Dropship
Unit
Affiliation	GDI
Role	Transport
Protection	Heavy

Dropships are heavy duty military freighters, capable of transporting large amounts of soldiers, mechs and other equipment long distances.

Contents 1 Background 2 In-game 2.1 Important 3 Gallery

BackgroundEdit

With four powerful engines and a massive hold, the Dropship is the next generation cargo plane. It has full VTOL capability and can fly into a combat zone to deploy substantial GDI forces nearly instantly. In fact, it can even ferry the dreaded Mammoth Mk. II.

A number of dropships were equipped with atmospheric entry thermal shields and significantly more powerful engines, allowing them to land on the GDSS Philadelphia. They are known to crash during Ion storms, like all other aircraft.

The Dropship was not seen in the Third Tiberium War due to being replaced by the new Ox transports.

In-gameEdit

The dropships are computer-controlled units that deliver the player's forces to the combat zone in single player missions. In custom made scenarios they can be controlled by players if allowed to, however, due to engine limitations they can only carry infantry.

In single player, dropships (like Orca Transports) can be scripted to drop off all kinds of units.

Important Edit

Due to a bug involving air units, much of the original code had to be re-written in one of the early TS patches. Because the dropship was not intended to be player controlled, Westwood did not fix a new bug caused by the changes. This lead to the dropship to "glitching out" and becoming uncontrollable. Due to this bug, unless you are using a old version of TS or a modified version that fixes this, it is not recommended that you make this unit available in multiplayer.

Gallery Edit

v·d·e ORCA Aircraft
First Tiberium War ORCA Assault Craft Second Tiberium War Orca Fighter • Orca Bomber • Orca Carryall • Orca Dropship • Orca Transport • Orca Command Third Tiberium War A-15 Orca • Orca Strike Craft • ZOCOM Orca Third Interbellum Orca Mk. IV Ascension Conflict Orca Mk. V Cancelled Tiberium Orca drone

v·d·e Global Defense Initiative Second Tiberium War Arsenal

Units Infantry Light infantry • Jump jet infantry • Field medic • Disc thrower • Engineer • Ghost Stalker • Riot soldier (campaign only) Vehicles Amphibious APC • Wolverine • Titan • Hover MLRS • Disruptor • Mammoth Mk. II • Harvester • MCV • Mobile EMP • Juggernaut • Mobile war factory • Limpet drone • Mobile sensor array • Hunter-Seeker droid Aircraft Orca Fighter • Orca Bomber • Orca Carryall • Orca Dropship • Orca Transport Other Mammoth tank (campaign only)   Structures Production Construction yard • Tiberium refinery • Barracks • War Factory • Mobile war factory • Helipad Support Power plant (Power turbine upgrade) • Radar station • Service depot • Tiberium silo • Upgrade center • Tech center • Orca Command (cutscenes only) Defenses Gate • Pavement • Component tower (Vulcan/RPG/SAM) • EMP cannon • Firestorm generator • Firestorm wall section Upgrades Ion cannon uplink • Drop pod control plug • Seeker control Cut content Dropship bay   Other Misc. Kodiak • Searchlight tower Support powers Ion cannon strike • Hunter-Seeker release • Drop pod release Items in italics are exclusive to Firestorm