How do I stop my allies using up all their air base capacity?

[ibicdlcod]

I'm USA and want to do the Normandy naval invasion and I need planes to support them (and strategic bomb Germany as well). I built max air base in all of England in order to have both UK and me having space. But UK just spam fighters (over 10,000 of them) and eats up all the capacity making my planes useless. And these fighters are not doing anything, just staying in the bases!

 

[Federkiel]

I referred to AI ENGs embarrasing overproduction of FTR elsewhere and won't repeat that here.

Some time ago in a patch / update AI behaviour had been changed to leave air bases if overcrowded. And indeed this did work - at least for some time. Cannot comment on whether this has been rolled back again.

I can only recommend you to put planes into the desired locations and wait for some ingame time (a week or so). Maybe you should also start doing missons so that AI acts accordingly to reduce mission efficiency loss.

If this does not work anymore, i am sorry to not know any other solution.

 

[Joshua Happytree]

May be:

• Fill in new air-wings with planes right before you complete an air base upgrade then relocate it there immediately after the upgrade. Or...
• Move an air wing to an airbase at the expense of overcrowding and upgrade the air base so that you won't have overcrowding after upgrade.

My guess is ENG AI won't overcrowd the air bases so once you get your share of the pie you can more or less cling to it. @Federkiel what do you think?