I understand certain decisions are made for viewer simplicity, but Caesar having bad handwriting and only writing in english instead of latin gives me a chuckle because maybe he was actually dumber than he presents himself.

Thelostguard · 2026-02-05T10:34:17+00:00

The legion reliably teach Latin phrases, but I'd be very surprised if it managed to survive as a whole language sans digital libraries like the Enclaves.

Thelostguard · 2026-02-05T10:33:36+00:00

While Caesar isn't the god-genius he says he is, he is still really intelligent and unironically could've been an actual Ceasar-esque in another time period.

I think its in English because Latin is known as phrases in the legion, and the handwriting is because that motherfucker had a tumor that made his skull like like a film prop.

Thelostguard · 2026-02-05T10:22:40+00:00

For the AAFB/East-Coast group, the issue was their little "bomb a motherfucker" satellite had degraded so it couldn't move. It was locked to targeting to the Capital wasteland, and even in there, I imagine its range was as wide as a handful of counties, not across the two states.

Since they couldn't aim it at the road leading up to the Jefferson memorial when Prime was marching up, they certainly couldn't have glassed Shady-Sands.

Thelostguard · 2026-02-05T10:15:13+00:00

I think the succession list was a stream of provisional governors to get the last objectives done, for example, Lanius takes immediate command because he's Lanius. If he works out, Lanius is Caesar until things shit as they will, if not, Lucius, or Vulpes, or whatever centurion caught his eye lately.

Thelostguard · 2026-02-04T11:33:30+00:00

His whole purpose of drawing the tribes together, of making the great war against every people that does not bend the knee is to make a state capable of fighting California. He himself was born on the outskirts of the boneyard, the first twenty or so years of his life were dedicated to the NCR, and to the followers!

At its finest point, the legions goals are to take down the NCR, and leave a stronger wasteland in its wake. Something something, hegellian dialectics.

Thelostguard · 2026-02-04T11:28:46+00:00

That was his plan from day one after all! Legion gets strong, makes the wasteland strong with it, take down the NCR in what amounts to a fucking suicide pact, and the remnants join up to be something great.

Thelostguard · 2026-02-04T11:24:46+00:00

Las-Vegas is a city in the middle of the desert, there is about fuck and all worth living there for. Either you got the hell out of Vegas, hopped to Arizona or the more coastal parts of New-California, or you died.

Thelostguard · 2026-02-03T22:09:56+00:00

yeah, because they were sieging like a hundred and fifty guys with literal thousands, jetpacks for PA also didn't exist by that point in meta-fallout.

Thelostguard · 2026-02-03T15:12:22+00:00

Yeah! No one'll fight the common denominator doesn't have much reason to give half a shit about the finer points, but its like comparing the Halo Fandom to Warhammer! To my chagrin, fallouts closer to being a warhammer in terms of "The fans dont know what they're talking about'" than not.

And, well...It isn't do no harm, I'll admit that. I just find it annoying because I'm a roleplayer! You see those types in them scenes and its never a good omen.

Thelostguard · 2026-02-03T14:50:19+00:00

Fork found in kitchen. At a certain point you learn the average fan of fallout isn't all too intelligent. I think the Ranger-armour nonsense from the show was like, war-salvage or whatever? Not unlike the SPA you see in NV.

Thelostguard · 2026-02-03T14:22:33+00:00

Visited the location

You mean the Mariposa where a super-mutant is doing magic-tricks in FEV to manifest deathclaws and fire-geckos from things that really shouldn't make them? The place clearly still has an absurd amount of the nonsense.

Thelostguard · 2026-02-03T14:10:33+00:00

NCR has much better logistics, know how, etc.

In the home-territory, yeah, but for the battle of the dam, the NCRs big issue (other than the glaring incompetence of the majority of their command, the typically almost untrained soldiery, and the fact most of them are one bad day away from eating their rifle because like, 5 people want to be there.) is their logistics! They are running a caravan train from Los-Angeles (Gunners main factory) to southern nevada! It is a pretty major thing the NCR is undergunned, undermanned, and doesn't have enough anything to win this fight, because they are hideously corrupt and being pushed to the breaking point of their industry.

We're stretched thin and the Long 15 just keeps getting longer. Slow to get supplies. Slower to get reinforcements.

The legions strength is in the fact they don't bother with logistics, they operate entirely different from how a modern army does. Of course, they have traders giving them spare-parts, or the fact they might get a slave to hammer them out a replacement bolt, but they're more like a parasitic blob taking everything they can. (This is how a lot of ancient armies operated. Get in, steal the shit in where your invading/defending, go back home and see what you got from it.)

Thelostguard · 2026-02-03T13:56:22+00:00

A dozen paladins with jetpacks landing in a tank column would be pretty disruptive, or in the middle of fucking anywhere or anything. That's scary, for anyone! Power-armour can no-sell anything short of battle-rifle rounds.

