Armies messed up during transition

[VladTepes]

I had five legate with three legions and one archer each. After transition one commander had four archers and another was empty. WTH?

 

[theadder]

They get moved around or substituted. It’s annoying.

 

[King of Prussia]

im not sure if there an order that units are tossed into commanders with others tossed into cities.

Personally i would prefer they kept the units(their replacements) in the commander if they are already in them, assign units to commanders based on proximity, then assign the rest to other commanders/settlements.

Alternatively, on the first turn of the age, let you instantly assign troops via the reinforce button to commanders. Fixing the commanders can be annoying to the point where you just buy the troops you need to fix them rather than wait 15 turns for them to get from homelands to dl or back.

 

[BarbarianHunter]

It is annoying, definitely annoying.

 

[stealth_nsk]

There are rules for keeping units on age transition. The game doesn't keep armies at all, it keeps commanders and it keep units up to the limit (commanders increase that limit). The units kept are first distributed between cities.

Also, some units classes are just not kept automatically.