Why are my men the only ones dying and why doesn't the AI understand supply limits?

[Madman01]

Here we are, 1500 men (all levy troops) sitting in a neutral province (with a supply limit of 1500) waiting a few months to make a water crossing when some idiot in my clan (with his personal retinue) decides to ride up to the campfire and cross as well. This puts us well over the supply limit and attrition begins.....and the only men dying are mine. If he's a few men down when he enters the province, he'll soon be up to full strength again.....and my men continue to die.

Another scenario: I've got 1500 men besieging a castle in a province wth a supply limit of 3000. Another clan, which is also at war with the clan I'm attacking, decides to help me out and piles on with 3000 more troops (his are levy troops like mine, it's way too early for somebody to have a personal retinue that big). So again, we're well over the supply limit. And again, the dying begins....and my men are the only ones falling. The other clan isn't losing any (and sometimes gaining troops).

So, why are my men the only ones dying and why doesn't the AI understand supply limits?

 

[autumnTwilight]

Your men are not the only ones dying, but it appears that way because retinue reinforce and levy do not.

 

[Ritzzz]

I do agree with the OP. Very fustrating indeed when you start losing men over silly reasons like this.

On the other hand, it has forced me to plan my invasion routes better, taking into account of the supply limit in every province along the route and estimating where my vassal's troops will go.

 

[delra]

Vassals go all over in a very chaotic way creating a huge attrition-prone blob of an army out of their retinues that will constantly switch between assaulting border castles and going back to fight rebels and smaller enemy armies.

I'd much prefer to be able to control all this mess myself...

 

[Madman01]

Your men are not the only ones dying, but it appears that way because retinue reinforce and levy do not.

Thanks.