I'll admit this is partially a rant post, but as someone who's played at least a bit of every Total War since Medieval II I've never seen campaign AI this aggressive at the default settings. Every faction I've tried playing as ends up with me being declared on by nearly every AI faction on my border almost immediately, and in my current Ramesses campaign by turn 10 I'm at war with 8 factions.
Am I just getting unlucky or has this been y'alls experience?
And yes, I know I can turn down the AI's aggressiveness, and if I start a new campaign I'm gonna be dropping it so I don't end up getting mauled right out the gate