I like how things can turn out with your small band of survivors. I have a gang of 8, I started with Eduardo and Cate who used to be a couple. Townsend is our army dude and the doc (can't remember her name) makes sure folk are ok. I took on four more survivors, Sean, Joe, Santi and another lass (can't remember her name either). Santi had some fighting nouse, and joe was a former mechanic. I made Eduardo our leader, he has a calming effect, (he was an undertaker before the apocalypse after all).
At one stage my entire crew were either tired and/or injured (took me AGES to upgrade Infirmary) so I
had to use Sean. I don't like Sean, he's a gormless looking pleb and he has no skills to speak of.
I ended up using him in the most risky of circumstances the thinking being, 'if he dies It's no big loss'. Unfortunately he's survived all of the various precarious situations I've put him through and has upgraded a few skills. I kinda respect him spitefully now even though his stories are so boring. He recently started arguing with Eduardo our camp leader so I might exile him if he starts up again, I may even execute him but the Santi dude never stops bitching about everything, decisions decisions. I've a couple of survivors nearby who really want to join and seem like they could be good editions, I think one was a former cop.
I stay away from using Eduardo, the guys just gotten better and I think we need our leader, Sean and Joe are my choices when going for a looting run and I've never let the doc leave as of yet, far too risky. I recently had to talk to other survivors who were hoarding guns and not trading, I asked them politely to and they laughed at me, Joe (me) and Cate executed 2 of their 3, third one put hands up and asked to not kill her, so I made her drop all her stuff and leave. Another set of survivors were arguing about one of their neighbours who makes too much noise. I could side with them or the neighbour who radio'd it in, in the first place. I sided against the noisy banana split so he had to move on.