bandit empire

It would be great if developers add features allowing to play game as bandit leader or even bandit prince ? I imagine I am not the first with similar idea. To make it fun bandits could use bandit influence, but party limit should be reduced by about half (no fun in being bandit with 120...

TL;DR the bandits snowball into an empire with the greatest "baiting" tactic ever, killing the AI lord, my AI parties and everyting. making the game unplayable after 450+ days. I started the game with max difficulty settings, but ended up trying to setting them to easiest when trying to kill...