Paratroop question

[Weasel]

When I was building my Red Army tournament I noticed that they would stay in the helos as long as a human controlled them. But if you were playing the AI the dumb computer would unload everyone, silly.

So yes, you must deploy them in the scenario setup as loaded, and enter their reinforcement hex while in the helo. So the helo has a reinforcement hex and turn showing if you browse it in the unit list. The paras will be listed as passengers only.

You are correct, delaying drops etc is not realistic. In the GH tourny I only did it because there were no rules saying otherwise. Thus no foul, no harm done.