I'm pretty sure Fallen weren't the first and aren't the last to abuse this bug.
Yeah DRZ did this to us repeatedly last strat, where they would have members without the banner on attack their own fiefs and then you would see those same guys with the banner on a week later. They did far worse than that with nightitime settings where you couldn't even attack them, but chadz doesn't do shit to them, except what he should do - change the game so gaping hole glitches are not into effect, but when it comes to Fallen, who told him about this 1 month ago, he doesn't fix it, instead he goes ahead and kills a 1000 troops of theirs, which he hasn't done to any other faction because he doesn;t like the fallen members.
Biased bullshit raised to the level of hacking your own mod to fuck people over makes me lose all respect for him and I am like 50% sure I am headed toward star wars thats coming out, M&B 2 when that's finished, saint's row 3, eu3, native M&B warband and skyrim as all a lot more fun and reliable.