Spellforce: Conquest of Eo is like Age of Wonders and Thea made a baby

Nope. They came to me. First was a necro guy who told me to stay way, which I did.
2nd was an orc guy who said something unfriendly to me (he was in my territory, and I do not know where his territory is), then promptly attacked one of my apprentice huts and took it over.

He then started raiding another hut over and over taking 10g and 10m every 3 or 4 turns). Then he claimed one of my nodes and attacked my main tower (even though I was not even at cold war status at this point). As I did defeat some of his armies, this only made him dislike me even more.

Then the necro guy, who I had not heard from in a good while suddenly declares wars and then started sending a bunch of armies into my area capturing stuff.

Now I have orc armies and undead armies causing all sorts of trouble.
I just fended off the 4th attack on my main tower which took 2 armies to take.

Maybe I should just start over. I do not feel like I can do much because of the constant attacks.

I am playing on Normal difficulty. Is that what everyone else is playing on? The default was one lower difficulty.