Alien, a devastating meteor hits your country and it gets wiped out in its entirety
Just kidding, y'all ain't as*es!
Nutty, your troops have finished the battle with the nation and have suffered a lot of losses and you have lost 40 ships, 10 to sabotage by the enemy people while they were in port for repairs there and 30 to fighting with their fleet where they mainly got rammed.
MT, you cavalry have gone to the place where supposedly was civilization, and they found 10,000 troops equiped with flintnock muskets who were patroling their southern border, scouts detached from the group have found out that they are a small civilization nowhere near the power of yours but quite technologically advanced, your troops backed off before being spotted
Alien, the fee has been lowered but due to your peasants not having any actual money they still can't send their kids to school
Alright send 1 of my cavalry divisions west for reinforcements. Have them lead as the vanguard north, if any hostile contact is made with civilization further north along the highlands, have the cavalry quickly retreat behind the infantry.
And expand north from my eastern territory.
Half the fee to 2 gold and 5 silver.
Also I forgot the 3k cavalry xd