Some newbie like me could find this useful.

[Yvelina]

I apologize if this is something that everyone knows, and I am just wasting board space by posting it, but I ran into this problem in my game on Faerun, and got poor results from a few turns until Petar showed me this trick:

The Problem: You have many, many commanders in a castle. So many that they do not show up on the main screen, and you cannot select them. 'N' does not help, because they are busy Patrolloing or Researching, and are thus skipped. You want to have your whole force attack, not just the first twenty of them.

The Solution: Give moving orders to the ones that you can select normally. Press F1 to get to the province summary screen. Find the commanders that are listed as researching, patrolling, preaching, or hiding under the table so that they do not take part in the major attack. Switch them, still from the F1 screen, to defend. Close the screen, and use 'N' to select the now-available commanders, and tell them to get going.

Y.