Can I stop (allied) armies from following me around?

[herm]

So, I noticed that allied and vassal armies now keep piling up on my armies. Thus not doing anything useful and increasing (causing) attrition.

 

[Gamerofthegame]

It is a feature of the patch, due January 20th with the DLC. (The DLC is not required for it.)

 

[roman566]

Keep the allied stack with 1k of your soldiers and let the rest of your troops leave.

 

[anubisfike]

Keeping a stack or two around with 1k men makes the AI much more likely to follow those around, leaving your main stack alone. This makes it very easy to direct your vassals or allies while simultaneously fighting with your main stack.

 

[Marchosias]

While I doubt you'd want to do this, your vassals and their armies won't stick to you so much if you let them grow large enough. When their armies reach a reasonable size, they tend to go off on their own a little more.

I'm quite certain Paradox has programmed vassal and ally armies to form on each other so they don't so easily get obliterated by enemy stacks.

 

[herm]

Keeping a stack or two around with 1k men makes the AI much more likely to follow those around, leaving your main stack alone. This makes it very easy to direct your vassals or allies while simultaneously fighting with your main stack.

Guess I'm alone in wanting my allies to do their own fighting and to be able to hang back and relax... I don't really enjoy the fighting part of wars (HoI is much better for that!).

 

[anubisfike]

Guess I'm alone in wanting my allies to do their own fighting and to be able to hang back and relax... I don't really enjoy the fighting part of wars (HoI is much better for that!).

No offense but what do you do in this game besides fight wars? I can see how it's convenient to have your vassals fight for you but that's only really possible if you have large vassals.

 

[herm]

No offense but what do you do in this game besides fight wars? I can see how it's convenient to have your vassals fight for you but that's only really possible if you have large vassals.

Well, what I mainly want is for them to siege some provinces while I try to take out the opposing army. Then I don't have to take attrition besieging or the risk that I don't notice the enemy trying to clear out my stacks of 2-3 thousand men.

 

[herm]

Reading the dev diaries of Art of War it seems like maybe this feature is removed. Is that correct?

Edit: Seems you can decide for your vassals how they will behave so what I would like to know then is if it works as advertised?