- Is it possible that the BoS march east under Lyons brought along the concept of caps as a form of currency and it spread along the coast, leading to their usage in places like Boston, Washington, and the Pitt?
- Is Snuffles canonically female?
- New Vegas's conflict doesn't make any sense, Part I
- Moria’s 2297 Terminal entry
- Some Questions about the Tunnelers
- Whatever happened to power armor training?
- Why is jet found in unopened vaults or just vaults in general?
- Why do people use Pipboys?
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| Is Snuffles canonically female? Posted: 24 Nov 2020 06:52 PM PST The Fallout Wiki and Gamepedia entries indicate Snuffles is a female. Aside from the behind the scenes tidbit, which states the character was male during development and evidently switched to female by the final game, is there an official source for what the accepted gender is? What other reason would one have to believe Snuffles was eventually changed to be a female after cut content specifically noted a male mole rat? These are the important lore questions. [link] [comments] |
| New Vegas's conflict doesn't make any sense, Part I Posted: 25 Nov 2020 12:14 AM PST Fallout: New Vegas had a great storyline, with interesting DLCs and themes. The main conflict of the story was also pretty great, with it having each faction given a theme and persona. Which made it really fun, seeing all the various shades of grey in the story. That said, after going back into the storyline, a few issues starting popping out. Issues, that I spent some time thinking on. And I ended up thinking, "Hold up. This doesn't make any sense." I'll be splitting them up into separate posts so that the topic remains concise. So let's start with the first one. I. Manpower: "The possibility of victory without sacrifice, without shed blood is an idea not to be put in circulation", says Caesar. This takes shape in brutally training soldiers since childhood, giving them the poorest weapons they can find (typically machetes or spears) and sending them out as an expendable first wave. A trial by fire, for new Legionaries, with all promotions being given to those who either survive the longest, or are skilled enough to be recognised. Obedience is absolute; a superior's orders must be obeyed unto death, with the average legionary being taught to think less and obey more. However, this creates a major issue. Veterans, Decani, Centurions and Legates now become extremely valuable pieces, since it takes years of battle experience to reach Veteran or Decanus, let alone the skill and experience for Centurion and Legate. Plus, a Decanus dying puts his contubernia in disarray. A Centurion dying puts his century in disarray. And considering how visible they are on the frontlines, it's child's play for snipers to know whom to eliminate for maximum damage. Which the NCR fully exploited in the First Battle. Doesn't help that these troops are equipped with the best scavenged weapons Caesar can outfit them with, stuff like carbines, thermic lances and anti-mats, meaning unless another Legionary can retrieve the weapon, it's a permanent loss. Legion casualties are guaranteed to be heavy. Charging into gunfire to fight at melee or using poor-quality scavenged guns, which can jam or break in combat means that against reliable guns, they need numbers to win. Take away the gameplay DT difference, and a well-aimed 5.56 will always put down a Legionary at 100m. The average legionaries also might have weapons like Cowboy Repeaters and Varmint Rifles, none of which are particularly powerful against hardened steel (which is what I assume the NCR uses, they've got the metallurgy base to produce ceramics, carbon steel should be easy), and so, 1 on 1, as long as the Legionary can't close in on a trooper in seconds, he's getting shot, and a 5.56 will tear through football pads with ease. Colonel Moore also tells us how machine gun nests get overwhelmed by literal human waves. The Legion would lose anywhere from tens to hundreds trying to overwhelm a single MG point. The Legion also allegedly relies only on tribals and births to replenish their numbers. Issue is, the Legion's pitiful medical care means both infant mortality and maternal mortality must be staggeringly high (backed by J.E Sawyer's statements), while most tribes are rarely very large and tend to have the majority of their adult men massacred at Legion hands, leaving the Legion to rely mostly on captured children and potential births. Children take time to train. Captured adults take even longer. Caesar makes stamping out dissent and identity a crucial feature of his regime, that with the intense training needed for recruits would not only take years, but any casualties sustained, such as from exhaustion or injuries, while training would, in all possibilities, be treated as weakness and left to die. Meaning that even there, Caesar won't have a 100% turnover. The First Battle of Hoover Dam saw their main army destroyed. Almost all of Caesar's veteran leaders were killed, resulting in him seeking more tribes to conquer. Now, 4 years is nowhere near enough time to