Unofficial Skyrim Special Edition Patch

Fix here. Archive contains both a save file & the fix.

https://afktrack.afkmods.com/index.php?a=issues&i=28956

That's annoying. I was hoping we took care of those in the last update (see ticket linked above).

When I was investigating the issue brought up during the last update cycle, I did notice the missing enable parents settings on the commanders. While I'm not completely certain on this, I think they get enabled and disabled by a quest-controlled marker tied to the civil war master quest. For whatever reason, setting enable parents directly on the NPC references had no effect when I tried that to fix the previous issue. It's also entirely possible I don't understand how they're supposed to work and I was doing something wrong. Arthmoor apparently fixed something else in 4.2.3. Just thought I'd mention these things in case it would be helpful. Hopefully your fixes will solve it this time.

As far as the commanders being cut content - they were definitely going to play more of a role in the civil war, but Bethesda significantly cut the questline back prior to release. Some of the commanders still play a minor role in taking back holds during the war. It just depends on who you side with and which choices you make when (or if) you make negotiations during the Greybeard's peace council. For the most part, though, they just stand around at hold capitals or wilderness civil war camps doing nothing.

Setting these guys to use an enable marker is not the correct fix for this. The reason this wasn't working correctly was due to an undocumented change to the CWMissionGeneratorTriggerScript which controls whether or not to enable these guys. That was fixed in USSEP 4.2.3, and verified by both the OP and Pete as having been corrected with the fixed script.

We've fallen into this trap once before where we go off and set the enable parents only to have that not work later on, along with throwing errors in the log because of settings changes that shouldn't have been done.

So I don't think this is going to get included because it will only cause problems. You guys are going to need to validate for certain that the script fix last time around isn't cutting it, because as far as I can see it does.

Well, it did fix the problem for me at the Stormcloak Winterhold camp with Kai Wet-Pommel when I tested it months back for you. No idea on the commanders at the other camps. I've been meaning to do a full playthrough with SSE for several years but still haven't gotten around to it yet.

Then I'd say since the last script correction was done and appears to have this working correctly now, we're not going to change it again and end up with something down the road that stops working.