Rebel Army Stacks Not Appearing?

[Makanyane]

Alpaca could be right, I had something a bit similar so just tried a little experiment

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`
settlement
{
level large_town
region Caesaromagus_R

An odd ` at this point between settlements in rebel section caused all my rebel stacks to not appear, other symptom for this one is that the settlements below the level of the ` just come up as villages with no buildings:

Basically the rogue character stops the game reading descr_strat from that point down. Check your comments have got ; and not something else, thats the normal culprit.

EDIT: The more I think about this the more likely it seems to be that it is the problem, as i think some of the things you were suggesting to correct problem (rebel family trees etc.) would have been likely to give an error if the game was reading that far down descr_strat. Haven't tested if only specific misplaced symbols / letters give this problem, but '`' is easy to put in by accident instead of 'tab' try an edit, find, search for it as it shouldn't be in descr_strat except for accident..