So many guys in your area not using the strategus clan banner - Hospitaller_Huseby with 998 troops, Hospitaller_Thugicus with 224 troops, Hospitaller_Paul_Bunyan with 100 troops, just off the top of my head outside a fief. You have been adding roughly 700-800 troops on average a day to your fiefs with your garrisons total at 31, 248 at the current moment. Your recruitment of troop rate is higher than both fimbrulvetyr and us combined. No need to hide you have been actively recruiting new members to the point you are the 2nd largest faction in terms of active members after ve, just now pushing past occitan.
Just carry the banner. You are not fooling anyone that you count on winning and succeeding by superior goon tactics - sheer massive numbers over tactics. We know we can only beat you if we do a better than 2:1 k/d (we come close but not quite). No one thinks of you as an underdog no matter how much aztec cries about how difficult it is to be in a faction with only slightly under 100 people, all people have to do is look at your fief garrisons.
Your main diplomat (Huseby) does not need to pretend he is not in your faction. He is a hospitaller and has the tag.