Board Thread:The Last Sovereign Discussion/@comment-27713488-20170401033120/@comment-33159082-20170928105135

Optimal discretionary spending (for ideal minmax playthrough):

First of all you need to meet certain requirements. You need to have saved Carina's soldiers, by hiring mercenaries (Iron Cudgel obviously). You need to get to an army size over 200 without having to spend funding on countrywide merc regulation. To achieve that you must have optimized all army increasing options available (this includes having the enemies clustered during Yhilin war and get the enemy forces down to 29). You really need to max all !!! Missing just one +1 army size would put you at 199 army size before 3rd Arclent war.

Furthermore you also amplified the rift in the mine and had it flooded with demons. Also after the Yhilin battle you need to be able to get to 0 chaos, 0 collateral damage without having to spend any discretionary funding. You need to get to 25 victory points with just one double campaign (20% funding).

So in total we have 450% funding available. This is spend ideally roughly in this order, to get all possible boni from the fundings during Aram border incident:

1st Round: Double campaign 20% / Seize Mine 25% / 2nd House of Petition 25% = 70% spend in total

2nd Round: Infrastructure 100%  / Merc regulation cities 20% = 190%

3rd Round: Aram border 50% / Succubi guild fees 20%  / DK Statue 10%  /  Fancy Walk 10% / Succubi brothels 10% = 290%

4th Round: Succubi trade 50% / Magic standardization 10% = 350%

5th Round: Succubi Immigration 25% / Aid station 25% / Elven region improvement 50% = 450% funding was spend and 0% left.

In the end everything was funded besides Ardoheim border (which you don't need at all in this scenario) and mercenary countrywide regulation (which you don't need anymore to get over 200 army size).