Port

The Port is your airfield and the gateway to an air force. It holds 8 aircraft, builds Planes and Pelicans (each takes a slot), musters Paratroopers, and serves as the pad where your aircraft fly home to reload and refuel. The Port requires a Paper Press.

Production

The Port fields the whole airborne roster:

• Plane — fast strike flier (uses an aircraft slot)
• Pelican — Paratrooper transport (uses an aircraft slot)
• Paratrooper — elite airborne infantry, mustered here

It holds 8 aircraft at a time, so Planes and Pelicans compete for the same eight slots. Planes also return to the Port to reload once their attack runs are spent.

Fuel and endurance

Aircraft can only stay aloft for so long before they must return to a Port to refuel. When a flier’s fuel runs low it automatically breaks off and flies back to the nearest Port, lands to refuel and reload, then relaunches. If it cannot reach a Port in time — because you have lost your airfields, or your only Port is too far away — it runs dry and crashes. Keep at least one Port standing and near the front so your aircraft always have somewhere to land.

If you lose every Port, your fliers have nowhere to refuel: any aircraft still airborne run dry and crash. With no pad to land on, they cannot survive.

Strategy

The Port is the single point of your air game — so treat it as critical infrastructure. One Port opens Planes, Pelicans, and Paratroopers, and its eight slots hold a real air wing — though a busy air game will still want a second Port. Guard it well: because your fliers depend on it to reload, refuel, and survive, losing your Ports grounds and eventually kills your entire air force. Place it back from the front but not too far — fliers that run low on fuel need a Port within reach — and screen it with Plasma Pulse Projectors so the enemy cannot snipe your airfield and take the whole wing with it.