they are just leaving hteir armies on their home turf. they arent helping me!! i am their leader :(
there a way to give commands? or follow command they should follow you auto matically. this is lame i lost against low biudget nations because of this

There is a button by your army which makes allow attachments.
It's normally set to not allow

But normally my allies do stuff anyway. Join my battles if they can and is winnable
Conquer territories and do sieges... Most of the time.

At least in steam version. And when playing as Rome.