Legion vs NCR? Debate #4

Post » Thu Feb 19, 2009 11:05 am

the only great khans that were killed were the sick and elderly. everyone else was incorporated into the legion under one banner

you forgot the most important thing to the Khans is their identity, being assimilated into the legion, for them, is worse than if they were wiped out, because then they were at least wiped out as Khans.
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Post » Thu Feb 19, 2009 9:50 pm

NCR does not enslave people, let alone women and children. Legion does. NCR made a mistake or one bad leader attacked Bitter Springs. Legion were going to kill very last Great Khan and Enslave the women and kids. So whats worse?


Yes, you're right. Killing innocent women and children >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> enslaving women. The Legion don't enslave children.
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Post » Thu Feb 19, 2009 6:28 pm

Yes, you're right. Killing innocent women and children >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> enslaving women. The Legion don't enslave children.

they just brainwash them and force them into the army.
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Post » Thu Feb 19, 2009 5:08 pm

you forgot the most important thing to the Khans is their identity, being assimilated into the legion, for them, is worse than if they were wiped out, because then they were at least wiped out as Khans.


And for some reason, you think that the NCR wouldn't want to do that...?


In fact, the NCR Colonel at the Damn want's you to wipe out the Great Khans.


Doesn't even want to try diplomecy.
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Post » Thu Feb 19, 2009 9:02 am

And Ghost and the mayor's terminal if that is to be believed. Once again, straw grasping. Las Vegas? *facedesk*


Have you even played FO2? You say women and Children don't live in areas full of drugs and gambling. I gave you two locations that show that they do, The Den and New Reno. I am not grasping at straws. You just don't want to face the fact that women and children can live in areas like Nipton.
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Post » Thu Feb 19, 2009 10:18 am

And for some reason, you think that the NCR wouldn't want to do that...?


In fact, the NCR Colonel at the Damn want's you to wipe out the Great Khans.


Doesn't even want to try diplomecy.

Re-read my post, the Khans value their identity as a clan over everything else, and being assimilated into the legion would destroy that. They would prefer annhialation to assimilation.
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Post » Thu Feb 19, 2009 12:01 pm

you forgot the most important thing to the Khans is their identity, being assimilated into the legion, for them, is worse than if they were wiped out, because then they were at least wiped out as Khans.


Right...Disregarding the fact you just pulled that out of your rectum, bro.

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"As reward for their loyal service, Caesar forcibly integrated the Great Khans into the Legion. The sick and elderly were killed, the women sold as wives to ranking officers, and the tribe's identity was annihilated. Though many Great Khans mourned the death of their tribe, many more were ultimately satisfied with their revenge against NCR."



Have you even played FO2? You say women and Children don't live in areas full of drugs and gambling. I gave you two locations that show that they do, The Den and New Reno. I am not grasping at straws. You just don't want to face the fact that women and children can live in areas like Nipton.


Whew, I thought for a second you were actually using real life Las Vegas as an example for a sec. I'm not denying that a family may have lived in Nipton, but everything points towards the opposite.
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Post » Thu Feb 19, 2009 1:41 pm

Re-read my post, the Khans value their identity as a clan over everything else, and being assimilated into the legion would destroy that. They would prefer annhialation to assimilation.


Apparently not, considering how they bow down to Caesar with the Legion's ending.

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Damnit Mr. Body Massage Machine....

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Post » Thu Feb 19, 2009 11:10 pm

In the Legion ending it says "Though the Khans mourn the death of their tribe. Most were ultimantly satisfied with their revenge aginst NCR"
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Post » Thu Feb 19, 2009 11:12 pm

Right...Disregarding the fact you just pulled that out of your rectum, bro.

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"As reward for their loyal service, Caesar forcibly integrated the Great Khans into the Legion. The sick and elderly were killed, the women sold as wives to ranking officers, and the tribe's identity was annihilated. Though many Great Khans mourned the death of their tribe, many more were ultimately satisfied with their revenge against NCR."



Which means that the Khans are no more, they are wiped out. (If the Legion take power) Their wives will be forced to mate with other men of the legion to breed the Khan out of them.
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Post » Thu Feb 19, 2009 9:40 pm

In the Legion ending it says "Though the Khans mourn the death of their tribe. Most were ultimantly satisfied with their revenge aginst NCR"


Lol....

Mr. Body Massage Machine already beat you and me to it...

Which means that the Khans are no more, they are wiped out. (If the Legion take power) Their wives will be forced to mate with other men of the legion to breed the Khan out of them.


....And that they are perfectly fine with that...
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Post » Thu Feb 19, 2009 6:01 pm

Have you even played FO2? You say women and Children don't live in areas full of drugs and gambling. I gave you two locations that show that they do, The Den and New Reno. I am not grasping at straws. You just don't want to face the fact that women and children can live in areas like Nipton.

But you're refusing to face the fact that there was no mention nor sight of a child at Nipton...
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Post » Thu Feb 19, 2009 8:06 pm

Great Khan's Breaking of the Treaty with Caesar and siding with the NCR:

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After the Second Battle of Hoover Dam, the Great Khans returned for a time to Red Rock Canyon. The NCR's pressing need to expand proved greater than its promise of amnesty, and before long the government decided the Khans had to go. The surviving Great Khans were relocated to an isolated, barren reservation, well north of NCR trade routes.


Sounds strangly familiar....
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Post » Thu Feb 19, 2009 10:39 am

Lol....

Mr. Body Massage Machine already beat you and me to it...



