How to stop lords from taking over my siege?

[Vexxarion]

Is there a specific mod or setting to where they don't take over? Whenever they take over they just yolo into a 4 stack death trap of siege engines with a stupid battering ram.

[kristianjakob]

Provided you are a vassal then just break them up and integrate them into your own army.

[TruXurT]

Be a king.

[Teralitha]

If I see fellow faction armies coming to join my siege, I just end my siege and wait til they fail, then re-siege it myself. Its alot easier for me after the defenses are weakened.

[buttcheese34]

Originally posted by TruXurT:

Be a king.

i'm not a king and they aren't taking over my sieges, i'm not sure what the game takes into account for why they take over sometimes, maybe what tier clan you are vs what tier they are. plus if you're only a mercenary that probably makes them takeover your sieges too.

[Action Man]

The factors I have seen affect thus far:

Ruler - they always get control even if they're a single party.
Clan Tier - Higher Tier gets more preference.
Army Size - I have had an army leader from a lower tier clan take over my siege. Their army was about half again as big as mine.
Mercenaries are the lowest rung. They can start a siege with their individual party (they cannot make armies), so any actual member of the faction coming in should take control.

There may be others as well.

I've also had this lead to an infinite siege bug. During a siege, the ruler of the faction died, and the newly elected leader was a member in sieging army - not the leader of it. That army just sat at the siege for the entirely of the war. I could join the siege but not take over, and the AI never started the attack. I think this is because the game is confused. The ruler is technically there and should lead the siege, but they aren't the army commander, so the ruler cannot give the order to attack.

It's pretty hard to reproduce, having a faction leader die at just the wrong time and the chosen heir being in an army.