Well, I picked the most violent childhood I could, then used the gang members and the founder to beat up a load of people to get martial arts skill up. When I got enough money (robbing corpses is surprisingly good) I bought some AK47s and started shooting people up (my leader already had one). I recruited a few people to make money, but quickly realised that the most profitable thing I could get them to do was "repair clothing" (there's currently a steady stream of smashed up and bloodied Death Squad Officer uniforms and a wide variety of other clothing). You can easily cover the costs of ammo by selling all the weapons and clothes you get (once cleaned and repaired by your little brainwashed army at home).
To get the CCS, I used the guy with high-ish seduction to get the required CCS kidnappee (interesting, didn't realise Mercenaries and Crackheads could be CCS members (although the fact that the crackhead had
21 wisdom was a bit of a giveaway). Then the actual CCS bases... were kindof easy. All my squad members already had army body gear and high rifle skill (the founder had 20) and could sometimes eliminate up to 4 people in one turn.
So... yeah. Now the CCS is broken I guess I just need to keep shooting stuff till I win.
Actually, there seems to be a glitch where death squads don't spawn in the Gentlemen's Club. Yeah, I'm probably the only player disappointed rather than relieved at this
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Oh, and for reference, this is what a town brought to its knees by terrorists looks like.
My first round of elections went well, although Free Speech was defeated for some reason. Hmm, which building can you attack to improve the Free Speech issue?