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You can stick your Air Force inside a 'Festung'.
This way you're soften the required/provided command penalty.

But an airbase and many planes inside a structure (a city, a fort, a festung...)?
Is this a good design decision?
At least, it's kind of wierd.

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Fortresses cn be pretty big as can be cities so I see no problem with this. I expect the air units will take attrition damage during siege resolution as any other unit...

You'll also impact overcapacity on all combats units in case of a battle. So that's not a great tactical decision.

Pocus wrote:You'll also impact overcapacity on all combats units in case of a battle. So that's not a great tactical decision.

I don't understand - I often put air units in fortresses for their command and artillery bonuses - are you saying besieged units will actually perform worse in combat despite the advantages of air support?

If you put more elements inside any structure than the structure's capacity value (which is 25 for forts/redoubts, if I remember correctly), then those units will begin to suffer combat penalties.

Huh, I did not know that - makes sense, and I figured it was something like that, but I couldn't find anything about it in the manual. Thanks, ohms_law.

Is there a way to see a structure's available capacity in-game?

Select a unit inside a structure then hover your cursor over the small target symbol in the element detail panel. It will show you the structure's safe limit.

Forts/Redoubts have s safe limit of 25*fort level.
Cities/Towns have a safe limit of 10*city level.

If you have a fortified city, the fortification safe limit level overrides the city safe limit level; i.e., troops inside a level 2 fort, which is part of a level 6 city, will have a safe limit level of 50 elements, not 60 (e.g. Brest-Litovsk).

Ah, thanks Red Baron. I thought I'd seen it in a tooltip somewhere once upon a time, but couldn't remember where.