Barracks capacity

[Ramsar]

In the tooltip of the AI barracks it says that they can hold up to 1200 units. However, in my game the AI only fills them up with 200 units and then starts building carriers. Is this a bug or is it dependent on the AI type to which extent barracks are filled?

[x4000]

It is expected. It really varies how much the ai will put in there, but 200 is more common.

[BobTheJanitor]

I've seen this same thing consistently. What scenario would cause the AI to put 1200 units in a barracks? Or even, say, 201 units in a barracks?

[x4000]

1. Playing on high caps and having a lot of units reinforced to an ai planet at once would possibly get you 1200.
2. Also, being at an ai planet with enough military that they are not in cold storage, and then leaving while a ton of them are still alive and thus all go into cold storage a once.
3. Also, loading older savegames from before the barracks mechanic.
4. To get 201 or more units, all it takes is a larger-than-average reinforcement, high caps, multiple reinforcements at once to the same planet, or again #2 from above.