Usually the ruler is the default leader of an army raised all within one province, but not always, and there isn't a clear reason as to why. Why is this a problem? Because it screws up the perks in the martial tree. Let's say I have "Living Off the Land" so I can start my army with 300 supply instead of 100. The ONLY way this kicks in from the start is when the ruler is the default leader of the army. I can pause the game, raise an army, and then swap the leader with myself and I do not get the 300 supply perk. I'd have to camp them out for a few years to get that far. When there's no mechanic (that I'm aware of) to ensure your ruler is automatically the leader of the raised army (or heck, another specific character if you'd prefer) then some of those martial perks become largely useless.
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Or have the ability to set multiple standard commanders which have a higher priority of being asigned when raising an army.
This problem has actually gotten worse with recent updates. It used to be that you could raise a small army elsewhere, assign the default commander to it, and generate a larger army with your ruler; or, if your ruler wasn't the no. 2 default commander, rinse and repeat until you got to that result.
Now, if I raise a small army, pop in the default commander I'm trying to get out of the way, and then raise a second army, somehow the default commander is reassigned to the larger army. It's like the opposite of a bugfix. They have eliminated the workaround.
There's no obvious reason why this is happening. My ruler has the highest martial score of all my available commanders, the highest prowess, the most commander traits, etc., and he's available. This game mechanic makes no sense and breaks immersion, but hey, at least there's no way around it.
Now, if I raise a small army, pop in the default commander I'm trying to get out of the way, and then raise a second army, somehow the default commander is reassigned to the larger army. It's like the opposite of a bugfix. They have eliminated the workaround.
There's no obvious reason why this is happening. My ruler has the highest martial score of all my available commanders, the highest prowess, the most commander traits, etc., and he's available. This game mechanic makes no sense and breaks immersion, but hey, at least there's no way around it.