For what's coming, you're not going to survive individually even if by circumstance you're stuck being a Lone Wolf.

1.)You won't hold out at your 'retreat'-or your friend/family basement.

2.)Provided you survive first contact-at your home/retreat/whatever, can you load your bug-out vehicle? Can you trust your stuff already loaded inside?

3.)Okay, by some MIRACLE you outfought your assailants, you're in your bug-out vehicle... or sled or you're humping what you can carry to where you got your stashes... provided you weren't followed or someone with a metal detector got to them and got your goodies...

...now what?

Are you going to do a Rambo? Good luck with that. Ralph Bucky Phillips the New York State fugitive who gunned down some NY staties-how many did he take out? Only a few. What was the time period? Over a month if I recall. HE mostly hid and couldn't rely on the general good support of his hometown because the feds were all over them.

So you get a survival group going-but most folks who join are looking for a hand out. Just the way Americans are these days. To get you got to give and then you risk giving and then getting took. Americans...

But outside of generally poor characters of Americans a survival group needs food, shelter, munitions, intel. Food needs to be grown but with the government cracking down on Amish(?!)for raw milk and the contamination of GM seed open cultivation is problematical. Microplots scattered about help preserve some of your food but hungry scavangers will clean them out. Hydroponics, growing food indoors will require a building and power-where?!

Got a way to make fuel? Acquire/build weapons and munitions? Got connections on the inside?

So your group will wind up becoming predators and loot, or perish. You become predators with raids you better target stores that your supporting community doesn't rely on or you will lose support even from your own side and you will perish. This means an urban operation-getting in with a truck, rolling out before overwhelming opposition arrives, a midpoint hideout to QUICKLY transfer your loot into alternate vehicles... and can you do this without being surveilled all the way? Good luck.

Breacher's ideal of having a convenient/gas store is a good ideal, but you're still jurisdictionally flapping in the wind if The Day The Dollar Died scenario gets going.

Your best bet is to get support together, take over a small town or rural area politically-now. Don't advertise yourselves as either militia or survivalists; amplify local controversy and use Alinsky tactics to win local office. Have a full slate of candidates like the GI ticket in Athens TN in 46, clean out the trash, the bad law, see if the investments the city made can't be used to finance a mom and pop store mini revival to start up a local free economy... your group will have the resources and political backing of a town to draw upon.

Recall Election-doesn't sound so crazy now does it?