Jan Zizka, Warrior of God, AI bugged(?)

[Resident NATO Freedom Enjoyer]

Afternoon. Was redoing all the scenarios on hard and noticed that the Ally you get from sending the hero to Prague will actually not recruit villagers or military units without player help. Blue, the ally you get from the side quest, started to have less and less units they were pushing out. I noticed this and decided to send them about 3k food. Immediately they began pumping out units exponentially quicker than they had been. They did not make any villagers however, and no amount of gold or wood or stone has changed that either. I assume this isn't intentional behavior since it feels like they were performing normally upon becoming my ally, but slowed down quite a bit for no apparent reason.

Not sure if this even is a bug or not, but could see them simply being allowed to make villagers a way to fix this. If I recall it's just a setting in the scenario editor for allowed units is it not?