Well, at the stroke of 00:00 on day 6, the miners struck. This left me with fewer available funds than a Wall Street hedge fund, causing Shaman and Bizon to split.
To make matters worse, the dictator's minions attacked and captured the detour road sector from me, since I had no forces there whatever.
Thinking that it would be a cake walk to retake it, I sent one of my five-strong Merc squads to retake it. Unfortunately, it would seem that the dictator's forces weapons were upgraded recently, and I found myself out-gunned and out-numbered. Before I was able to successfully recapture the sector, I almost lost my namesake, "Slick" Wilhelm Clinton. He was actually dying and down to about 3 hp's before Dragon risked his life and managed to stop the bleeding, while under fire. Luckily, a few well-thrown grenades saved the day.
While this squad recovered in the Mines sector, I dispatched my other squad to the train station to bolster the remains of the defense unit I purchased, and which had been whittled down in numbers by a previous attack.
Meanwhile, the dictator's forces approached the dam. Assuming that my purchased defense force there could handle things, I watched as the dictator's forces promptly destroyed the dam's defenses and captured it.
Shortly thereafter, more dictator minions captured the completely undefended road block sector from me. Yes I know, I would've had a defense force there too, IF there were funds to do so. Alas, the cupboards are bare.
Thus, my currently situation finds me with a net daily profit of about 4K, but I'm not up to 15K yet to be able to purchase another defense force. When I logged off last night, my 5 merc squad guarding the train station is under attack and is fighting for it's life.
And all of this on the easy difficulty level!
Perhaps Shaman was right. "De spirits are not happy".
The only thing left to do now is lock-n-load and
, i put myself with 999.999 money, and i have now 20 squads of security in each map and the dictator can't outran them 
