@this isn't my name- during the Iliad they had concubines while they were battling and their wives usually were the power in the household so the legion would still make sense in that respect.
Hopefully in the Honest hearts dlc, that is what we will see. I get tired of the people arguing against the legion based only on what we know from
war camps however you dress it up, war is never pretty, the difference is thats all we see of the legion.
I have said many times that we don't know. So you did not catch me putting my foot im my mouth. As someone on here has said we are now debating on info we don't know. I am making my case on what we do know. What we do know is that the Legion don't keep deals. They enslave women and treat them as live stock.
NCR does not go in shooting. They do have laws and order just not so much order in the Mojave. They do like to talk first. Yes there are black marks like Bittersprings but thats not the norm.
Yes Nipton was home of some bad people but thats no reason to go in an kill everyone.
People say Caesar wants to rebuild Rome. Benito Mussolini also wanted to do just that.
And the NCR wants to rebuld the American government who went on to invade canada, and start WW3.
NCR does not have the troops to deal with powder gangers and the Legion. Troops cost taxes and training and NCR is a domocracy so they can't just force people to go to war without pay. Legion can. They can kidnap you in the middle of the night kill your family, enslave your wife and kids and force you to be canon fodder.
Oh thats great. So what will they do when more raiders show up ?
Alos look at it this way, say that you play an ncr character and only complete the MQ, what happens ?
FOTA evicted.
Fiends overrun mccaren
Powdergangers run rampant
freeside still in conflict
primm left undefended.
House, the only one building and keeping the strip opperating dead.
That paint a
very grim picture of the Mojaves future.
No house means the strip has less order, and no one to make sure everything is running as it should.
The violence in freeside results in the kings being wiped out, less order in freeside.
This causes freeside to collapse, as the followers were exiled, and no one can help freeside. Thugs control the streets.
Primm is wiped out.
powdergangers kill any traders, crippleing the trade in the mojave, worsening any problems due to more fighting over supplies.
Fiends rule outer vegas, and continue killing everyone.
The ncr is unable to maintain order. Society fails, and power is pretty much handed over to the raiders.
The legionhowever just wipes out all resistance. Making the wasteland safe.
They'd force what NCR Engineers they managed to take alive to run it for them while cutting power to the NCR. When it inevitably breaks because they Legion doesn't have the manufacturing base to maintain it....even House would need NCR maintenance support...the slave engineers would be crucified for failure and the Dam would just become a fancy footbridge for the Legion and it's messengers. If the Legion eventually overcame the NCR there is a outside chance they could get it running again depending how much can be salvaged from the now defunct NCR's industrial base, but that's years away from the NV game timeline.
Yes, because only the ncr can run the dam *rolls eyes* becuase the legion are all uninteligent tribals who just kill people with machetes and spears./sarcasm.
The legion arent dumb.
Papa Khan states that the Great Khans had been flaunting the NCR's demands, carrying out raids under the assumption that NCR vows to retaliate were simply bluffs. Tensions rose higher, and eventually the NCR tracked what they believed was a large raiding party back to Bitter Springs. Having been harassed continuously by the Khans, the NCR troops did not expect Bitter Springs to be anything but a war camp. Fueled by anger and frustration, goaded by the Great Khan's audacity, and lacking appropriate orders, the NCR's 1st Recon opened fire on what they were told were retreating Khan troops.
Boulder city showdown, they are ordered to kill khans despite you negotiating freedom.
Also it changes nothing, Boone is a snipe, he sees what he is shooting at, he knew they were childern. But in ncr fashion, did it anyway.
Atleast the legion dosent sink that low, hey enslave kids and make them legion, but they dont shoot them like animals, no thats how ncr works.