Ok, now this makes things awesome!!! I run MIV with all 3 of its submods. Great Wars, Border Conflicts, and Warden Contracts. Use all the rules of MIV and it's submods but these. Turn off MIV aggressive AI, turn on MIV Greatwars, leave MIV Sandbox mode off. Put Skalla's mod after MIV. Might not make a difference, but it's working awesome like this. Now you are using the Skalla AI with MIV. You don't miss any features not using MIV AI, just the buffs, skallas makes it tougher. Way tougher. With MIV AI you could still separate armies to destroy a larger opponent. With skalla, the other armies will follow and blob with the lesser army you just defeated on its retreat. I got killed in my first year trying to free myself from Suzerian Mercia, playing from Eastseaxe 769 start. A play through I've done many times and controlled most of England usually inside of 30 or so years. The difficulty factor is turned up in a very good way. Best of luck!!!!!