regain every last one of his battle-hardened Centurions, Decani, Veterans and Primes. Caesar either would have to redeploy his soldiers from across his empire, or rely on inexperienced recruits. Even then, a significant portion of his military would have to be dedicated to capturing the 14 tribes, who would have to be re-educated, trained and blooded in just 4 years, not to mention the losses they'd face in doing so. Caesar allegedly does not enslave his citizens, meaning that's a pool of manpower he does not use. I also believe that the first army at Hoover Dam was his absolute best. Caesar was obsessed with the idea of Vegas and the NCR, of course he'd send his finest to capture his Rome, including his Legate. We actually do see that at the Second Battle of Hoover Dam, with high ranking Legionaries attacking. Losing them all for no gain would've been a catastrophic loss to the Legion. That's hundreds of hardened soldiers, high quality equipment and field leaders that they'd have lost. Add that to Graham's exile, and the Legion was effectively headless for a brief period until Caesar could re-appoint leaders on every level, such as a new Legate, Centurions and Decani. Yet, somehow in 4 years they regain all their strength, act just as dangerous and are said to outnumber the NCR. The numbers aren't adding up. Not when it's an army that decimates and squanders its own numbers, while recruiting solely from conquered tribes, leave alone the issue of facing foes on the East and maintaining security within its territory. Especially not when you realise the region is also not developed enough to sustain modern agriculture. There's no chemical fertilisers or large scale irrigation to produce a lot of food. Which translates to relatively small tribes. Which means there aren't that many people to enslave. In other words, the size of the Legion doesn't make sense. On the NCR's side, we hear that a thousand soldiers die every year for the past 4 years. It can't be the Legion, they're still trying to rebuild their forces. Can't be the Gangers either, they didn't exist then. The Fiends, while dangerous, aren't capable of killing a thousand soldiers if they're inside the Vegas ruins all the time. The Khans carried out hit-and-run on caravans, so not them either. Ain't the Brotherhood either because they're hiding at Hidden Valley since Sunburst. Hoover Dam saw 107 losses, and was the largest battle ever fought in the Mojave. Yet they've lost more than 200 5-man squads every year since then. Almost 1 squad every two days. Those losses are ludicrous. While it'd be understandable in 2281, there's no explanation for how it was the case from 2278 to 2280. Depending on the army size, it's even worse. That's 10% of all soldiers in a year if the NCR had 10k units inside the Mojave. Extremely heavy. And that's just deaths. Not casualties, deaths. And against whom? A Legion that was just decimated, lost their top officers and lost the best weapons they'd scavenged? A Legion that literally had to abandon the Colorado for years until 2280-2281, when they drove the NCR off the East Bank? Again, the numbers don't add up. (To be continued in Part 2) [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 24 Nov 2020 10:21 AM PST Where is it said that she wrote about the Wanderer? I see it on the wiki but I don't know where it would be written [link] [comments] |
| Some Questions about the Tunnelers Posted: 24 Nov 2020 09:17 PM PST so I just had a nice conversation with Ulysses and asked he about the tumblers in the collapsed overpass and he said they were very dangerous ( my gatling laser says otherwise) but specifically said he'd seen them kill deathclaws. he said they would swarm them and tear them apart. this really confused me once I fought a deathclaw and the dam thing tore through my power armor in 2 hits. So my questions are, are tunnelers actually threatening on their own, and can they really do much damage to whatever faction gets control of the Mojave?. also I assume that they can be stopped early since The Courier knows about them right? [link] [comments] |
| Whatever happened to power armor training? Posted: 24 Nov 2020 10:38 PM PST In fallout 3 and fallout new Vegas you are not allowed to use power armor until our playable characters are trained in their use. In comparison, Fallout 4 and Fallout 76 allow the characters to play in power straight out of the vault. I always suspected that the SS might have prewar knowledge and the 76'er might have been trained in the vault. Is there any lore on this or was there just a retcon to the whole training thing. [link] [comments] |
| Why is jet found in unopened vaults or just vaults in general? Posted: 24 Nov 2020 04:00 AM PST I don't really get why some vaults in fallout have Jet, a post-war made Chem, I guess they could trade with outsiders, but I find that very unlikely. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 24 Nov 2020 11:11 AM PST You have an bulky, sturdy, robust and heavy computer attached to your arm, and this computer has the same power as a Gameboy. [link] [comments] |
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