I tend to play Randy on Medium-Hard, there was a storyteller for VFE-Vikings I miss that would give you less negative events if you raided regularly so would see less raids, but if you turtled up you'd get more negative stuff, used it to force myself to regularly send caravans and I really like playing that way.

I'd play harder but I find it really annoying to get mechanoid raids when I'm barely preindustrial, my partner found a mod that limits the global tech level to match and I'm really tempted to start a new run with it. She tends to run with randy on losing is fun, she's much better at getting things going than I am.