Pelican Transport Helicopter
Airlifts 2 ground vehicles anywhere.
Stats
- Tier
- Tier 1
- Cost
- 280 metal
- Build time
- 16 s
- Hit points
- 380
- Armor
- Aircraft
- Speed
- 3.1 tiles/s
- Unit cap
- 1
- Vision
- 8 tiles
- Transport capacity
- 2 ground units
- Weapons
- Unarmed
Production and tech
The Pelican Transport Helicopter airlifts two ground vehicles anywhere on the map. It is unarmed but sturdy for an aircraft.
How to use
Drop a pair of tank destroyers on a cliff above the enemy's approach, land engineers on an island deposit, or evacuate a damaged Mammoth. Order units aboard as with a Landing Craft. Fly around anti-air, not over it, and unload outside turret range. Two Pelicans can put a small strike team behind an enemy base long before its tanks get there. A loaded Pelican shot down takes everything aboard with it, so plan the flight in, not the flight out.
Anecdotes
The most-produced helicopter in history is the Mil Mi-8 — more than seventeen thousand of them, hauling troops, freight, casualties and mail on every continent for sixty years. Transport is never the story, and it is always why there was one.