Treacherous captains - over the top?

[Faenaris]

Losing a stack is indeed a pain in the backside, but as others have pointed out, it is realistic. Some factions were even known for it: if you look at Byzantium's history, you'd see that there was LOTS of civil war and betrayal. And in my Byzantium campaign, I have lost a couple of stacks.

Then again, when I played England, Denmark and Sicily, I NEVER lost a stack. As Spain, I lost one in about 200 turns. So, I don't think that the problem is that bad, Roy1991, but you are just having lots of rotten luck.

[Bullethead]

Losing a stack is indeed a pain in the backside, but as others have pointed out, it is realistic.

It would be more realistic if disbanded units turned bandit on you than for gainfully employed troops.

The VERY first time I tried to move some un-generaled units from City A to City B just 2 turns' march away, they rebelled where they ended the 1st turn's movement. So moving them around doesn't help

[Darius]

Maybe its just my bad luck but it seems its only the larger armies that go rebel, so when I want to send a non-general lead army anywhere I do it piece by piece, if they want to go rebel, they get killed by the swarm around them. Eat it.

[Von Nanega]

From what Ive noticed, in general the AI does not spend as much $$ on high leval troops and settlement upgrades. Viola! More money to bribe away your troops. For grins I tested by giving myself an insane amount of cash, and was able to bribe away other factions stacks.

[sapi]

I've never lost a stack to bribery but conversely i've never been able to bribe an enemy stack (though i've mostly been trying on papal troops that are besieging rome :P

[Sir Moody]

i have this problem too i cant leave any units alone without a general or they betray - and i found out why my current king (a lame excuse of royalty) has a influence of 1... basically everyone agrees he sucks at being king and so if left alone they switch sides ... hes 45 too so long wait till he drops off im kinda glad its a 0.5 time scale campaign as this period where im handicapped wont leave me with no turns left