Is there a mod that allows me to control Ally's armies?

[Ragingnorman]

Title.

I'm relatively new to the game, already tried Tutorial Ireland many times, managed to form the empire of Brittania, already feel confortable with many of the feudal mechanics, but there is one mechanic that seems impossible for me to comprehend: allied armies behaviour.

Last game I started as Count of Rouen, Old Gods bookmark, managed to achieve independance for the first time, conquered Brittany and Cornwall, formed the Kingdom of Normandy (yay!). Around 930, time to expand.

Formed alliances with HRE, Galicia, Italy and Wessex. West France's only ally was Mercia.

When the war started. Mercia moved it's 4.5k doomstack to Cornwall, I moved my troops to Rouen and waited for reinforcements from Wessex (around 2k), HRE was dealing with an eternal revolt war so I didn't expect help from them right now, Galicia moved it's army in little groups of 500 people (wtf?), Italy dropped out somehow (maybe non-agression pact with France, wasn't aware).

So I had 6k personal troops, 2k from Wessex and 2k from Galicia, hoping what the 12k troops from HRE would join me at some point. France had 6.5k troops + 4.5k from Mercia (who has away, trying to take Cornwall).

That's when the magic happen: Galicia starts running in circles, Wessex try to Leroy Jenkings it's way to a distant french county (thanks Kaling Bordergore) instead of following me, HRE never shows up, France got Asturias (who was defending against a huge Umayyad blob btw) as an ally and it's 4k doomstack came right at me flawlessly. Lost the war quickly, 500 gold debt, ragequit.

I like this game, I don't want it to be easy, I just want it to be FAIR. Depending on at least 2k gold on mercs to fight Karling Kings, because your allies refuse to cooperate while theirs even stop defending themselves to win a war for the Karling is not FAIR. It's such a trivial option (for singleplayer, at least), admit you failed with movement AI, allow the player to take control when he wants, in my case I would do it when it breaks immersion, I don't want to use cheats to solve this problem but I can't find any mod related to it (already googled), also I'm not familia with CK2 mod community.

Also, any tips to deal with AI troops and make them realize you exist and they should be following your doomstack, without mods, would be much apreciated, even if it's gamey.

 

[Strangedane]

I'm going to give you the answer you don't want to hear, to an answer you technically didn't ask.

Allies are NOT an advantage in 99% of all wars.
They are free warscore to be distributed in small amounts to the enemy.
Having allies are the easiest way to manually raise the difficulty of the game.

On-topic. A quick search of the mod (without really looking too deeply into it) Doesn't give me what you want, so I think you might be SooL.

 

[Ragingnorman]

I'm playing as Asturias now, the geographic position is optimal for calling in Aquitanie, France, Lotharingia, East Francia, Navarra and Italy as allies without them jumping in front of the Umayyad's 10k doomstack, it's so much easier when the only option AI has (besides going naval) is to follow you through a narrow passage, managed to conquer 60% of Hispania in just 40 years, which is sad after you realize that dealing with the Umayyad as Asturias was supposed to be harder than taking land from a single Karling King.

I'll just try to avoid Central Europe.

It's smarter to just make lots of non-aggression pacts (on kingdoms you are not planning to take land from obviously), so you have a higher chance to fight 1vs1 agains your target?