Unit Transfers

Transferring Air Units

Air units can currently only be transferred by assigning them to a mission and setting their arrival airbase to their new location. Units will relocate to their arrival airbase for the next turn regardless of where they land.

Transferring Ground Units

This feature is new in DCS Liberation 2.6.

Ground units can be moved between bases by opening a base's menu and clicking the "Transfer Units" button at the bottom of the page. This button will only be present if there is a safe path (following the front line paths) from the selected base to another friendly base. In the transfer creation window, select the destination base and the units to move, then click "Create Transfer Order" to accept.

Units being transferred will not appear in the base's inventory, and will not be able to join combat at the front line. To see a list of all in-progress unit transfers, click the "Transfers" button in the top bar. Transfers can be cancelled from this menu as well. Cancelled transfers will add the units in transfer to the inventory at their current location.

Road transfers move toward their destination at a speed of one control point per turn. Airlift transfers will complete their full journey in one turn. Airlifts are used automatically when the target cannot be reached by road.

If the transfer destination is cut off due to a base capture, the transfer will be cancelled and the units will be added to the inventory at their current location. If the transferring units are surrounded (the base they left at the beginning of the turn was captured, as were the connecting bases), the units are destroyed.

Units transferring by ground will be present as a convoy in the mission. The convoy will spawn at its origin base and move on-road to the next base on its path to its final destination. Convoys are vulnerable to attack, so interdiction of enemy convoys will prevent the front line from receiving those reinforcements on a future turn.

Units transferring by airlift will not be directly present in the mission but will be represented by helicopters and cargo planes flying between the origin and destination. Shooting down transport aircraft will destroy the carried units, preventing those reinforcements from reaching the front line.

Further work that's planned for 2.6: