I have started a very hard campaign as Kamakura Minamoto. It was going pretty well at first, I expanded eastward to Hitachi and was just starting a war with the Fujiwara, which was fine, nothing I couldn't handle. However, out of the blue both Taira clans, one of the Kyushu clans (with allegiance to Minamoto!) and another western clan declare war on me.
Since then a few other clans have joined the war. I'm stuck with half my army running back and forth along my coast fighting off landing forces, and the other one outnumbered fighting massive Fujiwara stacks coming from the North. Now my provinces are swimming in enemy agents (and since the patch it now costs 2000-3000 to kill an enemy agent?) and my coasts are swarming with enemy fleets, including one or two 10 stacks, although luckily I have enough tax infrastructure to give me some disposable income. My border with Fujiwara is so long (They control Kozuka and Shimotsuke) that whenever I try to counter attack and take a province they just send an army down somewhere else (There are two of them against one of me).
If I felt like I could make progress this level of difficulty would be fine, but at the moment I feel like there is no way out. Most of the clans wont accept peace because I'm no threat to them and when I gain peace with one of the Fujiwaras they just break the treaty 3 turns later, and I am finding it impossible to capture any provinces.
I understand that very hard is meant to be, well, very hard, but at the moment I feel like I'm just trying to keep my head above the water with no way out, which isn't fun. I could easily beat the Fujiwara if it weren't for all these other clans declaring war on me, and I don't see why they do. They shouldn't have any strategic interest in my provinces, and I'm not even the most powerful can. My assumption is that on higher difficulties if a clan wants to expand and they have no adjacent enemies they go to war with the player. This seems to be the only plausible answer.
Alternatively it might be due to some sort of difference between RotS and normal Shogun 2. I've won with Hojo on very hard and they have a similar position to Kamakura Minamoto. During that campaign I didn't have any issues with far away clans all dying to invade me. Maybe AI in RotS run out of enemies faster? Or perhaps I need to expand slower than normal, focusing instead on converting clans to my allegiance?
So yeah, if you know why the AI are all being such bullies towards me, and what I can do to stop it, I would be forever in your debt.
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