Right then. Lets spend a supply improving our roads or something similar, it helps us fight and it helps the citizens trade and travel.
Lets spend the other on training the army.
+1
Also, send a secret emissary, to handle out some very favorable terms with the FSK, to get us involved in the war. Either some economic strongholds, or exclusive rights. Our dealings need to be somewhat severe enough that we will keep an edge over them. That way we can usurp them at some point / make them a puppet of ours.
Also, look into the cost of additional troops.
I don't think we should get directly involved yet, we still have no idea who is to the South of them and how they would view it, and frankly I would rather not end up repeating Louis XVI's screwup with the American Revolution.
If we must do something and they still lack a general, I say we lend them our general, along with a decent bodyguard, so he can gain some experience leading their force (and hopefully train us a second general). Plus, if they have a general of ours they'll presumably put less effort into finding their own, and thus be less likely to have one if and when we do try to assimilate them.Edit: Actually, that's a shitty plan. KK still have the greater army of the two, meaning they're likely to win a direct fight, so let's sent them a secret emissary saying we only established trade with the FSK because we were trying to establish trade routes with all our neighbours to fix up our own kingdom after the rebellion we had that we just put down, and that we sympathise with their own situation. Of course, given the fact that they have much less supplies and food than the FSK (in fact, going off our own rate of food income/expenditure, they probably can't feed their own city), they need to resolve this situation soon, before they run out of food, or the FSK train too much more of an army than them and attack. Offer to help with food and such in exchange for certain later benefits (massive trade concessions, a village of the FSK once recaptured, whatever we can get basically).
Try to phrase this such that they can't later say we gave any suggestion that open war was a good idea, we may be able to do a "we gave you food and supplies when you were starving and poor, and in return you used it for war! We can't tolerate this, we're going to need to liberate the shit out of you!" kind of thing. Failing that, hopefully we can get them to go back on our deal once they beat the FSK by not repaying us, which is also good justification for invasion.
Failing that too, if we do get them to pay us a village or the like, hopefully that will mean their food income (from two villages, if we get one) will not be sufficient for their city. And again, we will have them over a barrel!
As for additional troops, if I've interpreted the changes to our military stats correctly, we've already acquired a continous expense of 1 supply by going from "small" to "small-medium", I'd rather add supply to work on infrastructure for now, since that should give more supply via economy boosting and is hopefully not a long-term expense.
Wait, what? I said we shouldn't get involved with the FSK/KK war T.T
Damn.
Divide and conquer - in this case we did not even need the first step, on to the second. Basic strategy ;3.
If we had to get involved, a better strategy would have been to assist the KK first, but very well.
I like the idea of "Help the nation and it counts for tax."
Perhaps also use that for the lower classes?
Not sure what their current tax situation is like, but that seems fair.
Edit: Harbingerjm does bring up a good point. Lets look into their neighbours first. Also, we could just give them "supplies" at an extreme interest rate. The moment they stop paying, we just declare war on them and take it all. Would be my counter-proposal. Anyways, we need to gain some edge out of their war.
Well, the FSK are already rich, so that won't work, but it might work for the KK. Especially if that interest rate includes one of their villages.
Definitely agree this war is a big opportunity for us, and we need to exploit the fuck out of it. Carefully.