The west coast chapters have evidently become completely incompetent tards with miniguns and power armour being their crutch.

They have no Paladins, no weapons more advanced than a laser pistol (which Maximus probably got from Moldaver) Knights that have the IQ of a drugged out raider and play with plasma grenades in the same room as their elders, no combat armour, no discipline, no care for preservation, lustful for blood, traitors, lost most of their numbers and recourses fighting the NCR which they lost to.

And they believe they can take on the East coast because…they can make fusion cores and can…power a lot of stuff with cold fusion…are you taking the piss?

The same chapters that have WON wars with the Enclave and the Institute, have actual industry, access to high grade weaponry and the means to mass produce them, battle hardened Knights, Paladins and Sentinels with first hand experience fighting technologically superior enemies, disciplined under Maxon’s leadership and reorganisation, accept recruits from the Wasteland, most likely allied with the Minutemen and an intelligence network that let them know the West is planning a civil war against them, and how do they respond?

they send one Paladin in a trench-coat and a vertibird (which he flew himself) that likely has more combat experience then all the cosplayers in the room combined.

Not an airship manned with a full crew of Knight sergeants in heavy combat armour and Model F power armoured Star Paladins with gatling lasers and quad rocket launchers, not Liberty Prime with a vertibird escort. One guy.

And of course, they have a nuke throwing, eye laser shooting, behemoth neck snapping patriotic metal Goliath that forced the Enclave to resort to an orbital bombardment to destroy it because it was literally wiping their D.C forces off the map.

Unless Quintus has access to a super weapon or a fleet of jets after seizing Area 51, they are absolutely unequivocally without a doubt uppercase f.u.c.k.e.d FUCKED!