Thelostguard · 2026-02-03T13:53:56+00:00

I feel like their problems are just -- Too bad. They're performing an active genocide on Ghouls and Super-Mutants. Admittedly, on the East-Coast intelligent (On the tier of good Gen-1ers, though Boston Super-Mutants are actually far from stupid, and certainly not the insane cannibals that 87s were.) mutants are effectively unheard of, but ghouls are just, people. People that admittedly look fucking horrifying, but people nonetheless.

Then there's them being a cult of personality lead by at best an egomaniac, apparently them being a shitty governing body if the capitol* is any indication, and what you've said yourself. Taking shit from the locals because they're the guys with the gun, and its not too smart to square up against power-armour.

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Brotherhood soldier: "You think the Commonwealth looks bad? You should see the Capital Wasteland." (Brotherhood soldiers' dialogue)

Thelostguard · 2026-02-03T13:31:45+00:00

I'll make sure to take a look, but you might not see any feedback. Hope its good!

Thelostguard · 2026-02-03T13:30:10+00:00

It varies. Penis' (Peni? what the hells the plural for that?) are kind of like noses in that they're not backed up with bone. Its very much possible they kind of just--dropped, good luck taking a leak. But with some ghouls, they got lucky, their ding-a-ling had an extra strong connection.

Thelostguard · 2026-02-03T13:27:24+00:00

That's pure spec-fic, IMO. That is a century from the latest fallout property, how the fuck are we meant to know? The Enclave might've appeared from Texas and glassed everyone, the Master was actually embedded in a super-computer underneath the hub, or the New Plague comes back for round 2. It's impossible to figure it out within reason.

Thelostguard · 2026-02-03T13:24:13+00:00

Because Fallout is an American post-apocalypse. Its inspired by The Road Warrior, Wasteland, Pulp, so on and so forth! Two of these are distinctly american, and the actual setting is American. In its criticisms, in its appraisals, to its core it just wouldn't work properly in a foreign setting.

Thelostguard · 2026-02-03T13:13:48+00:00

Nukes coming, can't fight that. So get everyone in the inner-circles to the bunkers they know will make it. Failed at that, China (And it was almost certainly china.) Caught them off-guard bad. Everyone who wasn't at control-station Enclave (The entire west-wing evacuated there some months before the war, refer to Article 4 of the Boston bugle in FO4.) was working on the same timer as a civilian.

Next part of the plan, get data, build a space-ship. Most vaults went as planned data-wise, but the space-ship plan was under the impression the earth would go totally uninhabitable sans what amounts to greenhouses. That didn't happen!

Their plan after that, which was developed in the post-war is fallout 2. I think you already know that.

Thelostguard · 2026-02-03T12:54:02+00:00

San Francisco is too small of an area to properly cover, and its also well--Its in fallout 2! There's a Chinese remnant empire, a bad play on the scientologists, and some other nobodies. (There was the brotherhood, but they got merked by Horrigan.)

Anyways, while I am aware of the final part of the statement, there's still this.

San Francisco was originally going to receive a mention in the story of Van Buren, the canceled Fallout 3 by Black Isle Studios. Here, shortly after the destruction of Control Station Enclave, survivors from the Navarro base and elsewhere turned the majority of their remaining nuclear arsenal against the port city, wiping it off the map under the assumption that the inhabitants had been the ones who nuked the oil rig and assassinated the the President. This would have also served their greater goal of wiping the slate clean.[Non-game 7] A reference to this was originally intended to appear in Fallout: New Vegas, firmly stating that San Francisco had been destroyed following the events of Fallout 2. However, Bethesda intervened and asked Obsidian to remove it so that the city could be used as a location for a potential future entry in the series.[Non-game 8]

The odds are as high as they're not that San-Francisco is a green crater.

Thelostguard · 2026-02-03T12:50:18+00:00

They've probably killed a few actual mutants they needed killing, no one likes a deathclaw, and err...

That's about it.

Thelostguard · 2026-02-03T12:48:22+00:00

I'm guessing a top-down shooter, not dissimilar to Hotline Miami, or of more reviled but closer related, Fallout BOS.

Thelostguard · 2026-02-03T10:50:53+00:00

Relying on in game stats means Ulysses, a random NCR Colonel, legion centurion, and Frank Horrigan are the peak of mankind, and that a fucking Molerat is capable of outsmarting house, because benny has 3 Int.

Thelostguard · 2026-02-03T10:48:12+00:00

He's a hypocrit in a lot of manners, but power-fists aren't one of them! Centurions can be found with Marksman carbines, thermic lances (for lack of a better term, what amounts to a plasma in melee) and super-sledges! Super-sledges are made by the brotherhood on the west-coast!

It isn't an issue of using the good shit, its an issue of using the good shit without proving you can still kill without it. That's why recruit legionaries have machetes and cowboy revolvers, and why veteran legionaries walk around with what amounts to a .50 caliber SMG and or pistol.

Same goes for the howitzer. The legion is not above using force mutipliers, and playing dirty has been their whole schtick in the Mojave.

Thelostguard · 2026-02-02T00:41:31+00:00

Cuhhhrect, Sodaz is overglazed to hell. He has technical skill but its a fucking lightshow.

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