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Troop Transport is a unit equipment type in Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri.

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The Troop Transport module allows a unit to transport other units by land, sea, or air, depending on the unit's chassis.

Only sea-going units can transport more than one unit at a time. A Foil can transport a number of units equal to twice its reactor value. A Cruiser can transport a number of units equal to four times its reactor value.

Transports can normally transport only ground units, but seagoing transports can be given the Carrier Deck special ability to allow them to transport and refuel air units.

While land-based transports (trucks) might at first not seem to make much sense, take note that they can effectively increase the range of your land-based units. With armor, they can double as garrison (thought they won't count as police). If you engage in ICS and have roads between bases, and have each base garrisoned with a land transport, you can transport any new unit into the front lines or frontier by transporting it from its home base to a nearby base, unloading, then loading on the existing transport there, moving to the next base, and so on, until it reaches the front line (like a futuristic Pony Express). A unit that is vulnerable (ran out of moves right next to a strong enemy) can be rescued by a Rover Transport, or if it is on a roaded tile next to a base, by an Infantry Transport.

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Alpha Centauri Units
Chassis Copter Cruiser Foil Gravship Hovertank Infantry Missile Needlejet Speeder
Reactor Fission Plant Fusion Reactor Quantum Chamber Singularity Engine
Weapon Chaos Gun Fusion Laser Gatling Laser Graviton Gun Hand Weapons Laser Missile Launcher Particle Impactor Plasma Shard Psi Attack Quantum Laser Resonance BoltX Resonance LaserX Singularity Laser String DisruptorX Tachyon Bolt
Missiles Conventional Payload Fungal PayloadX Planet Buster Tectonic PayloadX
Equipment Alien Artifact Colony Module Probe Team Supply Transport Terraforming Unit Troop Transport
Armor Antimatter Plate Neutronium Armor No Armor Photon Wall Plasma Steel Armor Probability Sheath Psi Defense Pulse 3 ArmorX Pulse 8 ArmorX Resonance 3 ArmorX Resonance 8 ArmorX Silksteel Armor Stasis Generator Synthmetal Armor
Special abilities AAA Tracking Air Superiority Algorithmic EnhancementX Amphibious Pods Antigrav Struts Blink Displacer Carrier Deck Clean Reactor Cloaking Device Comm Jammer Deep Pressure Hull Deep Radar Dissociative WaveX Drop Pods Empath Song Fuel NanocellsX Fungicide Tanks Heavy Artillery Heavy Transport High Morale Hypnotic Trance Marine DetachmentX Nerve Gas Pods Non-Lethal Methods Polymorphic Encryption Repair Bay Slow Unit Soporific Gas PodsX Super Former
Predesigned units Colony Pod Former Probe Team Scout Patrol Sea Escape PodX Sea Former Supply Crawler Transport Foil
Relic units Alien Artifact Unity Foil Unity GunshipX Unity Mining LaserX Unity Rover Unity Scout Chopper
Native units Fungal TowerX Isle of the Deep Locusts of Chiron Mind Worms SealurkX Spore LauncherX
Progenitor units Battle Ogre MK1X Battle Ogre MK2X Battle Ogre MK3X
X Added in Alien Crossfire
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