In Progress Troops keep disapearing in companions parties

[Antoine42]

So, my companion army keeps loosing men for no apparent reason, I don't get any messages regarding desertions as I usually do when desertions due to morale occurs, they have food cause they are in my army, I'm not broke so they get payed, still my brother and 2nd in command (you know, the dude with like 140 leadership and steward) keeps disbanding knights and other high tier troops every now and then. He's also within his limit.

 

[uçanbiblo]

Hello, have you encountered the same issue after updating your game to e1.5.2 or beta e1.5.3? I will inform the devs about the issue, but if you can confirm that this problem persists with the latest version that would be great. Thank you for your time.

 

[Antoine42]

I might have screwed the version number, I think it was already in e1.5.2.

Anyways, I hadn't noticed but in fact he's giving troops to the towns I enter. I never noticed them doing that before, and I'd say I'm not a huge fan of this idea

Also occurs in the beta branch

 

[uçanbiblo]

Hello, they will donate troops to the garrisons to make them stronger and to be able to recruit new soldiers. Also, they will pay less to the garrisoned troops. Are they donating the troops to yours or their fiefs or just any settlement you enter?

 

[KingEroc1st]

there are 2 known reasons companions might be getting rid of troops.

one is been mentioned, they'll keep donating your troops to allied garrisons, the only way to stop it is with a mod, or not give companions troops

the other is when the companions party fights enemies with prisoners, they'll hire all of them as soldiers, which might push their party of the limit and a couple of days later some troops dessert.

 

[Antoine42]

No, they are doing this to towns I do not own, if I could get the troops back this wouldn't be so much of a problem. And they're not particularly smart about it either, they donate troops to capital garrisons well over 350 men already. Or any fief of my faction I enter, really

I tend to use parties and armies alot, I never noticed them doing that in my previous campaings.

the other is when the companions party fights enemies with prisoners, they'll hire all of them as soldiers, which might push their party of the limit and a couple of days later some troops dessert.

This is the pain. But they know about it, it's on the list, maybe a fix soon

 

[uçanbiblo]

Can you please share a save file where we can further inspect the issue? You can upload the file to http://upload.taleworlds.com:8080/ address. Please paste the link to this thread as description so i can identify the file.

 

[xRePeNTaNCe]

Rough, probably explains why my companions keep dumping their army thanks. I kept thinking they just auto resolved poorly repeatedly.

 

[Doofus]

Whether you have your own faction or are allied with another one, companions will donate to the garrison of any castle/town they are allied with. Not sure how regular it is. I assumed it is supposed to work that way although, yes, I wish they wouldn't unless they are already over their troop max (post-battle, outside a town, as an example).

 

[KingEroc1st]

Also i noticed in the last few days, my companion's party hasn't been to a town in a while and is dragging around 50 prisoners, and she's slowly hiring them as they become available to turn into troops. didn't noticed this before since they usually dump all prisoners every time they hit a town, but this time my wife has been loafing around for weeks and i caught her exchanging elite cataphracts for looters.

 

[KingEroc1st]

Whether you have your own faction or are allied with another one, companions will donate to the garrison of any castle/town they are allied with. Not sure how regular it is. I assumed it is supposed to work that way although, yes, I wish they wouldn't unless they are already over their troop max (post-battle, outside a town, as an example).

this happens 100% of time, based on the settlement's garrison. if they have nothing, your companion will dump half their troops, if they have 100+ in garrison your companion might just donate 0-3, yes you might roll a lucky rng and get 0. but to prevent this, there's a mod that has worked since the beginning. disable companion donations. it's beautiful.

 

[uçanbiblo]

Also i noticed in the last few days, my companion's party hasn't been to a town in a while and is dragging around 50 prisoners, and she's slowly hiring them as they become available to turn into troops. didn't noticed this before since they usually dump all prisoners every time they hit a town, but this time my wife has been loafing around for weeks and i caught her exchanging elite cataphracts for looters.

Since the OP not responding, can you please share your save file?

Can you please share a save file where we can further inspect the issue? You can upload the file to http://upload.taleworlds.com:8080/ address. Please paste the link to this thread as description so i can identify the file.

 

[KingEroc1st]

Since the OP not responding, can you please share your save file?

ok, most of my saves are modded but i'll try to replicate it on an unmodded save file.

Edit:
So I just updated my game to 1.5.3 last night, on an unmodded save i was able to replicate party recruiting enemy prisoner after the fight over limit. but i wasn't able to get my companions to recruit their prisoners over the limit. uploaded 2 save files with description one before and one after the fight against enemies holding prisoners.

 

[Antoine42]

All my saves got screwed by today's update, can't load anything to check wich one it was.

Also got a parties mod that fixes this so not happening anymore now, and I fear I won't build a game up to the point of having another party with me vanilla anytime soon, sorry

Shouldn't be that hard to replicate, since several people are having this issue.