOLs.
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