Hey. I'm having a lot of problems with my Stainless Steel singleplayer campaigns. I usually play on H/H and with Lusted AI.
In my first campaign as Denmark, Norway starts out with a much better castle than yours which can produce better heavy inf. This was fine at first since I was stomping them in Scandinavia anyway. However, going to the HRE or Poland for any alliances almost always resulted in failure. No matter what they refused to ally with me. Even if the offer was considered very generous. So of course I get a full HRE stack and a half at my capital after a few turns preparing to attack. Then an excommunication, then suddenly Norway is able to defeat my army simply because they would not rout no matter how many losses they took in the battle. So thanks to that, I lost my main army, and my Arhus garrison is basically just spammed spear militia against HRE heavy inf and knights so I figured this wasn't going anywhere.
Another time this happened with the Novgorod faction. I try and try to form alliances, no one takes them. And I get ganged up on by both the Cumans who have two full deathstacks coming into my settlements and the Kievan Rus who manage to take a settlement only with their general and a few mercs because generals are OP as hell still and my militias despite outnumbering him significantly could not kill him. I had lost three settlements by this point and now Lithuania was going to attack me. Needless to say I quit at this point.
You get the picture. What exactly is happening here? Every game I try ends this way with full stacks of spammed AI armies invading en masse and I can't get anyone to ally with me. Am I doing something wrong? Do I just have to be hyper aggressive and take all their stuff before they take my stuff and start cheesing the game? I really would rather not. This seems to happen with every game I'm playing with this mod and I have to say it's significantly damaging my enjoyment of the mod. It's a great mod, but it's not great when it seems no matter what I do, doomstacks will spam at me unless I simply go to war with everyone.
I wasn't getting any answers in the other thread so I figured I'd make my own.