worlds without the borders

[alexti]

I'm having a difficulty playing on wrap-around maps, because it seems that no matter what I'm doing, at some stage I end up fighting with 3-4 races. On regular maps I would just put some forces on the border with 1 or 2 nations to discourage them from attacking, and concentrate on another opponent (preferrably one squeezed to the border of the map). But on wrap-around map I need to defend whole perimeter and I don't see how I can assemble enough forces to do and at the same time fight somebody. I'm sorely missing some kind of diplomacy.

Currently, I'm leaving some indies to keep sort of a border, but that works only in the beginning of the game. After that I just defend important provinces (big population, major sites etc) and concentrate my efforts to take such provinces away from the enemy. In other provinces the chaos rules, they're changing hands nearly every turn. This strategy works to some extent, but I was wondering if it's possible to proceed in more ordered manner.

/Alex