The Dwarfs and Brettonia even have a grudging respect for the Empire, which can blossom into an alliance when Chaos attacks. They also don’t have a huge cultural axe to grind against them, unlike the Vampire Counts and Greenskins. Though their neighbours aren’t allied, they aren’t exactly hostile (save perhaps for Graf Todbringer in Middenland) and they’re mostly desperate to survive. The humans of the Empire might have the easiest start of any of the Total War factions.