Will armies without generals disband?

[homefry]

I'm about 50 turns in and never had an army without a general dsiband.

I recall reading this in the manual, but does this happen often? And if so, why?

[Don in the North]

low authority on your king causes low-loyalty generals to defect, and captains also are affected massively by low authority. they generally turn rebel, but alot of special units cant be rebel units, so they just disapear off map instead, leaving the units from the stack that can be rebel units, to become rebel units under a rebel captain

[Evolution]

usually they disband after 2-5 turns IF they are Idle. If you move them then they won't disband.

Why they disband? easy, Remember when you was in highschool and your teacher didn't turn up after ten minutes? DID you not do any work and talk

Imagen this:
Your in an army of 200-2000 men and their is no General in your army, and you've been stood on this Bridge for god knows how long. You could be up in Newcastle fighting the Scots but no... your just sat here not doing anything.

But then you could just leave your post and say.... go to a different town, because no ones going to know .


What im trying to say is, that you can avoid your army disbanding if you keep them moving. Its the same in Crusades if you decide not to move for 2 turns of march away for the crusade, then you will get a screen popping up saying DESERTION!

[Lost Crusader]

usually they disband after 2-5 turns IF they are Idle. If you move them then they won't disband.

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What im trying to say is, that you can avoid your army disbanding if you keep them moving.

Are you sure about this? If this is true, it would dramatically improve the way I handle my reinforcements.

[homefry]

Are you sure about this? If this is true, it would dramatically improve the way I handle my reinforcements.

No. I've had troops disband even after 1 turn.

[Evolution]

Are you sure about this? If this is true, it would dramatically improve the way I handle my reinforcements.

if they are currently attacking a city/castle then that army is doing somthing and won't disband.....


Homefry if they are disbanding after 1 turn then they are either really unloyal or you game is broke and needs reinstalling.

[~Beren~]

You guys do know you can turn off the issue with captains rebelling right?

[homefry]

You guys do know you can turn off the issue with captains rebelling right?

Are you referring to a hack or mod command?

[MattErickson]

Editing text files.

Moving or not moving an army does not make a different if it disbands or not.

Btw, by disband do you mean disappear or rebel?

[homefry]

Both.

I've never seen an army go rebel, but I've seen it disappear.

[Fingy]

what text file do i have to edit to stop my captains from rebelling?

[Lost Crusader]

Add ; in front of the rebelling_characters_active in the data\world\maps\campaign\imperial_campaign\descr_strat.txt

[M2TWRocks]

Add ; in front of the rebelling_characters_active in the data\world\maps\campaign\imperial_campaign\descr_strat.txt

Jeez, thanks man.

Just my two cents on this real quick.

There's nothing more annoying than being in a war with 3 or more nations; You're frantically trying to recruit a few stacks to fight a ten front war on multiple islands and whatnot; Yet, because for some damn reason the ai chose to spawn all your generals in some settlement in the middle of timbukto, you can't send your armies into battle for fear of the inevitable rebellion. So annoying.

There isn't a way to remove bribing by any chance is there?

[delra]

Isn't king's piety also a factor for them going rebel?

[~Beren~]

Isn't king's piety also a factor for them going rebel?

I belive you mean your king's Authority.

And yes, the higher the authority he has, the less likely your armies will rebel.

[gornison]

Its combination of kings autority and generals loyality. If you have general with " disloyal" or something trait dont give him army to comand. Once I lost 10 quite good units because of rebelius general. He gone rebel and atacked my factin heir.