Campaign Funding....

[Saleh]

Killing the NMs and the ki NM doesn't impact the stronghold. However, you can kill the campaign mobs even without a campaign battle of a beastman controlled area and it will have a strong impact on control. They repop fast killed so you might pull them to the side as a group kill them then make another pull. In the stronghold it takes 30 mobs killed to get them to retreat.

[Urthdigger]

Killing the NMs and the ki NM doesn't impact the stronghold. However, you can kill the campaign mobs even without a campaign battle of a beastman controlled area and it will have a strong impact on control. They repop fast killed so you might pull them to the side as a group kill them then make another pull. In the stronghold it takes 30 mobs killed to get them to retreat.

Actually, it does... or more precisely, turning in the boxes for the SCNM key items does! It removes stats from that beastmen's nation and adds them to the nation of the NPC. For example, turning in a bamboo grass basket to Kevan removes funding from the Yagudo and adds it to Bastok.

They were specifically asking about the nation's funding, not necessarily gaining control of an area.