Here is my proposed faction sheet. It's on the longish side, so perhaps the final version of this could just be used as a reference and not replace the one in the OP unless you want to spoiler it out.

3. The Pitt
Leader: Lord Ishmael Ashur

Held Locations:
Approximately 45% of the pre-war city of Pittsburgh (the rest is infested with Trogs, though a systematic effort to clear infested sections of the city for human occupation and/or scavenging is ongoing.), the area roughly 20 miles in diameter around Pittsburgh, and a number of fortified settlements across Eastern Pennsylvania, Western Ohio and Northern West Virginia. Ashur has also entered into a feudal arrangement with nearly all settlements and tribal groups in a 50 mile radius of Pittsburgh where in exchange for accepting him as their Lord and providing resources and food, as well as troops and laborers for local projects, they receive finished goods and protection. In addition, I-76 and I-70 are regularly patrolled to a point just outside the Capital Wasteland.

Military: Substantial. While the Pitt has a large and well-equipped standing Army by Post-War standards, they have a large and restive slave population as well as the Trogs to contend with in the Pitt itself, settlements that provide strategic resources to protect, and allied and subject settlements that need to be protected from the better organized and equipped Raiders that are found inland. There is also the latent foreign threats posed by the Midwestern Brotherhood of Steel, and Ronto. Because of this, the Pitt can only field a Expeditionary force for an extended time that, while respectable, is not truly representative of the Pitt's actual strength. However, an invader would find themselves fighting Ashur's entire army, reinforced by the free settlements and tribals sworn to his service.

Aside from the Enclave and the Institute, the Pitt is the only faction with the ability to mass-produce its own weapons and armor. The Pitt's factories can mass-produce non-energy weapons that can be built using early 21st century (roughly 2010-2020) technology. More advanced weapons and armor, such as energy weapons and Combat armor can be repaired or rebuilt (with significant effort and expense), but variants of metal armor is the best armor the Pitt is currently capable of building new. Aside from Ashur himself, and a handful of senior lieutenants and wealthy citizens, Power Armor is not available in the Pitt. The few suits (appx 10-12 at any given time), captured in battle or scavenged, are jealously guarded by their lucky owners, they are too few to be worth assembling into a organized unit. The Pitt cannot build robots, but can service them. Robots are not used by the Pitt's military, they are re-purposed to industrial or infrastructure projects that are too dangerous to use slaves, such as coal mining or operating in toxic environments that would kill a human.

The Pitt has a vast (by Post-War standards) industrial capacity, a respectable offensive and very powerful defensive capacity, and a large number of slaves, as well as a smaller pool of free laborers outside the Pitt itself.

Factional Goals: The Pitt seeks to solidify it's position as the dominant power in Pennsylvania, and use Pittsburgh's revived pre-war industrial base to build a new future for everyone in the Pitt. The biggest impediment to this is Trog Degeneration Contagion. Finding a cure, or a vaccine, is Ashur's top priority and all necessary resources are being devoted to that end.

Primary Bartering assets: Raw resources and the products of the Pitt's unique industrial might.

Since i am particapting as the Abbey, what if i make some references to bible quotes and stuff like that. Will i be warned. What should be kept to the minimum?

I'll leave that up to your best judgement. However, like I said, keep it minimum since we certainly have individuals of different faiths and creeds on this forum. Its okay to roleplay (obviously) and some bible versus are probably okay, but lets not make the convention real-world political/theological.

Also that sounds good Tiberius, That's quite a long faction description so I wont post it (I might put it in a spoiler tag though), but that will be the official description of the Pitt for the purposes of the convention.

My only stipulations I think would be to lower the number of power-armor suits available by a bit (perhaps to 10 or so, keep in mind that Ashur was the only one to have been "lost" during the scourging of the Pitt, and I would imagine these suits would be similar to Ashur's in quality). I would also avoid getting too far outside of the Pitt's territory. I like the idea of Ashur having tentative control over some of the surrounding villages/towns in the immediate area of pittsburg, but lets not make them too expansive.

Aircraft carriers have a very nice and well equipped machine shop for fabricating repair parts for the ship, her escorts, and the embarked aircraft. They could easily produce guns on a craft-work basis. Between that, the well stocked armory, and the anti-aircraft artillery guns...only very well armed or stupid people would try to directly assault Rivet City. If I were in charge of Rivet City's security, I'd have as many of the AA guns working as possible. Even Enclave military planners would respect that kind of firepower.

Can I be Rivet City?

I was visitng relatives and I just got back an hour ago. I'll be able to post now.

I'll add you.

The main thread is also up as an FYI. Although I assume everyone has probably seen it.

Whoops, I apologize Fritz, I missed your post.

Hmmm....how to solve this.

Would you mind taking on Talon Company or would you still prefer Rivet City?

EDIT: Fritz PM'd me, I think we have it worked out.

Ok..say around 10-12 working suits available at any given time? Only a recently captured suit would be pristine, most would look like Ashur's or the Tribal Power Armor as they were handed down over the years and repaired with whatever material could be found....most suits found by Pitt Raiders are broken up and used to fix the few operational suits they have. Except for Ashur's, the other suits were either captured from skirmishes with the MWBoS or scavenged from the Wasteland.


I was figuring on him directly controlling the area for about 20 mi. around Pittsburgh, and having great influence out to around double that distance as the locals basically recognize him as their feudal Lord. Beyond that would either be self-governing allies, or the occasional Pitt settlement placed to control a strategic resource. I don't see the Pitt really trying to expand much in the course of the Convention, but setting up farms to provide food, reduce the concentration of slaves, and allow both Raiders and slaves time outside the Pitt to strengthen them against catching TDC is something I think Ashur would do. Also, there are some activities like mining coal that require a presence outside the city. It is also in Ashur's interest to keep the trade routes to Ronto and the Capital Wasteland open.

Would you prefer I move the outer zone of influence in to around 50 miles?

Yep, sounds perfect. I just wanted to avoid the Pitt having too much "shock troops." I believe their main advantage is supposed to be quantity over quality.



Yes, that would be preferable I believe. Thanks.

It was more for flavor than anything else. I could see Ronto being able to field a unit in PA (since Canada was occupied and under Martial Law at the time of the War)...but not the Pitt, which was in a relatively quiet area.

Heres a list of my faction locations for future reference:
Fort Independence
Anchorage war Memorial
Wheaton Armory
National guard depot
Roosevelt Academy
Bailey Crossroads
Old Olney-Powerworks
National Archives
Museum of Technology
Hamiltons hideaway
Arlington Library
Washington monument

The brotherhood abandoned GNR radio.