Command : DROP

NAME
drop - Use planes to drop commodities in your own sectors

Level: Expert

SYNTAX
[##:##] Command : dropoff

The "dropoff" command is used to resupply beleaguered friendly troops with
food, shells, reinforcements, and other necessities of battle.

represents a list of planes which are to travel to the target
sector. Only planes which are provided with gas, and have sufficient mobility
will be successfully selected for the mission.

represent a list of fighter planes which are capable of escorting
the transports all the way to the target. To be selected, escorts must have
fuel and mobility.

represents an assembly point, where all of the planes in the mission
meet before proceeding on to the target sector. The assembly point must be
owned by you or an ally, or you or an ally must have a ship there. It must
not be more than four sectors away from any of the planes selected for the
mission.

is the name of a commodity which is to be carried along on all of
the planes which have a transport capacity.

Route is a normal empire path specification. You may also give a destination
sector on the command line, or at any time while giving the route, and empire
will use the best path from the current sector to the desired destination sec-
tor.

When getting a path interactively, empire will show you the information you
have (from your bmap) concerning the current area, to help you plot your
course.

Planes which arrive safely at the target sector will drop the goodies off to
the waiting people below.

Any plane with the "mine" ability can mine a sector by dropping shells in a
sea sector.

Note that a plane must be at least 40% efficient before it can leave the
ground.

SEE ALSO
Plane-types, bomb, fly, paradrop, recon, Mobility, Planes, Commodities