Board Thread:Suggestions forum/@comment-26274215-20160628105745/@comment-26172435-20160702180821

To keep it simple, I'd just assume the one-off hiring costs cover for all expenses. There have been suggestions on paying your troops as well, which would be a different approach to upkeep costs. I don't see any added value in having it all. You pay a one-off charge to hire them and then provide for their maintenance by supplying them with food (and eventually some materials, dependent on the nature of the troops). That should do to achieve the objectives you brought forward without being too much of a burden for players and with a limited effort for coding. But that's just my view on it.