Why does EVERYONE gank up on me?

[FireDogy]

This is my second TW2 attempt at the campaign, both times I've rolled with Tyrion. Around 40-50 turns in Caledor declares war on me, then two or three elven factions follow along, two vampire coast factions and 1-2 mercenary factions.

My biggest gripe is that ALL OF THEM do it at the same time, and I've absolutely no clue how to avoid this frustrating ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥.

Am I severely missing something? Or is there a mod to prevent ALL AI factions ganking up on the one ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ human player?

Thanks for listening to my rant & Really hoping you guys have some solutions <3

[Wobblyshrimp]

what difficulty are you playing on?

[Wobblyshrimp]

and do you have the sword of khaine when it happens?

[Muerte]

The game is more of a giant cheatfest against you on higher difficulty instead of providing actual AI.

[Dreagon]

In vortex Caledor is basically your first enemy after the dark elves. It possesses one of the buildings that gets you ritual resources. You should take it out pretty much as soon as you can. The other factions don't like you either and are being opportunistic because they think you're weak when fighting multiple enemies.

[Wobblyshrimp]

Originally posted by Wulfrik the Wanderer:

The game is more of a giant cheatfest against you on higher difficulty instead of providing actual AI.

pretty much this. If you are on a harder difficulty, the AI will hone in and try to destroy you if they feel you are weak. Also, if you want to be friendly with the other high elf factions, you should be declaring non aggression pacts and trade deals from turn 1. Keep an eye on the diplomacy thing that pops up when you hover over the green or red face next to a faction name. It will tell you all the things that you are doing and whether or not that particular faction likes it.

If you get the sword of khaine, keep in mind that the longer you have it, the less everyone else likes you. It can get to the point where the entire map basically declares war on you.

By 40-50 turns with Tyrion you should be raking in some serious cash and be a force to be reckoned with. Let the other factions try and destroy you but rekt them and put them in their place. Keep in mind where the factions are that declare war on you. If they are far away then it is not really an issue.

[Namhaid]

Aside from difficulty, are they just declaring war or are you getting a "united against us" message? If this is the case, then it's one (or more) of the factions you are at war with paying others to join said war, and, since the ai tends to pile up quite large sums of cash, it can easily get factions that shouldn't be joining (because of lore and/or diplomacy) to do so. If this is the case, there are mods that disable this or limit it to factions that make sense.

[Ben Argo]

Managing your diplomacy is key. You probably got declared on by Saphery, which is NE of your start and maybe Chrace.

Yvresse, to the East, usually confederated early due to the Sartossa faction to invading them.

If you confederate, you usually need to dismiss a bunch of armies that the AI built because they build extra armies, thanks to their AI bonuses. As a result, your military power seems to drop vs the amount of territory you control, so the other factions think "now is a good time to strike" and jump on you all at once.

Ignore Chrace. They're on the other side of a mountain range and have Norscans to deal with. They're not threat. Ellyrions should play nice, so get an early NAP and TA with them, maybe military access too. Same with Avelorn, Titanic, etc.

Saphery are annoying. I generally just invade them while playing nice with Caledor. Saphery often take the Shire of Isha, so you can hit them when they're weak to gain that settlement, then move up the inner circle until you're at the border with Avelorn.

The warring should be done with Tyrionsarmy and a half stack or full stack should be set to guard Eataine and Angerrial. Confederate Yvresse if you think you can defend it.