when an army attacks a city and draws in the surrounding armies this includes those which are ransacking near the city that is attacked. after the city battle is over those ransacking units drawn into the battle which survive NO LONGER are ransacking - I guess to indicate they have done someone else since the ransack order was given 


however EVERY SINGLE ONE of these armies can be reassigned to ransacking. less observant game players may not even notice the ransacks have stopped into well into the next game turn


to avoid the tedium of reassigning all these ransackers back to ransacking near the attacked city by default the game should never have stopped the ransacks and just vanish those units which did not survive the battle. at the very least the developers need to add a game switch for new games to allow ransacks to continue if the attacking former ransackers survive the battle