Quote Originally Posted by Dayve
Sometimes people want to expand historically, such as the example i gave earlier. If your faction is being continually attacked by a faction that your faction never really fought with or especially never conquered then if you're playing historically it puts you in an awkward situation.

Fighting 2 battles per turn sucks, for me it does anyway. I like a battle every couple of EB years, so 8 or 12 turns or so, unless i'm expanding then i expect it every turn, but when a faction i cannot expand into yet is sending 2 or 3 full stacks every turn i lose interest in battles and the campaign VERY rapidly, i imagine the OP is having the same problem too.
I understand... but RTW will rarely give you that priviledge.

thankfully the mods kinda solved that problem for those folks that play extreme roleplaying. But look at Zackafein's posts he is able to keep allies bordering him, I don't know what difficulty he plays. He told me gives $$ and land to his allies so they don't mess with him.... but I have yet to confirm that.