Ok guys, gonna start a bran new game. What you would advice to research in the early game, let's say for the 6/7 months from the start? And how the heck i get the dog bomb squad?
I think you researched the right things. Grog and chateau make you money, armors keep your gals from dying. Car thieves gives you access to the aircar and the air speeder. These are the first vessels you can get that can carry a weapon. Once you have an air weapon, you can shoot down civilian ships and get extra money that way. Then build more bases to increase your radar coverage. More radar -> more detected ships -> more missions -> more money. Extra bases you can fill with plantations to make money. Build a new base at the start of a month and build a burrow instantly so you can put some defenders in the base. Enemies decide at the start of a month if they want to attack a base, so only bases that exist at the start of a month will get targeted.
Once you get chateau, hire more runts to make more money. That money allows you to hire more brainers to speed up research. Try to get three extractors and a workshop in your base, and fill them all with runts. 100 runts making wine gives you ~3.5 mil per month.
Try to avoid spending money on weapons. The weapons you find should be enough to win battles. I saw you bought laslock pistols, that is money better spent elsewhere. Personally, I like the double barrel shotgun. It's cheap but still powerful. You can give it a try and see if you like the results. Heavy shotguns also work well.
You can make more money from battles by stunning and not killing. Then you sell the captured guys. The handle works well, as do shotguns with rubber bullets. First the domestic shotgun, then police shotgun. The cattle prod can stun even armored enemies. Battles are more difficult that way, but you get more money. Do a middle click on enemies to see their weapons. Harmless ones you can try to take alive.
The bounty prize "confederate gear" is really good. It gives you the heavy pistol and the electric lasso. The lasso helps a lot with capture and is also useful for armored enemies. Its good to research the bounty hunting early as more missons -> more money.
At the start of the game, you can sell the corridor and all the hellerium to have a bit more cash. Try to get at least one more brainer early to speed up research. Keep in mind that you get some extra cash from your score (333 per 1 point of score), so it's not that bad that in the base information your expenses are higher than your income. Again, more missions -> more money.
Dog bomb squad: you buy dogs and put armed explosives in their inventory. Crates of violence are probably best for that. Then you suicide them towards the enemy. They drop their bombs on the ground when they die. Advanced tactic is to first send one in without explosives to eat the reaction shots. The one with explosives then can get closer to deliver the payload.
This is probably the cheapest way to defend a hideout and not loose girls, but you kill a lot of dogs doing this.
