Basic tactics and training can be done within 12 weeks under proper conditions.
NCR troopers are shoved out the gate in 1 week. Also, with them losing the Mojave, most of your ''officers'' are getting killed and the army will be in too much of a mess to properly train the rest.
I admit the rangers aren't seen committing much subterfuge but they're still very able at intelligence if only because they have deeper ranks to draw from. Frumentarii are a budding agency at best and their effectiveness with Tribals won't entirely translate against California itself.
False. Frumentarii are well-trained spies who blend in perfectly within their enemy's ranks. There's a Frumentarii in Camp McCarran and the NCR is completely unaware of him. Also, once Hanlon eats a bullet or gets decapitated by Caesar, the Rangers' power, according to the lore, is shaken greatly, since their power is reliant on the experience of the older members. If Hanlon and the Rangers in the Mojave bite it, the Rangers back home are reduced to a shell of their former selves.
''After the death of Chief Hanlon, the power of NCR's Rangers was broken for years. Their organization, so reliant on the wisdom and guidance of its elder members, became a shadow of what it once was to people across the wasteland.''
-Ending slide if Chief Hanlon kills himself
His lack of tact starts affecting the Legion from the start. Sending hordes to die at the Boomers, killing promising assets like the Followers and smashing everything in New Vegas to the point that he might as well have not bothered conquering it demonstrates that he's going to waste his manpower to a worse extent than the NCR ever could in just maintaining his conquests.
The Followers won't serve him anyways. The Boomers, sure, they're a problem, but the NCR shares the same problem when they wanted the Brotherhood dead, and you offering an olive branch to the latter pisses off Colonel Moore. Hell, Moore is literally the Lanius of the NCR, and she's one of your ''officers''
Thing is, militarily, Lanius can easily spot the weakness of any commanding officer and manipulate it for his own gain, hence why he sent troops to infiltrate the Dam because it wasn't built for war. Any commanding officer the NCR sends against Lanius is likely to lose, and with the senators and brahmin barons caring more about their own filthy hides than the common good, they'll likely surrender to Lanius to avoid being destroyed.
As for manpower, the Legion practically mass-breeds soldiers for that shit. Even more so than the NCR. So they've got more than enough to spare, and Lanius knows it.
I'm not sure what game you played. There's are multiple full fledged corporations backing the NCR MIC. The NCR isn't doing its best giving them the supplies but it's producing them and turning out more than kids with machetes.
The game openly says that NCR caravans are getting attacked and destroyed by raiders. Meanwhile, the game also says that Legion caravans are safe. And we see everywhere in the game that those ''kids with machetes'' have guns up the ass, from service rifles, shotguns, machine guns, and marksman carbines. Piss off the Legion, and most of their hit squads you meet have some pretty good guns like 12.7mm SMGs, brush guns, and other cowboy weapons that hit really hard.
They might have lost the Mojave that's true, but that's not because it isn't an able war machine. Those footsloggers and bureaucrats are very keen assets for an army to have. You need people like that to keep any kind of effective army going and that broken mad man was worse than useless in turning on his own mission.
But there's no leaders who can formulate proper strategies, and the Legion also has footsloggers and bureaucrats aplenty. But the Legion also has better tacticians than the NCR, which will obviously lead to the NCR getting creamed in future conflicts. Especially when NCR soldiers are given a week's worth of training and sent to die, whereas Legion troops are trained for years on end.
The NCR can absolutely wipe the floor with the powder gangers and that's exactly what happens when you go far enough down that quest line on either perspective. All it takes is a platoon and they will render the prison floors slick with blood if you let the battle play out from the sidelines.
And yet the Powder Gangers and the Fiends harass NCR citizens with impunity unless the Courier gets involved. Which of course, will continue if the Courier is never involved at all.
''The NCR, battered by the loss of the Dam, were unable to devote any troops to retaking the Correctional Facility from the Powder Gangers. As a result, Powder Ganger raids on caravans became an unfortunate fact of life in the Mojave for years to come.
