It is a necessary skill to counter the firms that use Item Isolation/Indep. Use it and request capital from your firms repeatedly, in order to spark groups (see the Groups section below to see which firms you need to request capital from), until you can request directly from groups (more money, quicker). Make Arrangements (Remaster: Under the Table) is the most useful skill, although expensive: it lowers the probability of firms leaving you when requesting capital (see the specific sparking conditions in the Trading Skills section). Then you could define your targets depending on the Skills and groups that you need or want (see the trading skills trigger conditions & Groups sections). Jungle Fever, Claudius) until you have a few Skills. Start with cheap companies, aiming at some from strong groups if possible (e.g. requesting millions when a few thousands only would suffice), because everything pretty much starts anew every round, and overkill is the fastest way to win. There is no catastrophic penalty for overkilling (i.e. Project with Make Arrangements/Under the Table). Concretely, you simply have to gather more money than your opponent to win the takeover, while being mindful of your opponents' skills (Entertainment/Hospitality, for example, can make you lose if you don't pay attention, even if you are ahead, and you must counter the enemy's Item Isolation/Indep.

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