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Barbat's guide of limited value or things i know now i wish i knew then

 This guide is just my thoughts after playing for a few months and maybe helping people just starting get a better start than i did. Things can and will go bad all you can do is stop that from happening as often as possible. The best way to do this is to have a scout and medic in your squad. If you have not done so I recommand recuirting a first aid ganger. You want a first aid guy in all your scouts. It is easy if you just have him drive.

 If I was starting off today as my first day. I had 50k and a few gangers. I would get a first aid ganger if i didn't already have one. I would buy a Mercenary. Mooses are popular as well. Put 2 medium machine guns on it. 3 reloads, load up with B type armor this is my scout car. On group scouts in Sommerset when it comes to the loot screen i am looking for two cars (outside of rares). First a phoenix. Stick a first aid ganger in there make sure it has a 4 liter engine give it a big fuel tank. You can run back and forth from Elms or try to make it around the world. The second car i am looking for is a Windsor II. I like putting a couple gattling guns on the front and using them in scouts. Unless you got lucky and a rare chasis shows up the rest is just getting sold to Jakes. 

  Keep in mind that your Moose, Mercenary, Windsor II is just as tough/vunerable as the AI cars. Your gangers may or may not be better than the guys you are fighting. You need to take advantage of the map espcially if your outnumbered. 4 mooses vs 8 random AI cars is going to be ugly on some maps moreso than others. Ideally you would like a choke point and form a line on higher ground and shot the AI as they come thru 1 by 1 leaving a pile of demoralised cars to loot at the end of the scout. Be aware of line of sight of yourself, your squadmates, and the AI cars. Demoralised cars will still shot you if you give them the oppurtunity. The best way to do that is ignore them. Nothing says newb like sitting in a line getting nailed turn after turn by the Mutant Marader that demoralised 5 turns ago either red the guy or get out of his line of sight. Getting out of his line of sight is preferred but killing the car occupants can be easier. Ask whoever is running the scout. You should notice the guy coming so do something about it before it becomes an issue. If your getting shot at by 3 or more cars you need to do something about this quick. There are too many variables to go into here but ask for help, and ask for advice. Pay attention to your armor losses. Protect your weakened sides. Maintain your line of sight. This can be alot harder to do if your getting pounded with rockets. If you have the handbrake on take it off that will cause alot of bouncing. If your going backwards try to keep your steering wheel as straight as possible. Take notice perferrably ahead of time if there is going to be something blocking your line of sight to your target. Shooting a hill or ledge is not going to get the chicks. 

 That first aid guy you put in a 4 liter phoenix keep him travelling just between Elmsfield and Somerset if you want to play it safe. He will get his weekly training in first aid and be learning scouting and driving by travelling.You may lose some when your learning your way its ok you can have more than 1 ganger travelling at a time and you are bound to loot more in scouts just keep at it. Once he is over 70 in scouting he becomes a very vaulable asset to have in Somerset. With his first aid training and scouting ability you can put him in a car with a couple gunners and you should get a "fair" fight on the scout and if things go bad hopefully he can keep your gangers alive. I like travelling between Sommerset and Elmsfield because I can run travels before i go to work and then run them again when i come home.

  When the scout is over your gangers will get some increased stats. The highest mechanic should get a little boost, the highest leadership and hopefully your driver/scout got a little, your gunners got a little and everyone got a little more courage. Getting a guy with 100 leadership allows you to take motivator 1 which helps boost the weekly training. I kinda put my motivator on the shelf until i have a guy ready to replace him. You can also get a guy with recuriter with 100 leadership.

  Going on group scouts is my preferred activity in the game. Going on scouts by yourself will be frustrating at first. The first thing you before you leave the town gates is acceptable loses. If your not prepared for everything to go wrong don't do it. The more cars you take the more hectic it can become and easier it is to make mistakes. That being said 4 cars with focused fire is better than 2. What you can do to get a feel for it is take a couple mercenaries or mooses, have a 70+ scout and medic driving 1 car and whoever driving the 2nd car with 4 gunners that you can accept losing. A couple of apaches with dual heavy machine guns with a decent scout and gunners barring something going horribly wrong can complete the scout without either being breached you will usually get 2-3 cars (2 front mounted hmg is really all the weapons you need you want to keep the combat rating down, and you have room for 6 reloads which normally only come into play in a return). I am cross training my gunners. I want every one of them to get sniper and rapid reload. I have started using apaches with 2 front and 2 rear mounted gattling guns with 29 armor all around to train up the gunner skill. Be carefull if you used to gangers with skill with large guns it is going to take longer to demoralise cars with the gattling guns try to mix one in only when you feel safe doing it with large guns first.

  Don't be afraid to try different things. You don't need to listen to a single thing in this guide. You should never follow any guide blindly. Think about the why's. If it makes sense to you then try it. Remember the rule of acceptable losses. If you can not afford to lose that ganger or car then you should not have them go out. If you do that than you can have fun and learn things even when everything goes wrong and you just lost a nice car and 3 good gangers look on the bright side you only brought one car to the scout this time.

 I can't say your experience will be the same as mine. For me the game changed when I finally had some skilled scouts and some apaches. If I stick to the basics outside of a return encounter things normally go well. Have some fun.