Condor Cargo Plane

The Condor is an unarmed four-engine cargo jet. Its hold carries four points of cargo weight, with a maximum of two per passenger. It can carry four light units, two Bison Battle Tanks, or one Bison and two light units. A Mammoth Heavy Tank or Tempest MLRS is too heavy for its ramp; use a Landing Craft or Moray Infiltration Submarine for those vehicles. Unlike the Pelican Transport Helicopter, it lands to load and unload.

How to use

Send the plane to the pickup point and order the units aboard from there: it parks where it comes down and the passengers walk out to it, so it will never go and fetch them. Told to wait over water or forest, it circles there at cruise like any other aircraft until it is sent somewhere it can put down; it never picks a landing spot for itself. The ramp only opens once the wheels are down, and the climb back out takes a few seconds during which it is low and slow, so pick a landing zone outside anti-air range, not one you have to fly out of under fire. On the ground it is a vehicle: SAMs and AA Turrets lose it the moment its wheels touch, but a tank, a gun turret or a Flak Track can shoot it where it stands, so the zone has to be clear of those too.

Use it to move engineers and light or medium vehicles over water and rough terrain. It has no way to defend itself, so scout the route and landing zone, and send a Falcon Fighter ahead when enemy aircraft threaten the flight.