Armed with a wide array of improvised explosives and stolen weapons, the Vault 19 Powder Gang tormented the Mojave Wasteland for years. Citizens of the NCR were favorite targets, and they always suffered the worst fates.''
As for the Fiends, if you don't kill their leaders, they will inflict heavy casualties on the NCR.
''Never weakened by NCR, the Fiends staged an attack against Camp McCarran during the Second Battle of Hoover Dam. Though NCR repulsed the Fiends, they suffered heavy losses in the process.''
So yes, minus the Courier, the Powder Gangers run wild and kill NCR citizens with impunity, while the Fiends slaughter the NCR troops before being repulsed.
The man won the first battle so its OK for him to throw the second?
Because he can see that it's a hopeless situation. And being the smartest man on the NCR side, he's the one who is the most qualified to give such an opinion.
Literally, without a dude with plot armor or an army of robots, the NCR will lose the Dam. Meanwhile, even without the Courier's help, the Legion can easily take the Dam and overtake the Mojave, because everything has already been planned out.
I mean Lanius would be a Sith if we are being honest so if we are doing the iconic Mustafar battle then he would lose. I'm not even a Legion ball washer and I would prefer him to win, cause objectively he would.
Exactly. Meanwhile, you can have Caesar as Palpatine and Aaron Kimball as Yoda having a fight of their own.
*Kimball knocks out the two Praetorians guarding Caesar*
''I hear a new Legatus you have, Caesar. Or should I call you Edward Sallow?''
''President Kimball. You survived.''
Exatcly, they are basically a mix of the NCR and the Yes Man route taking the better parts of post at the cost of worse writing.
It's basically what if the Sole Survivor built his own NCR.
True, love em or hate em the Institute has the potential so much awesome shit that 4 squandered big time, shame since the build up established in 3 via the replicated man quest is kinda neat.
Basically, yes. The Institute had so much potential. A good character can share its technology with the world and unite it with the prospect of peace, an evil character can use it to create an army of high-tech war droids and take over the Commonwealth.
OH MY GOD THAT WOULD BE SO FUCKING PERFECT AND HILARIOUS! Man now I want to see that happen, like just imagine the Prydwen getting taken down by a old ass bomber that came outta nowhere, that would be hilarious. Brotherhood cucks on suicide watch.
Exactly. The Boomers fly by and BOOM, the Prydwen sinks like a drunk fratboy belly-flopping into a volcano.
It's only really been the hot thing to do to hate 3 specifically after Hbomb made his video full of stolen takes about it. Fallout 3 was widely acclaimed when it came out with only a few super grognards seething about it back in the day.
Hell, back then people loved FO3 and hated FNV because the latter, as per all Obsidian titles, have more bugs than a beehive.
Fallout 3's fuckups seem more like shit people just don't like rather than massive and terrible lore blunders that effectively destroy the setting. The big complaints I always hear are "The Brotherhood are good guys now", which they take great pains to explain, and "Why are there super mutants and Enclave?" Which also makes sense.
They openly stated that the real Brotherhood in the game are the Outcasts. Who act like their usual tech scavenging selves and they pay you in exchange for tech samples.
The Enclave specifically, if they were going to have a holdout group stationed anywhere, the capital of the United States makes sense.
The fact that they were originally placed in some dipshit oil rig off the coast of California never made sense to me. Some Red Chinese warship can easily rock up and blow them to hell. But an underground bunker near the White House, that makes perfect sense. That's where the president should've evacuated to right before the bombs dropped.
Otherwise it is just extremely pedantic shit like "What do dey eats?" Which is absolutely the kind of faggot nerd shit that doesn't matter and shouldn't when it comes to RPG design.
The fact that they're willing to say that Fallout 3 is a bad game because of such tiny details is why I never take these idiots seriously. I mean, come on, that's such a tiny detail that nobody really gives a shit. Maybe they get their food from traveling caravans or from stockpiles of frozen food stashed someplace.
