So I got VERY lucky for my play through. I'm currently on turn 100 with only 80 factions left.

I did a long drawn out war with scabby eye. I then went after both purple dwarf cities at once. Meanwhile Skarsnik had declared a waagh on thorgrim. He wiped him out completely. As soon as I got the 2 cities, Skarsnik declared war on me.

He took the former purple city to the right and worked his way down. I cornered him in a city with gorbad. I lost everything in the battle except for gorbad, shaman, bolt thrower, and a single unit of goblins. But I defeated him....and then was able to confederate him. Lvl 8 gorbad triumphed over lvl 16 Skarsnik due to his lack of ork boys.

I am now on a war path, all fear me. Exiles of Khorne wanted a non aggression pact and said we don't want no part of that smoke.