Friendly Armies have ADD

[Rollotamasi]

So I spent the first 200 days of the game complaining about how worthless my factions marshal was.  His idea of a campaign was to sit around for 4 days and then ride to the other side of the map and attack a caravan or two.  Well, finally at around day 230 they finally elected ME marshal.  I had been hoping for it for sometime so we could actually get something accomplished.  We have a three front war going on and one faction is almost wiped out so my first official act as marshal was to wipe them out.  Well, heres the problem. (Please keep in mind I have no idea if this is a issue in native as well because I only played native for about a week before starting mods).  I cant get my bloody armies to one spot.  This is PAINFULLY annoying.  I will gather like 8 lords and tell them to follow me.  By the time I actually get to where I want to attack 7 of them have ran off chasing a caravan or renegade knights or raider or my personal favorite...two of my armies (both 100+) ran off to chase 3 heretics.  Is there anyway to get everyone from point A to point B together without having them chasing anything that moves?

 

[Arzeal]

Native issue ...

 

[saxondragon]

So I spent the first 200 days of the game complaining about how worthless my factions marshal was.  His idea of a campaign was to sit around for 4 days and then ride to the other side of the map and attack a caravan or two.  Well, finally at around day 230 they finally elected ME marshal.  I had been hoping for it for sometime so we could actually get something accomplished.  We have a three front war going on and one faction is almost wiped out so my first official act as marshal was to wipe them out.  Well, heres the problem. (Please keep in mind I have no idea if this is a issue in native as well because I only played native for about a week before starting mods).  I cant get my bloody armies to one spot.  This is PAINFULLY annoying.  I will gather like 8 lords and tell them to follow me.  By the time I actually get to where I want to attack 7 of them have ran off chasing a caravan or renegade knights or raider or my personal favorite...two of my armies (both 100+) ran off to chase 3 heretics.  Is there anyway to get everyone from point A to point B together without having them chasing anything that moves?

It is funny that you called this ADD, as I listed it exactly like as "something to be addressed" in the next Pop Release.

As Azreal has pointed out, it is a native issue.  However, I did make some slight modifications in the next release (maybe that is medications?), to help them keep focused.

I agree it is a pain, it is frustrating, but... in the same token it is also more real than not.  Leading  Lords around is like herding cats..

Best,

Saxondragon

 

[noosers]

One of the easier ways to herd faction Lords is to send the to a nearby town or castle and pick them up there. I´m usually doing it that way. Still, marshalling fellow Lords is a painful task.

 

[froggyluv]

I've asked this in other threads but never got an answer: Wouldn't it be possible to lower the Aggressivness stat and up the Courage stat of your Lords when going on war campaign? Aggressiveness and Courage are scaled from 0-15 with 15 being the highest, and a standard soldier personality is Aggressivness:8;Courage:11. So when declaring your Lords go to War wouldn't it be possible to lower the Aggression level, so they won't go chasing farmers, and up their Courage (perhaps dictated by your relationship/renown) so that they don't leave you hanging?

 

[Michiko]

I've never been in command of such a large army of lords, so I don't know the full extent of it, but for example in 1257, I ended the game with only 2 lords on our side + my army (I joined a rebellion), and it was much easier to manage them. But yeah, it got annoying sometimes when they were around me, as we're taking siege of a castle, then suddenly they go chasing around some bandit crew and stuff. And it takes them days to finish the battle even if they're fighting only like 20 bandits or something. So I don't want to abandon the siege just to speed things up, cuz the friggen siege tower is already built...

I can just imagine that but with like 10 lords in the picture. Haha. I'm on the way to that in Pendor, so we'll see if I get annoyed with it too.

 

[Arzeal]

I'm terrified when I read ur post, Saxon  even nijis had problem with his latest creation of AI
If u can fix it, do u mind to look at
http://forums.taleworlds.com/index.php/topic,54103.0.html
to see how he has modified campaign map AI?
The demonstration campaign is here: http://forums.taleworlds.com/index.php/topic,53887.0.html