I heard that there would be more treaties in FE, so here is an idea of mine. ^^
I heard Frogboy say once that the AI could go to pre-war mode in relations. What if we could make a treaty that said: I'll pay you x gold per turn if you prepare arms to y kingdom/empire. This would allow a country to wage war through proxy. I don't think this would be a major strategy, but fun non te less. This would allow you to have a friend in a battle toward another stronger country. The gold needed per turn for this treaty should be calculated with a formulla that includes the relation between the threaty signers and the relation between the country asked and the country targeted. It would be more than logical that you prepare for war with a hated enemy. It would also be awesome to have a more straight forward treaty that asked a country to go to war for x gold per turn. I think that for this to be available the country asked and the country targeted should me mildly hostile, you would not attack a friend... Right?