
also do you know why troops keep deserting my companions parties?
Sometimes bandits and looters and such have captured peasants. When your companions defeat these groups they have the option to take on these captured peasants as new troops which they always do, putting them over their troop limit and causing their troops to desert until they're under the limit again. It needs to be fixed.

Is there a mod which keeps Companions from doing this? Taking on peasants and/or taking on troops that cause overflow?