See, that's the thing. A huge part of war games for me is controlling what generals control what armies.

Actually, I was wrong -- you can sort by skill and rank. What you CANNOT do is sort by skill WITHIN rank. I'm not sure what ordering system the game uses when you sort by one or the other, but it doesn't use (as a secondary ordering system) the other characteristic. And there is absolutely no way to sort by unique characteristics (What's the point of having all those leadership traits if you can't even orgaznie your generals according to them? You end up hunting and pecking through a huge list. And worst of all, you can only view around 5-6 of the generals on the list on your screen at any particular point in time!)