Hi, I'm in express, I have about a $1billion of food to sell, and 2 billion cash on hand. We have 12 hours remaining till reset. I'm a cashier.
When would you begin to buy military? What prices dictate which troops to buy first? I'f selling excess tech off for more military how much do I have to sell the tech at to be worth it.

if techsales bring more money than 1 turn losses if neg income then sell.

unless you have alot land you'll have difficulties to spend all money gotten from stocks.

buy troops 1st, then turrets then jets and tanks.

when destocking how far out from end of set would you start, and how do you deal with expenses. when buying mil units?

you deal with expenses not spending single turn.

How many days remaining in the set is the last turn played?

I think the specific answer depends on individual playing style and timing the jump and that is driven by the market conditions? So maybe the answer is along the lines of 'if you haven't destocked/bought by X days remaining you'll generally find that you're scraping rock bottom prices on the destock.

My standard disclaimer; not sure I know enough about game mechanics to ask the right question.

after last turn given if you have so much oil that you can convert it to so much pm units that you can spend tens of billions of cash or so low stocks that you can't buy your pm out.

In express how many hrs. are left when last turn taken ...on average?

And like wise for others if somebody wouldn't mind, thanks.

that depends amount of oil player has and stocks. with oil jump its after last turn gotten.

Stupid question but how come every country don't convert to Theo when they destock? It seems like you'd see a lot more theos sets end.

cause if they sell bushels in priv market they get less money than non theos and also converting costs can be very high.

I meant after they sell food...so basically if you don't switch to Theo after selling food, you just max out military tech with current Government and buy off private or pub.... Instead of switching?

if has 200 billion cash in hand and switches govt its atleast 14% (likely way more) loss to money etc. in end of set usually private is cheaper (with max mil tech) than public so 1st is priv bought empty and then oil spent to get priv units and then if money left then buy whatever is left on public.