I have sent 3 armies with generals and 1 without a general. The first had a older general aged 51 or 52. When he died I figured just old age. The captain and army then deserted. I sent another general in his 30s and he died of natural causes and then the captain and army deserted next turn. Then I sent another army and general in his 20s and he died as well. Then two or three turns later the captian and remaining army also deserted. I then sent in a army with no general and it desrted about halfway to alguin. I can get a spy to Arguin no problem. Military forces however seemed doom to failure for some reason.

All the generals were loyal. In this campaign I'm not taking on any generals that have disloyalty traits. Also the deaths and desertions start 'after' I enter into the Arguin territory from the Timbuktu territory. This is really odd and has me baffled. Either I got a bugged game or there's something built into the game that prevents an army getting to Arguin before 'The World Is Round' episode, which I havent gotten to yet. I'm running the v1.1 patch but I dont know if thats a cause of the problem or not. This is the first campaign (Spanish) I bothered to try for Arguin.