I like this as well. Someone can be paused for months before their account is finally deleted and the army reassigned.
There's another fix for this in the works related to how the game handles pausing (basically creating two different kinds of pausing to handle different situations) to help ameliorate this problem, but Indirik's point stands: Armies belong to the founder and unless the founder is
gone gone, they get to keep it.
I rather like the idea of Generals being able to send generated requests for reassignment of nobles. That still preserves the power of lords to refuse if they want, but in the 90% of cases where they want to help out it makes life easier.
