Start Your Empire
Begin building your crew, one member at a time. Muscle your way into the criminal world by hiring your first few members, then setup your operations and keep expanding.
With each new member you get, you set yourself up for a successful foothold by having them work the turf you take. Creating a gang presence in your neighborhoods that you control is the first step to letting people know who runs this city.
Criminal Fronts
Put those new recruits to work in various criminal operations you establish. Have a crew of drug dealers, pimps, weapons dealers, or a mix of everything. These fronts are your bread and butter to getting ahead of your rivals financially and strategically.
Each front allows for a certain type of presence throughout the city. Setup a drug front to have dealers on the corners of your turf, start a prostitution racket to fill the area with the ladies of the night, or setup an arms dealing front to have your best salesmen fill the alleyways to move the city’s best firearms at half the cost of the shops.
Gang Warfare
The bigger your crew gets, the bigger the target on your back gets too. Crews from all over the city will want to take a piece of what you have. Stock up on guns and ammo for your crew so they can defend themselves and your empire. Invest in some safehouses so you can stock up on back up in case things get out of hand in the neighborhood.
Hit back hard and heavy to do serious damage to your enemies. Once a crew is wiped out, only another can take their place. There is no coming back, same goes for your toughest members. Getting hit can deal a permanent blow, but the same can be said for the rival gangs in the city.