The faction you could never handle

[Gilrandir]

In all my years of campaigning I have tried almost all factions in MTW proper and VI (not the Polish though, but they are on my to-do list one of these days). The only faction that I never could see through is Northumbrians. Started playing them 4 or 5 times - lost all of them. Sometimes the neighbors strangled me, other times neigbors and a civil war did me in; in my last campaign it was two civil wars combined with encroaching Saxons and Irish. The faction seems cursed.

Others are welcome to share their bitter experience and offer (and hope to get) advice on how to break the spell.