....And that they are perfectly fine with that...

mournful
mourn·ful (m?rnfl, mrn-)
adj.
1. Feeling or expressing sorrow or grief; sorrowful.
2. Causing or suggesting sadness or melancholy

just because some of them were satisfied, it doesnt mean they were fine.
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Post » Thu Feb 19, 2009 2:12 pm

But you're refusing to face the fact that there was no mention nor sight of a child at Nipton...


And is ultimately just a pathetic attempt at demonizing the Legion further.


mournful
mourn·ful (m?rnfl, mrn-)
adj.
1. Feeling or expressing sorrow or grief; sorrowful.
2. Causing or suggesting sadness or melancholy

just because some of them were satisfied, it doesnt mean they were fine.


SOME of them were satisfied with it? We're talking majority, broseph. But you made it out to be as if it was the worst fate the GK's could possible suffer, which is frankly just silly.
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Post » Thu Feb 19, 2009 1:33 pm

mournful
mourn·ful (m?rnfl, mrn-)
adj.
1. Feeling or expressing sorrow or grief; sorrowful.
2. Causing or suggesting sadness or melancholy

just because some of them were satisfied, it doesnt mean they were fine.


We know what it means.


But there's nothing that say's 'Refusing to be wiped out, the Great Khans fought a desperate last battle against Caesar's Legion!'

It say's 'Well, some Great Khans were sad, other's where happy with the NCR being wiped out, but they still joined the Legion.'
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Post » Thu Feb 19, 2009 4:30 pm

We know what it means.


But there's nothing that say's 'Refusing to be wiped out, the Great Khans fought a desperate last battle against Caesar's Legion!'

It say's 'Well, some Great Khans were sad, other's where happy with the NCR being wiped out, but they still joined the Legion.'

not joined, forcibly integrated, most likely any Khan that still wanted to be a Khan was killed.
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Post » Thu Feb 19, 2009 10:32 pm

Funny, you mentioning Nipton against the Legion, yet mentioning Bittersprings directly before. Nipton deserved what it got. Bittersprings did not.


Didn't they? Ever stop by the 1st NCR Sharpshooters and talk to Sgt. Bitter Root, who was one of the Khan non-combatants at Bitter Springs? The NCR certainly screwed up....but if the Khans hadn't burned up any goodwill they had with anyone outside thier Tribe long before things wouldn't have gone down at Bitter Springs the way they did. When you talk to the Khans, you're talking to the survivors who had to have the concept that there are benefits to showing compassion and respect for others beaten into them by first House and the Three Families then the NCR. If you encourage them to seek thier destiny elsewhere they take what they've learned to heart and prosper in thier new home. Before Bitter Springs...all the way back to FO1...they were little better than the Fiends.
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Post » Thu Feb 19, 2009 10:50 pm

@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.
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Post » Thu Feb 19, 2009 4:49 pm

But you're refusing to face the fact that there was no mention nor sight of a child at Nipton...


Its a Settlement a good size town. There will be children there. Legion could have taken them long before we get there.

Just going by what we have seen of NCR and the Legion. NCR is the better pick for control. They don't enslave, they have democracy, they build, they educate, they don't torture POWs.

Just going by what we see and heard of the Legion. They Enslave women and have their way with them. They destroy every tribe they come across. They do make order but only after they wipe out or decimate the population, enslave.
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Post » Thu Feb 19, 2009 12:21 pm

not joined, forcibly integrated, most likely any Khan that still wanted to be a Khan was killed.


*Facepalm*

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As reward for their loyal service, Caesar forcibly integrated the Great Khans into the Legion. The sick and elderly were killed, the women sold as wives to ranking officers, and the tribe's identity was annihilated. Though many Great Khans mourned the death of their tribe, many more were ultimately satisfied with their revenge against NCR.


Doesn't seem to mention any Khan's resisting.
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Post » Fri Feb 20, 2009 1:33 am

not joined, forcibly integrated, most likely any Khan that still wanted to be a Khan was killed.

So you believe that the Khans, despite the endgame slides saying the Khans were largely all right with being integrated into the Legion, suffered more alive in the Legion then they would have at the hands of the NCR?

Right....
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Post » Thu Feb 19, 2009 2:15 pm

not joined, forcibly integrated, most likely any Khan that still wanted to be a Khan was killed.


That would most definitely have been mentioned....*sigh*

@this isnt my name

You raise an EXCELLENT point about the Boulder City Showdown and the NCR's order to kill the Great Khans despite the negotiation.
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Post » Fri Feb 20, 2009 3:54 am

Its a Settlement a good size town. There will be children there. Legion could have taken them long before we get there.

Just going by what we have seen of NCR and the Legion. NCR is the better pick for control. They don't enslave, they have democracy, they build, they educate, they don't torture POWs.

Just going by what we see and heard of the Legion. They Enslave women and have their way with them. They destroy every tribe they come across. They do make order but only after they wipe out or decimate the population, enslave.


Control?

Oh yea, because the Powder Gangers (Both Vault 19 and Normal ones), Fiends, Khans, Omertas, Kings totally aren't a problem for the NCR, even after the game finishes.

Well, the Omertas are wiped out; but not by the NCR, of course.
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Post » Fri Feb 20, 2009 12:20 am

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.

Yes, the NCR killed kids once, the Legion ALWAYS enslaves kids, women, and kills all who oppose it. NCR killed a village or raiders that had seriousl worn through all mercy, one time.
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