How To Use A Waaagh?

[Mr. Positivity]

Here's the context. I'm fighting a Dwarf subfaction, and I win enough battles to spawn a Waaagh. So the turn after it spawns I go and lay siege to a Dwarf city. I tell the Waaagh to make the city its target. It moves next to my main army when I end my turn.

Then when my turn comes around again I get a notification telling me that the Waaagh has no targets and disbands. I still have enough fighting level for it to exist. There's room next to me by the city for it to support me. Any idea why it keeps disappearing?

Thanks.

[in memoriam of Sharky]

I have played a full campaing with the Greenskins but I have never given any orders to Waagh armies.

You go attack the city with siege wait one turn than the waagh army fill follow you there so in the next turn you can attack with the support of the waagh army. They usually got destroyed by most of the "AI stacks" if you let them attack alone by your orders.

(Probably your waagh army got destroyed , waagh army won't disband if there is no target given you might misread the message)

[Booth]

I think that because you are already sieging the settlement the waagh army cant attack it and it doesnt seem to be intended for reinforcing your own armies in battle. I use waagh stacks to deal with enemy armies i dont have time to deal with myself or snipe undefended or poorly defended settlements, a waagh that takes a settlement will capture it for your faction.

[Teska_Grav]

Waaaghs are very fine and you can easily handle them. Even if you have more than one Whaaagh you can tell them to go to a near enemy and so on. Of course you have to check if they have a target (at best every turn), but even if they hadn't one they will come to the main army they belong to.

Be safe that your main army has enough "power" to "maintain" it Waaagh-Army, so it could happen that if you loose a battle and your "power-level" is under 75 (or 80 ? - depends on difficulty level I guess) it will be deleted.

So, if you want to have a Whaaagh-Army a very long time, the Main-Army has to be active
and look out for some action. If you are sieging a town, the Whaaagh will enter the battle. Even if you tell the Whaaaagh to siege a town it could happen that the Whaaagh is faster than you and then you aren't able to siege and you have to wait until the Whaaagh-Army decides to battle.

Very tricky sometimes, but it makes always fun :)

[Mr. Positivity]

Turns out I'm dumb. I had consolidated my army's units down a little since they were all battle damaged and went under 17 units. So the Waaagh disbanded. Problem solved. Thanks for everyone's input though.