u/KorobeaS

I've been trying my hand on the L difficulty a bit lately with mighty Kemmler in Warhammer 2 and his undead buddy Krell. Last time, it went a bit awry, when my trusty military ally, the Duke, got tired of Bretonia and went on an adventure towards the doughnut all by his lonesome! You'll never guess what happened next! All of the helfs went to war on us and the cherry on top, even melekith piled on for that extra spicy flavour of ''fuck your campaign''. Next turn 10 ships of previously idle armies are on their way. Savefile deleted, next try. This time, Duke got beat up bad by any and all that bordered him, until he was forced to be vassalized by yours truly. I thought, ''now he cant be a moronic buffoon and go sailing to our doom without my say so. This time will sure be different!''. I was dragged into war with that psycho lady of Cothique but that's just one offshore nation so who cares. I eventually dropped the vassalhood and then confederated with Mousilon. Not much time passes, Thrace joins in the war. Then Yvvrase or whatever their name is. Mind you, all have the Guardian trait, but they are non stop attacking my offshore land even thought i never stepped foot on theirs! I've been in this stalemate for over 10 turns, i don't want to go and raze every single one them, because i know ill have to deal with the rest of those stupid looking, hoity toity, goody marry sues that will just unite against me and cost me 50 rounds of pointless slaughtering, bringing me further away from the short campaign victory that i am going for. But they keep on bringing more and more armies with better units every time. When 2 necromancers with 8 level skellies wont do the trick, i will have to backtrack and that's shitty. THEY EVEN HAVE DIPLOMATIC in their card! I have been trying to negotiate peace with them, offering up to 10k hard earned gold, i even proposed to join a war against their enemies, that they now don't have, but they refuse categorically, even when i decimate their armies, they build up again and again, all for the sake of just throwing armies at my wall to no end. I sometimes think that's its good money income, beating them for free with the help of my garrison, but, if i ever get free of this war, i have 5 stacks ready to roll on to short campaign victory in 20 or so turns. But this stale mate is crippling. Is it time to restart and try to never discover the helfs or i need to push on and just let them come, leave some skellie stacks and move on to conquest with Kemmler ?I have four stakcs parked at the shore bordering them, only Kemmler's stack is free to move. I went on a skirmish against ze Lady last turn, shacking her for 4.6k, maybe going on a solo adventure isn't such a bad idea after all. I am not playing the cheese way of blobbing, but i am having great results playing manually, to the point i can take 3 full stacks of armies with my one and come out with a close victory! But to conquer and hold those lands to the south ill need more armies and better income for the supply to support another lord. Taking him far away from my home feels like an invitation to the idle up till now Karl to invade me. I need some ideas! For now, i am non stop recruiting level 8 skellies with my n2 necro in mousilon. I feel like i am at a wits end! Help an evil necromancer out! I have to make them pay!