death in combat

Has anybody else been having issues with clan members dying in battle even with the -100% campaign setting? For some reason it worked just fine until about 2 or 3 years into the game when I left a kingdom as a mercenary and it bugged. Now not only will my clan members die in battle, they...

I was tempted to post this in the technical support section but since it is not technically a bug I am posting here instead. After a year of playing (less since permadeath was added later) I have just realized that losing a companion or family member in your party doesn't mean you have to lose...

Summary / How to Reproduce: After converting all non-ruling clans of a kingdom, that kingdom will only be left with the ruling clan and mercenary clans. If the last person of the ruling clan dies (either by combat or execution, not sure about old age), then all attached mercenary clans get wiped...

I had this happen many times where if you kill a clan leader either in combat or execution, their whole clans goes away and any clan member who was alive automatically dies. When wiping out vlandia and killing the last member of dey meroc, all the contracted mercenary clans and everyone in them...

Instead of chopping heads after capturing them and losing relationship with tons of people, is there a way to boost the chances of killing them in combat? Like using certain weapons, or doing really high damage like polearm + fast horse or something? Or is the chances that they die instead of...

is there anyway to disable death in combat i found it really annoying and unrealistic that in every army battle the leader of my kingdom commit a suicide attack and dies and most of my lords follow the same it makes the game map feel empty with so many lords dead