Army Level Command Range, and Odd Behavior

[DonGaron]

My usual MO is to set my Army level HQ to AI control, setting their objectives. But they will almost always immediately SM thousands of miles away, effectively putting them out of command/radio range. Has anyone else experienced this? How do I mitigate this?

 

[icedlemon]

well, i think this is one of the flaws of the AI controlled Army.. this thing annoys me too and so i tend to only use AI control in small scale war like invade yugoslavia as germany. i think there are somethings else you can do:
1. you can create smaller but more theaters, the AI will never send their troops outside the designed theater area.
2. use AI control at lower or higher level HQ, like armygroup or corps
3. design targets closer to each other
4. manually put troops garrison the important port or VP at the edge of a theater so the AI wont bother send their troops there.

hope these could help