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Why don't nobles come with their levies anymore?
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They probably all hold council positions and have been forbidden from going to war by their lieges.
It's annoying me as well, you have to manually assign leaders to every single army..
Not the case. They'll load into individual levies, but when combine them into one army there are usually no default leaders. I think this is an error with certain government types or crown levels. Not totally sure.
And that's quite realistic. Only the direct vassal would have the obligation to serve personally, those below would be up to him, as long as he provided an adequate number of levies.
But unled armies are a real pain when there are leaders available.
What's the most annoying though is leaders changing between march and battle or when unloading ships or in other such "on-the-fly" situations, or when you join an ally or someone who just happens to be on the same side (e.g. because you share an enemy or are both allies of the same principal belligerent). I sometimes spend time hand-picking the leaders at the expense of not having them available with some other army and then they're still in the army but somehow are not leading.
Autonomous Vassals don't allow you to pick. This ends up meaning that when you get an unled levy unit (which somehow seems the norm), you still can't put your courtier in command of it. In one of my last games (France, about 170 holdings total) situation seemed to improve when I moved to Limited.
Usually the only way you get to autonomous vassals is by losing multiple wars against vassals; Only a few realms starts that way. When you form them together, the default leaders are chosen in some peculiar way, and this should happen no matter what CA you have. Especially should this happen when you have autonomous vassals, otherwise things start getting hairy.
It might be because higher than autonomous vassals allows you to pick leaders, and the devs thought it would be more intuitive to remove the auto-assign leadership, so that players know the ability to assign leaders with Low and greater CA is an option. But this doesn't happen all the time. I still have a lot of problems where the King keeps jumping into the stack for some reason, and gets himself killed.