5. Insurgents – how do they work?

Destroy camps via soldiers



Destroy camps via airstrikes + drones



Recurring Foreign Rival Event or Weapon Smuggling Event



Use a specific advisor (which is not great, so not really an option)

The insurgents obviously will take over zones. They will also make people feel endangered, increasing hostility in nearby zones, so best to try not to keep the insurgents adjacent to your starting areas, that you want to stabilise. The attacks are based on Capability and Camps. The more camps and the higher capability, the more often they will attack you and/or spawn from camps. By keeping insurgent capability low, they will be less aggressive. By destroying camps, they'll be forced to build them again to do anything. Airstrikes will cancel their attacks as well. How to keep the capability low you ask? Well you've got a few options:So pretty much the only real option in the beginning of the game, is dismantling camps, usually with soldiers. You can go two ways here:- use District Representatives and guess where camps are- use Regional Census (which costs money) but not guessI usually like the first option the most. I believe the Regional Census money could be spent elsewhere. It's a good initiative, but soldiers with intel gathering can do a better job. Guessing works even better if you know common camp spawns.When defeated, the insurgents will try to run away if they can. If they can, they usually will prioritise zones where they can survive better or do more damage. Usually it's something like this:Go to Insurgent Controlled or a Camp. If impossible, go to Unstable or a zone with Weak Accessibility (or weak roads). If impossible, go to a stable zone with the most population or the weakest road. If you have a stray spawn away from the main group(s), it's best to herd it back to the group instead of killing it (unless the path is blocked by garrisons. If there's 1/2 insurgents and there are security initiatives in the zone, let them deal with the insurgents (unless there are no valid places for camps to spawn.Camps won't spawn in stable zones. Consider bodyblocking with national soldiers zones that are surrounded with stable zones, to block camps from spawning there. Camps cannot spawn in zones with soldiers as well. By having 0 camps on the map and all unstable zones blocked by soldiers, nothing will spawn. Unless you get a 'desperate attack'. It triggeres when playing MegaBrutal and the total stability is high/insurgents can't spawn anywhere. It's just there to annoy you. Best case scenario they just spawn in their own zone/in the middle of your garrisons. Worst case scenario they appear in a zone with a lot of adjacent zones. You'll have to kill them because usually it spawns too many of them for security to deal with.