Main View | Strategy Omerta: CoG Guide

When you begin a mission, you'll see a view on the whole city and an interface consisting of several buttons - this is the main view of the game which you'll spend the most time with, slowly expanding your small empire. This is where you'll be sending orders to your henchmen, acquire new sites, get your businesses going and complete story objectives.

The "operations room" gives you a view on the situation in the city.

The most part of the screen is taken by a 3D area map. By pressing the left mouse button on individual buildings, you can display more details about them, and in most cases you'll also get the option to send a henchmen there to have them perform one of many available actions. You can view the details of such a maneuver (prices, individual member bonuses, predictable results) in a window which shows at the bottom of the screen.

Planning window - here's where you pick henchmen and confirm actions.

Displayed right above the information window are portraits of gangsters currently under your employment - in case you have an opening to hire another henchman, there will be a special icon to tell you about it. When you press Space, instead of a list of characters you'll get a list of locations you own and buildings earning your income. At the beginning of a mission it will usually be only a Hideout, but as the situation progresses, new buildings will become available: Speakeasies, Breweries or Distilleries, which will make the list a great help in navigating through your domain.

Available gangsters (and their maximum number). When you press Space, you'll see a list of buildings in your possession.

At the bottom of the screen, there is a bar which provides detailed information on the current mission. You can see how much money you have (both clean and dirty), what stored resources you posses (Beer, Liquor, Firearms) and your Liked, Feared and Heat ratings. By placing the mouse over individual icons, you can view the daily balance of your resources, which is extremely helpful if you're running a chain of Breweries and Speakeasies. The difference between clean and dirty money, and ways of obtaining them, will be described in the further part of the guide.

Status bar. From left: Clean and Dirty Money, Storage, Beer, Liquor, Firearms, Liked, Feared, Heat.

The upper left corner of the screen contains a minimap to help navigate through the area. The icons it displays help find the desirable spot very quickly. Keep in mind that:

• unvisited locations are marked with a cross
• locations on which you have clicked the mouse are marked as a dot
• locations in red mark the places you need to visit in order to complete a mission
• blue indicates both warehouses and neutral locations
• white marks your building sites and buildings on them
• green indicates informants and your Hideout

Minimap and icons: Gang Management, Jobs (3 new) and Fire Sale.

The last element of the interface is right below the minimap. Those are buttons: Gang Management, Jobs and Fire Sale, which let you do as follows: view the list of all currently available gangsters, trade and perform special assignments, quickly empty your warehouses (which is useful if you have a surplus of resources and no way to get rid of them).