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Snekposter said:
People really short-sell just how powerful the NCR is because they don't realize that their only real supply line into New Vegas, the I-15/Long 15, is one of the worst things you can traverse on foot.
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Not really. The FNV game makes it clear that the NCR is basically nearing collapse, and the only people who aren't suffering are the rich brahmin barons and landowners. The local citizens are being taxed to the bone, conscription brings more troops to die in the Mojave, the caravans aren't protected and are typically ambushed, and criminals like the Fiends and Powder Gangers are operating with impunity while back home, the Brotherhood continues to exist, and places like New Reno are still run by criminals, while the best NCR troops are guarding cattle ranches and the homes of the rich, meaning the local citizens in the NCR are not protected.

That is not a powerful government. That's a government slowly collapsing upon itself. Caesar is right in noting that it won't last, that he's just hastening what is inevitable.

There's a reason why the smartest NCR general turned into a doomer who's essentially a traitor. Hanlon wants the NCR to retreat in good order and preserve its manpower, using it to protect their own lands, not occupying the Mojave where the locals hate them and they're just getting killed like chumps by Legion raiding parties and local criminals.

The only city comparable to New Vegas in the NCR are New Reno and MAYBE Shady Sands, if you squint and pretend. New Reno is flagrantly run by crime families and pornographers, and we don't know if Shady Sands is as sophisticated as New Vegas.

Snekposter said:
Again: the NCR, both the government and private citizens, have the means to operate a massive caravan chain that goes all the way from Los Angeles, through Death Valley, and into New Vegas, and have enough private citizens showing up to keep House and the casinos in business. Keep in mind all of those Service Rifles and all that 5.56mm the NCR issues are built at home in the Gun Runner factories in the Boneyard, not salvage from the ruins of the Old World.
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Yet they're getting ambushed left and right by common gangsters, Legion raiding parties are operating with impunity in places supposed to be under NCR control, and places like New Reno in NCR territory are openly controlled by criminals.

You're also assuming that the Legion doesn't have production capacities for making guns. Which, given that they show up in Hoover Dam rocking brand-new marksman carbines, shotguns, anti-materiel rifles, thermic lances, power fists, and ballistic fists, is obviously false. They're obviously capable of producing weapons as well. They also have private citizens operating caravan routes, and unlike NCR caravans that get ambushed and need private protection, the Legion caravans are safe, the raiders dare not touch them for fear of reprisal.

In my first FNV playthrough, I was playing for House, and I got my head blown off by a Legion sniper with an anti-materiel rifle with one shot. I was wearing Enclave Power Armor at the time, the strongest armor in the game. It goes to show that the Legion can match the NCR's best Rangers in firepower.

Hanlon even notes that not all NCR troops have proper service rifles or armor, showing a major supply shortage among the common NCR troops.

So yeah, the size of the NCR doesn't necessarily translate into strength, whereas the Legion has all the strengths of the NCR without its weaknesses. The only difference is that the Legion is more ruthless, but they can match the NCR pound for pound in terms of firepower, manpower, and logistics.
 
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So I've been watching the TV show thanks to a link someone gave me so I don't have to support Amazon or Jeff Bezo's yacht. I came into this with low expectations so unfortunately I'm not going to be as MATI and I've only managed to really get through two episodes because the show I'll be honestis a little boring to sit through and it's not really interesting enough to do a full in depth review of on an episode by episode basis, but...

1. The writing is juvenile and schizo

2. The wall-eyes the female protagonist has are distracting

3. The lead protagonist also cannot fucking act

4. The show also looks nothing like Fallout. It looks like RageTM with a giant fallout sticker slapped on it.

5. I'm getting huge Force Awakens deja vu watching this. That was another movie I didn't like at the time.

6. Why the fuck are Critical Drinker and other anti-woke critics cucking out to this show so hard? Is Bethesda paying them off?
 
