"Dictator Do's and Don'ts" Topic

After reading Ifat's and Bongolesia's DRNSA, GRU, Bureau 13, UNCLE, THRUSH & CIA reports I kept thinking…

If you don't have enough Monkey Model MBT's, spread them out-2 per platoon matched with three APC/Lt.Tank variants(like the M113/60mm HVMS turreted afv). They'll keep those Recon , infatry and ATGM carriers away.

If you have a HUGE amount of obsolete afv's, turn them into apc's/wpn carriers, ambulances, arty tractors and supply vehicles.

Give your milita/tribesman Battle Rifles(SKS, M14, FN FAL, BM59 etc.)-meet with theier leaders, reward them for POW's, downed pilots and NOT shooting the annoying photojournalist.

Modern airforces are too expensive-invest in SAMs&AAA, they don't stop air attacks but they'll make them expensive. Use Gunships(helo-and Cargo) and Pucara-type attack aircraft-they can carry a lot, even 2 AA missiles to ruin their day…

Plant Depots and FARPs every where.

Have backup communications ready-even a WWI/phone&courier system is better than none at all.

Feed your people. If you are embargo'd, play the Plight of the Masses Card with the UN/allied SuperPower. Make sure everything you get can be used(tractor factories can make afv's).

Don't bother with nuke plants-go GeoThermal,. A actve volcano is great for this AND you can use it for loyalty tests, getting rid of evidence, bodies etc.

Keep your resource surveys secret. Every Imagination has ONE resource a SuperPower can't do without, play iyt for all it's worth but keep discoveries hidden as a trump card.

Forget female bodyguards, form women's militia groups to defend crucial villages/townships and throughfares. They'll be fanatic defending their home and it frees up men for your army.(DON"T arm children, ultimate bad press but have a Scout training org to prepare them when they come of age).

can't think..a little help?

And you should put Anti-Materiel Rifles or Six-Pac gatlings on those Camels.

Civilian cars should all have dual-purpose luggage/ski rack/roll bars for RPG's.(See? we're just a refugee column, we can't hurt your shiny apc's…come closer…closer…FIRST RANK FIRE!!!).

Don't forget to consult the Evil Overlord lists.
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That's the Core Curriculum. Looking for tactical ideas, operational technique and obtuse strategy.

Also, been wanting to set up two ImagiNations: one communist, one fascist, for SuperPowers to play off one another. Can't think of names yet.

That would be good for a beefed up Baja. Tempting, tho.

So far, maybe The Soviet Spuriosa Workers and Peasant Collective Paradise vs Der Grosse KrautBatenlande. The SWPCP Peoples' Leader would look like Janet Leigh from Jet Pilot

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A real Radical CzarinaFem. "The Quality of Quantity is there's a lot of it."

and the GKB's Direktor would be Gilbert Godfried..on steroids.

"Another UN Sanction…Why am I NOT suprised. Keep them coming, we're saving a mint on toilet paper."

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Never use Recoiless Rifles-they give away your position and get hot quickly which generates cook-offs.

Skippy

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checked both-they worked

Send in the Drones.

They do have expensive villas, appartments and chateaus in many places of France and Italy. Huge bank savings (often stolen from your government "help" UN money etc.)
They part own many businesses of our bankrupted socialist economies.
They give a lot of money to politicians and parties to keep things quiet and running.
they even sometimes do to the bankrupt press companies.
They have tons of shameless lawyers and clients who you would see at numerous good will events.
Overall, it seems to be a good way to go, better than in the 60s when it was a mite more dangerous.
As with all gangsters, they get to be "respectable" as long as they have power and money (see Ben THE Tunisian)