Is there any reason troops refuse to follow a LD?

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I have a situation where my Van Hirdman refuse to group under an indie commander. He doesn't have any afflictions, and I checked his leadership, its 35...and says he can lead 35 normal troops when I right clicked it. They were perfectly happy to group up under a Vanjarl I had in the provence 2 turns ago. I just moved the Vanjarl back and tested it, and they will form up under him....just not this indie commander.

I just moved the indie to a different provence and none of the troops there would join under him.

He has 0 equipment, 1 star of experience, and is just a regular indie commander.

Anyone know what is going on? I did a search for a couple different keywords (trying to get something in the buglist..not reading 75 pages), but nothing came up.