Misguided said:1. While that may be perfectly true, the whole "Less numbers showing up in the fight, and always on MY side.." bit is a known bug from Native. Pain in the ass.
I just rip this quote out of context, as this is the first relevant entry in the search for the "Less numbers showing up in the fight, and always on MY side.." bit (not my search query, though ). Needed it as an introduction.
I had an idea while playing that this problem may be because of the same reason lords can't field more then a certain number of different troops. The player can't have more than 32 (I think) kinds of units in his party and neither can lords.
So I thought that maybe the units in battle can't be more than 32 different kinds of units, either. So if you have only Sarleon units and fight together with only Sarleon lords, you might be able to actually field all fit troops you and your Sarleon allies have. When you have Pendor troops and join a battle with Sarleon, Ravenstern, Empire and D'shar parties against Fierdsvain parties, the number of listed fit units would then be much lower than it really is (if my assumption is right), as the number of different unit kinds would be much higher than 32 (You'd have units from Recruit to Knight and from all factions).
I don't know if that had already been thought about in for example the place where the bug from Native has been discussed that Misguided referred to, but I thought I'd just post it in a new thread, to be sure.
Edit: I just started a new character and had 32 units with maybe 16 different unit kinds. I joined the war-party from the Fierdsvain in a battle against the D'shar. The Fierdsvainers of course had roughly the same kinds of units. In the battle we had something like seven hundred units, so that would support the theory that the numbers shown before the battle depend on the 32-troop-limit.
Edit 2: I just came upon a battle, where one of the fighting lords was not shown. I found that odd and checked the number off different troops. And, wonder oh wonder, the number I counted was 32. It is a battle between one Fierdsvain lord and three hostile lords. Last lord to join the battle was Bionr Legatus, who isn't shown in the image (-> spoiler). I guess several troops are also excluded. Interesting is that he fought in the battle when I joined it, as did some of my units, which makes me wonder, how the system decides who gets to fight and who doesn't.
See also: Thread in "The Apothecary"