Battlestations: Midway/Neutral: Difference between revisions

The toughest to destroy of the above cargo ships, troop transports can still be sent to the bottom via machine gun fire, but only to their decks. This makes them immune to machine gun fire from sea level, as well as anti-aircraft. They can easily be sunk by a PT boat's twin torpedoes, however. Enemy invasion fleets, most notably in [[Battlestations: Midway/Defence of the Phillipines|Defence of the Phillipines]], contain a few troop transports coupled with LCP landing craft and the larger LSTs for landing armoured units. Troop transports are never a threat to any kind of warship, however.

'''Official Description:''' Both the U.S. and Imperial navies have co-opted a large number of civilian cruise ships for the purpose of transporting soldiers over long distances. When close to a landing zone, the troops then disembark into landing craft such as the Higgins boats or Daihatsu barges to reach the shore. As these are civilian ships, they are not armoured, which makes them easy targets. However, they are usually fitted with some light armament to give them a chance against attackers.''