Quote Originally Posted by Obadiah
I don't want to have to do the math going through each of several (admittedly small) stacks and pricing out the cost of each unit type. This just seems silly and un-necessary.

I don't mean to suggest that the old province net profit approach was perfect, but it helped. And, frankly, as still pretty new to this "II" version, I am probably missing some of the usefullness of the budget screen.
I don't think most of us find it valuable to think of cost at this level of detail.

I generally make the best offensive troops available without regard to cost, and when I have a big enough stack go attack something.

Internal cities should have minimal garrisons, prefereably with free militia. Border cities need bigger garrisons.

The flaw in calculating a net by region is that one must allocate costs to a specifc province that are more of afunciton of the empire as a whole. The reason I can get by with a minimial garrison in Interior City A is because of that big expensive stack of troops sitting 3 regions away in City B. I need the combination of A and B to generate enough cash surplus if I'm going to afford a stack to take City C.