No.5418
Oh boy, so I played the new Old World Blues update, and uh
>start as the Mojave Brotherhood of Steel
>make the plays leading up to Operation Sunburst (the Mojave BoS/Mojave NCR war that happens before NV) by siding with Veronica and aligning ourselves with the minor factions to get more manpower, which we translate into more power armor divisions and gap-filling militia forces
>operation Sunburst begins, Veronica is a military general who gets up to 5 attack, 2 defense, 7 planning, and 6 logistics
<Hardin meanwhile gets 8 attack and 2 everything else
>all under MacNamara who I optimized for maximum equipment retention and capture so whenever we need weapons, the NCR brings them to us
>handily win the war so hard that hardly 4 months passes, the NCR is totally kicked out of the region and I prepare for my next moves
>New Vegas was caught in a civil war between The Kings and Mr House so I opportunistically pounce on them, winning the war easily and expanding the territory of the BoS
<all the while Legion is massing at the Dam while we are doing repairs and training to fight the Legion
>war finally breaks out, manage to make initial push into the weather surveillance station
<for anyone who has never played NV, it is a lot more than a weather surveillance station
>activate the fuckmassive robot army under the base and use it to handily crush and annex the Legion (except Lanius' territories for some reason but whatever, I am sure it won't come to bite me in the ass later)
>begin securing the Big Mountain and Sierra Madre facilities to get the tech within, all while restoring Hoover Dam to full capacity and using it to power the whole of the Mojava
>suddenly, a message
<NCR declares war on the Western BoS
>motherfucker.exe
<only halfway through securing Big Mountain, but if the NCR is coming for one BoS splinter they will inevitably come for us all
>decide to justify and declare on the NCR to alleviate some pressure off the Western BoS, dedicating the whole of the military to be ready for a strong initial push
<war declared against NCR, initial push wipes the floor with their shitty troops and leads to nearly 10k losses in the first month of us joining
>things are going steadily, the NCR is surely doomed with the combined might of 2 chapters of the BoS complimented with a robot army to destroy them
<suddenly, I hear: Robo-scorpians, attack!
>Big Mountain's think tank unified with Mobious to stop the BoS' exploration of Big Mountain
<then, another message: Lanius' Legion declare on the Maxon BoS (a relatively small midwestern BoS splinter)
>decide I have to jump in to save the Maxon BoS, suddenly putting me on a 3 front war
>completely reorganize the army into new task forces; one assigned with containing the NCR and holding our gains thus far until our army can be solely dedicated towards fighting them again, another assigned to crushing the Think Tank and securing the last secrets of Big Mountain, and a last one assigned towards cutting a bloody swathe through the Remanent of the Legion and saving the Maxon BoS
>duplicated the division templates and specialized them for each enemy, giving the NCR and Legion task forces flamethrowers and Gatling lasers, while giving the Big Mountain task force rocket launchers and tanks to fight the robo-scorpians
>NCR task force manages to hold after some triage and falling back into 3 province bottlenecks and are able to hold off the hoards of NCR troops, easily becoming elite veteran soldiers for their constant combat experience
>Big Mountain Task Force manages to cut right through the robots quick enough to take their capital and end the war quickly, allowing me to re-dedicate them to fighting the NCR
>Legion Task Force manages to push through the river dividing our territory from the Legion Remanent and meets up with the Maxon BoS to mount a decent defense, and with some extra troops from the Big Mountain Task Force, manage to slowly push them back
<the Texas BoS, after wholly reunifying Texas, ends up sending massive amounts of volunteers for the fighting and begins to push another advance on NCR territory
>after a large assault pushing through junktown and the Glow, we manage to reunite with the Western BoS and close one front of the war
>meanwhile, with the Legion front, the Maxon BoS manages a decisive victory and encirclement after a failed naval invasion by the Legion Remanent, collapsing their battle lines and leading to them getting overran and capitulating
<the Maxon BoS then dedicates their veteran forces to fighting the NCR
>literally the whole fucking gang minus the East Coast BoS are now attending the "who can kick the NCR's ass the hardest" contest
<the NCR's entire ranger corps gets destroyed during the Battle for Baja, leaving them only shitty infantry and motorized
>a slow grind leads to a steady collapse of the NCR, with a sudden civil war starting between many factions like the Brahman Barons and others leading to their even faster downfall
<meanwhile, the Mojave BoS becomes canonized as a true chapter and becomes the Helios BoS
>the Helios BoS restores the Hoover Dam completely, restores Helios One to full capacity, reactivates several nuclear power plants, rehabilitates long-abandoned US military bases, and restores the infrastructure of the wasteland
>Elijah manages to find the quantum matter re-constructors of the Sierra Madre, affording him basically unlimited resources and easy production which, when coupled by the hilarious power output of all the power sources they have collected, allows the Helios BoS to end all resource scarcity in all BoS held territory
<speaking of, like 1/3rd of the continental US was held by the BoS at this point lmao, ranging from the whole of California to Utah to Texas
>the civil code of the BoS held territories was simple: surrender any and all advanced technology, and live a life of unparalleled luxury with no resource scarcity and abundant power
>basically, created a post-scarcity society ruled by a military caste of dudes in power armor and robots that ensure that advanced technology never falls into enemy hands again
also, you know Roxy, that robo-dog from Big Mountain? Veronica adopted it.