2000 miles is the rounded down distance from Las Vegas to Washington DC "approximately 2420 miles" (Google).

Still you are right it would be closer to 3000 miles, the Distance from Lost Hills to DC.

So Lyons walked close to 3000 miles in only 2 years, through unknown territories that is the post apocalyptic wasteland. Only known stops were Pittsburgh and area close to Chicago. Does not make much sense how he was able to do it or why they did not stop anywhere else or find anything else on the way. Bethesda Magic :wink_smile:

Well... Forest Gump ran around the country, who knows, maybe they'll give us a adequate explanation in Fallout 4, The Hunt For More Money

The scourge was specifically in Pittsburg, not all of Chicago.
And sad to say but the Midwestern Brotherhood fell apart according to Rothchild in FO3, but I think he says that was just a rumor and that they don't know for sure.

- 2 ALG. Not sad, but a [censored] to walk in their T-45 power armor.

I thought they came on the same air ships that crashed in Tactics.

No metion of airships at all in FO3. They walked over 3000 miles in two years, apparently not finding anythinig of value or intrest or any opposition of note till they got to The Pitt.



"Run Lyons Run!"

Yeah really... they should atleast have explained it like...

"They traveled by vertibird until they saw the remains of Pittsburge... They were low on food so they were going to try and scavenge some and they found it in a terribly mutated condition... They decided that they either kill these mutants now or it'll come back to bite them later.

They cleared it out and continued on to DC..."

But no they walked across America in bulky Power Armor, somehow walked right past the MWBoS, found nothing of interest the entire way there (until the Pitt), and somehow made it there with very few losses (all died or let behind in the Pitt)... That is incredibly ubelievable, should have been better written... Maybe they could hire us!

The BoS didn't have Vertibird tech at that time (then left before the enclave came on the scene didn't they?) plus Vertibirds don't have that range. They could barely get to navarro from the oil rig. One way. (They needed the base to refuel for the return trip.)

True Vertibirds don't have that rang but there is a quest in FO2 to give the BoS Vertibird blue prints.

No the people who crashed in Tactics are not Lyons' brotherhood.

I know, but didn't they leave between FO1 and 2? Or am I thinking of something else? (Like the Midwest BoS)

But that guy (was he called Matt?) gets killed by Horrigan.

I wish they would hire us as writers. some one should start a topic on that.

Yeah no. Lyons BoS left like 60 years after FO2

Could have passed it on to others before that.

I know that... That'd just be the only way it really made sense.

They should atleast have an Adventures of The Brotherhood DLC where you see a struggle for survival across the harsh wastes.

It was one big Psycho trip and the next thing they know boom there sitting in the Citadel with Liberty Prime.

Also didn't the Enclave use vertibirds to get from the West to East coast.

Its been suggested but seems unlikely given that the range of vertibirds is so short (like 170 miles or something). However if there are vertibird refueling stations like the one seen in New Vegas scattered acoss the U.S. or in unknown Enclave outposts, then it could be possible and would explain the existence of Vertibirds on the East Coast (given that the were created on the oil rig).

I *figured* it out!!!

The BoS are knights in shining armor right?? Well they *totally* got to DC knight style.
They found coconuts and "rode their houses" all the way to DC to find the holy grail of tech there. Right? Right?? Right?!!

http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Fallout_2_special_encounters#King_Arthur.27s_Knights_fighting_a_rabbit

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4_9kDO3q0w&feature=related