Their resources are certainly going to be stretched thin for quite some time, agreed, but I don't see them facing any serious threats.

With their defeat of the Enclave and reactivation of the Purifier, recruiting will be through the roof as glory-seeking individuals join up, while the large stockpiles of Enclave tech they've seized will enable them to move effectively against the raiders and mutants of the Capital Wasteland.

Now that they have Vertibirds and APA MkII, I can't see the muties or raiders remaining as a real threat for much long; the raiders are liable to simply move on as the Brotherhood exerts its power (you can't beat a vertibird and most raiders don't want to pick fights they can't win) while the mutants can be crippled simply by sealing off Vault 87 with a vertibird strike.

It'll be touch and go for a bit, sure, but the advantages of APA MkII, Enclave energy weapons, a steady recruitment base and most of all Vertibirds cannot be understated. They have lethally effective air support that none of their enemies in the Wasteland have any counter for.

I'd say that by the events of New Vegas the CW as we saw it is likely unified under the leadership of the BoS and Rivet City; whether they will be a state subordinate to the BoS or equal partners with them is hard to tell, though.
Mutants and raiders might still be around, but they'll have been driven to the fringe.

Why none of this high-tech stuff did the Enclave any good._{[censored] Bethesda...}

Indeed, I love to see gamesas give the same treatment to the BoS in FO4.

I'd be happier (well maybe) if the Bethesda just gave something old good treatment.

Why none of this high-tech stuff did the Enclave any good._{[censored] Bethesda...}

That's not a valid comparison; the Enclave wasn't actively warring with the BoS until the purifier assault, at which point Prime was able to negate virtually every Enclave tactical advantage (notably the vertibirds). Even without Prime, the BoS is very close to the Enclave in terms of training and equipment, and after his destruction they had the Tesla Cannon to answer Vertibirds with.

Mutants and raiders don't have anywhere near the same parity with the BoS that the BoS had with the Enclave, and they especially don't have a Vertibird counter.

That's not a valid comparison; the Enclave wasn't actively warring with the BoS until the purifier assault, at which point Prime was able to negate virtually every Enclave tactical advantage (notably the vertibirds). Even without Prime, the BoS is very close to the Enclave in terms of training and equipment, and after his destruction they had the Tesla Cannon to answer Vertibirds with.

Mutants and raiders don't have anywhere near the same parity with the BoS that the BoS had with the Enclave, and they especially don't have a Vertibird counter.

(it is as if you don't give them a chance in heck, and you want them to fail. Seriously, i know they may be white knights or "Hippies", but don't ruin it for the rest of us, we like the openness and chances the CW BoS has, and it is a good thing for the Fallout universe.

Seriously, gamesas did not ruin everything, I mean come on, if Fallout 3 was so bad, why is it that PC Gamer listed it in the top 100 games of all time at #27 to name one of the awards it has received over the years for how good the game has been, i mean seriously if all the top rankings it got, people still say is all bought and fake and it is a lousy game regardless of what awards it got.

the Enclave had artilery already set-up, they could have shelled the massive crane holding up the one entrance but instead they shell the bridge they had people on

Funny that they had barricades and artilery set-up along the BoS's route from the Pentagon to the Purifier, and had tonnes of Vertibirds already in the air. They were fully geared for any assualt well beforehand.

Yup; they were geared for an assault, but they weren't attacking the BoS outright. Big difference.

And they certainly weren't geared for an assault by Prime.

Regarding the "shelling the crane" comments; Do you really think a crane built to lift Liberty Prime out of the Citadel is going to roll over and die to artillery fire of that caliber? It'd certainly be able to resist it long enough to get Prime on the outside, and in any case that still only gives the Enclave about 20 seconds to realize what's happening and stop it; an impossibly short time.

I agree that the ending could have been handled much better from a gameplay standpoint (it should have been the whole BoS following Prime in and not just six people) but it's not completely implausible either.

I agree that the ending could have been handled much better from a gameplay standpoint (it should have been the whole BoS following Prime in and not just six people) but it's not completely implausible either.

Who was shooting the artillery anyways

The Rocks???

Yes it is, why didnt they use the orbital strike platform earlier, why not attack the weak points on Primes thighs, why didnt they blow up the bridge when Prime was on it, why didnt they collapse a building on him, why didnt they do all the things they could have to stop him? Bad Writing.

All the enclave would have done is tell Prime that the BoS are US army deserters and have him kill them all.

I pretty much picture the Enclave reaction to that as being http://i263.photobucket.com/albums/ii139/master_chief_117/animation/stormtrooper_hump.gif, except the guy's in APA MK II.

Yes it is, why didnt they use the orbital strike platform earlier, why not attack the weak points on Primes thighs, why didnt they blow up the bridge when Prime was on it, why didnt they collapse a building on him, why didnt they do all the things they could have to stop him? Bad Writing.

Yes it is, why didnt they use the orbital strike platform earlier, why not attack the weak points on Primes thighs, why didnt they blow up the bridge when Prime was on it, why didnt they collapse a building on him, why didnt they do all the things they could have to stop him? Bad Writing.