Serbian Peacekeepers said:
Honestly I think its the best Hoi4 mod and probably the Best Fallout mod ever, or at least best fallout related mod that has a story. Parts of it still need reworks and we still don't have anything east of the Mississippi after 5 or more years, but its good.
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thats honestly probably for the best a few high quality things is much better than a bunch of low quality trash
 
The handsome tard said:
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Todd was definitely seething over New Vegas in this series.

Blowing up Shady Sands definitely comes to mind, the Mojave Rangers (or guys dressed like them) gets clowned on by the Ghoul (Cool dude, but still) and Episode 8 is literally Operation Sunburst except in reverse. Instead of the Brotherhood getting its ass kicked by the NCR, its the opposite. And its a funny coincidence that both factions are fighting over a power source. Again.

So its guaranteed that Todd was hate playing New Vegas when he was helping the writing for this show. But it seems he had a soft spot for Raul Tejada at least.

Can't wait to see how Todd adapts Caesar's Legion for the inevitable Nevada adaptation.
 
MajinGoku said:
what do you guys think of the old world blues mod for hoi4 and its lore
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Pretty good IMO, there's some strangeness in it (not sure why the devs insist on getting Lanius associated with AI waifus) but overall pretty solid. The Enclave mod is pretty good too but I feel most of the effort went into Granite's side.
 
Mysterious Autist XX said:
wait what? I don't own HoI4 meaning I haven't touched the mod so can you explain this? That just seems really fucking dumb and random.


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Because they took everything Fallout related but F3/4 and a bunch of dogshit OC donnut steel the mod is stitched together crap. One of the things they added is Van Buren stuff including the ZAX controlled sanctuary for children turned tribals. And you can play as that sanctuary and go full fashi mode and become a robot controlled sister nation to Lanius Controlled Legion.
 
Smashed & Slamed said:
Because they took everything Fallout related but F3/4 and a bunch of dogshit OC donnut steel the mod is stitched together crap. One of the things they added is Van Buren stuff including the ZAX controlled sanctuary for children turned tribals. And you can play as that sanctuary and go full fashi mode and become a robot controlled sister nation to Lanius Controlled Legion.
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That sounds both really cringe and really hilarious at the same time ngl.
 
Dave. said:
6. Why the fuck are Critical Drinker and other anti-woke critics cucking out to this show so hard? Is Bethesda paying them off?
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you mentioned force awakens, basically enough brain dead retards like fallout 4 and 76 players are propping it up, along with the left who seem to actually like this kind of shit instead of pretending to like they normally do, its an easy way if youre a soulless grifter to get good goy points. ie they can say that theyre not racist because they support this piece of race mixing dei seminar as a show slop just like how force awakens alot of anti types also used people disliking its balatant propaganda to dunk on to prop themselves up. someone posted to me yellowflash saying its woke one video then saying its actually a blow to sjws in another, basically the show managed to genuinely appeal to retards rather than fail to pander to them and they cant do a "go woke go broke" thing and they dont want to explain to their audiences that they dont actually have unilateral power to bankrupt properties.

so i dont think todd really cares enough to pay these faggots i think instead they just got cold feet when they saw the broccoli hairs and danger hairs taking it up en masse. id actually respect them more if they were paid shills theyre somehow more pathetic, they do it for free.
 
MajinGoku said:
what do you guys think of the old world blues mod for hoi4 and its lore
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Damn great mod. Good fun by itself, and with submods you can rebuild the USA.

And no, I don't mean with the NCR. God bless the USA, and nowhere else!
 
Old World Blues (The Hoi4 Mod) is well worth a try if you have Hoi4, just stick to big name Nations (NCR, Caesars Legion, the BOS nations excluding the Washington Brotherhood, New Reno, Vault City, ETC). OWB suffers the same issue as base Hoi4 where it has a bunch of Nations in it but 80 to 90% use generic focus trees and pretty much only exist to fill out the map.
 
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