A bunch of business owners in my territory have changed allegiance to another gang, and are laughing at me when I intimidate/extort them. Time to give them a good smacking around, right?

I have a squad especially for this kinda stuff. High intelligence, fists, stealth, all the good stuff. I set them to go assault the owner of a business and start the working week. The squad leaves my HQ, gets in the car, drives to the target building, walks in and....walks straight back out and go home. I get a message telling me their mission has failed. What gives?

I've never been able to assault business owners. Or kill them without bombing or torching their store. If there's a trick I don't know what it is, but I think that feature is just broken. The bast way to deal with hold-outs and squealers is to make lots of money and buy them out.

you must be more powerful than the guy who took your territory to have any chance to take it back. killing shop owners is fairly easy unless there are cops near by \. if your bombing a protected business that has cop's inside the bombs wont work unless you create a distraction. I've been playing this game since it came out. and just recently succeeded in robbing a bank and blowing a player controlled bank up. robbing wasn't hard just enough Hoods w/ shot guns

blowing up I set someone up to blow up the bank and another to torch or blow up a building either in the same square or right next to it the trick is to be were the cops cant see you have your hood blowing up the bank wait in front of the bank have the other blow up the other building. when the cops exit run that guy away from them and stay out of sight range the cops need to chase him . when the cops are a half a block away have the bomber continue you may want a shooter with you if your deep in enemy territory. also when an opponent purchases a Hotel or bank and it appears in the paper there will be no guards inside on the next week after that they will be guarded. first your squad would need intimidation fist and intelligence. second if the opponent has a higher overall power rating you can't get them back that used to frustrate me to. until I found out why. intimidating works occasionally on squealers. but most need to be killed. Killing is tougher in the city with a lot of Police patrols. if the owner runs a protected business send more than 1 or 2 hoods.