actually, you can control where armies start to some extent. i'm guessing you've got a castle in an oddball place or something and it ends up being in the deployment zone of the attacker, yes? there are no flags or anything that you can set to designate starting positions, but if you understand how the game works castles, impassable zones, red zones and water, you can force certain things. play around with it some more or look at some other maps that do this.

K.