That's kinda what happened to me, I send my troops to help my allies, they get massacred no matter what I do and my allies surrender so I'm stuck there getting bits picked off me whenever the vikings get bored and send thier 10K stack 'O doom to take one of my counties. Best case scenario is that the French finally get some ships and send thier own death stacks against the vikings. I guess I dont know how to win wars with lesser armies.At first I thought that was a good thing, giving me time to build up, but without my help the Vikings quickly took over everyone but me, and it was touch-and-go until around the year 1000 when I finally managed to form the Kingdom of England.
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