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afaik:
Originally
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VivaNick:
Its simple reason, military having awesome price during end of game.
that's not it, commies don't sell at the end of the game during destocking.. it more resellers selling then.
@jedioda, commie destock is powerful because your mil price is basically upkeep & food costs divided by production per turn... so an upkeep of say $15m and production of 200k jets = $75 jets. not bad when there's no govt switch required.
i don't think that's a very good example. You have to sell 15M dollars worth of jets just to take that turn, at $130/jet you're making 117, so to make 15M you need to sell 128k jets. So really you get 72K jets a turn, in turns of cost effectiveness that's 9.3M dollars worth of military per turn (priced at $130). This is also not counting what you are buying in food per turn (like 40-50k, probably).
When expenses are lower, commie is certainly stronger than other strats for stocking, which is why they place well in primary/express. Not so in alliance/ffa or so it seems to me.