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And to secure any of those farms the Legion has to cross very inhospitable terrain, stretch their supply lines, and fight the NCR on their own turf. Which is going to be far from easy. If they don't secure those farms in the first few weeks of fighting, every morsel of food, every round of...

Yep, but they're small outposts in frontier territory. The NCR were trying to defend the entire length of the Colorado there. They won't be nearly as overstretched trying to defend their own territory, with well-developed infrastructure and supply lines. This time it will be the legion that will...

Or just make FO3 semi-canon. A small Enclave detachment clashed with a rogue Brotherhood chapter over some unspecified piece of technology. That fits perfectly fine in-universe, and you can ignore horrible things like Girdershade and Little Lamplight

Nelson? It really depends which way they came in from. I wouldn't have attacked directly from the Colorado if I was the legion. The NCR are stretched so thin the legion could probably have circled round and taken the high ground overlooking the town without much of a problem. There are other...

Yes, if the legion won in the Mojave, the NCR would have to heavily fortify I15, which seems to be the only transport link good enough to march large armies over. I don't see them having the stomach to scorch earth in their own lands as they retreat if the legion ever beat them back to...

He could be exaggerating, either to glorify the legion, or to scare their opponents. The legion, while fearsome fighters, are given to bravado. Crni Vuk also makes the good point of what type of combat we're talking about. 16 legionaries could quite easily pick off 64 NCR soldiers over the...

Napoleon's army were advancing across the bread basket of the Russian Empire though. The Legion would be advancing across a desert. It doesn't matter how good a survivalist you are, if you keep pumping troops into the Mojave at some point there isn't going to be enough geckos to hunt or banana...

I've always deactivated the nukes. Nuking civilians and slaves is not something I would even consider doing. Even when I'm role playing it just seems wrong (although I've never RPed as a Legion frumentarius or anything)

I think it's kind of implied that the Legion have superior numbers, and that's why they're so terrifying. And they're not as poorly-armed as people seem to think either. I like to think they fight sort of like the empire that inspired them. Lightly-armoured and armed Hastati in the front line...

I haven't played Tactics or BoS, are the Midwestern Brotherhood actually interested in running a nation state?

I'd tend to agree with you there. Centralisation is good for some things, bad for others. Especially in the Fallout universe, a massive centralised state spanning the entire US isn't going to be able to meet the needs of its citizens properly. Given the choice between warring city states with...

"Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time." (Winston Churchill was an utter shit, but an extremely quotable shit) An intrinsic flaw of democracy is that, well, people can be idiots. You see it all the time. Politicians...

Yep, mainly the internment of Chinese Americans. As far as I recall it wasn't just Chinese citizens, but anyone of Chinese extraction, as their loyalty was considered suspect. There's also a sort of "yellow peril" tone about a lot of the background material. As for sexism, again, background...

I always though that a laser weapon would be easier to use and maintain than a comparable "combustion pistol", to quote OWB. No moving parts, no recoil, no bullet drop, no Coriolis effect, no need to lead targets (unless Chinese soldiers can run at relativistic speeds). A solid-state...

I can't imagine the two groups would end up in all-out war. The NCR isn't interested in destroying the brotherhood as such, they just want to expand. Theyd probably come into contact with Brotherhood chapters as they did so, and end up fighting them one by one, but they have no real reason to...

Yeah, a laser weapon disintegrating someone into a pile of ash is about as likely as a pistol bullet exploding an entire human body into bloody gibs

Many mutants are just as much people as anyone who was born in a vault. Especially when you consider that the Enclave considers anyone who has been exposed to the slightest amount of FEV or radiation to be a mutant. Plus the fact that pre-war America was hardly glorious. It was an oppressive...

Because that is: a) Morally dubious b) Likely to get you shot for treason

Oops. Typo! That should say 2301

I've pitched this one before, but anyway: It is 2301. You live in a small town in southern Idaho. The battle of Hoover Dam was won by Mr. House, beating back both the Legion and the NCR. The Legion split into North and South. The Northern faction staying true to the ideals of Caesar and Lanius...