Ya I was just picking the warlord campaign. I tried it with 3 different starting factions and still got the same result.

I had mods on my MTW in the past but deleted them with the uninstaller they came with. Im reinstalling everything again to check but when I installed the mod earlier everything was vanilla.

The only thing I can think of is that because I had mods on it, even tho I took them off my game would never be vanilla again unless I completely removed it? I duno