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I think Power Armour would really come into its own in urban warfare situations, where you could carry heavy ordinance from building to building, going places no tank could go, virtually invulnerable to all but direct hits from high-calibre armour-piercing rounds, or massive explosions. In open...

That's exactly what a Pinko Commie Anarcho-Islamofascist would say!

It's relevant to the discussion going on about Vault 22, all the plants dying in Zion, how Tribals survived outside of vaults. Scroll up 4 posts, it's been going on for several pages.

When a nuclear weapon goes off, it creates fallout by fission products, and neutron activation of anything in the shine path. Anywhere not subject to a direct hit won't be irradiated immediately. What will happen is that all the activated dust and crap that was sucked up in the fireball will...

Just because the two situation aren't exactly alike doesn't mean they are incomparable. People did bad things, there were reasons, analysing the reasons doesn't mean you are making excuses or being an apologist for the bad things. They don't see themselves as murderous bastards. They see...

And I contend that they are. They have been brainwashed by very bad people. That does not mean that the people who are killed, raped and tortured are not victims to a far greater degree, but if we put our fingers in our ears and pretend that people become terrorists because they are...

Of course it's bullshit. I have never said otherwise. Just because it's bullshit doesn't mean people don't do it though. Bombs fall, kill some civilians at a wedding, make people angry, people make the stupid choice to join a terrorist group. Just because that decision is moronic and...

I am under no illusions that the key motivation for the Iraq war was about "freedom" or "WMDs". There was never any objective to stabilise the country. However, if you go into a country, remove the government and generally wreck the place, I think you have a moral obligation to rebuild. The...

Seeing as we are already waaaaayyyy off topic, my own personal opinion is that we need boots on the ground. We should never have pulled out of Iraq before the country was stabilised. We could possibly have negotiated a peaceful settlement with Hussein. We shoudn't have removed Mossadeq. We...

Dude, you don't have to agree with us, but going off in a huff because of the mere existence of an opposing viewpoint? Really?

Turns out my source was New Vegas Bounties 2. Feck it, I pretty much consider Someguy's mods canon anyway.

I think it's canon that the Legion use slave labour to farm on a large scale, and some tribes would probably also have farms. Can't find the reference for it now though.

Okay, fair enough. So the Legion are advancing. The NCR are in trouble. If the Gun Runners start a war with the NCR now, the best case scenario for them is that they win. They cut off the head of the NCR. Well done Gun Runners. Now what? The legion are still advancing, who is going to stop them...

As Walpknut said, the NCR isn't collapsing. Its problems are far from insurmountable. The gun runners are an arms manufacturing company. They rely on the infrastructure of the state to survive and thrive. Supply chain, raw materials, educated labour, prosperous markets, a pretty much exclusive...

Getting into a full-scale war against the armed forces of the NCR would be a stupid business decision. If the Gun Runners took over the NCR by force, it would still make no sense to sell weapons to the Legion or raiders, who would still be determined to conquer their territory, or steal their...

Why? What would their motivation be?

A couple of well-placed skeletons can give a bit of atmosphere, even if it's not fully realistic. As I said before, a skeleton with a shotgun in a bathtub can add to the post-apocalyptic feel, if it is in an abandoned shack miles from anywhere. A skeleton in someone's house, where they have...

And stuff like that is one of the good parts of FO3. And it would work even better with a coherent story and setting. 30 years after the war. And if you're going to turn the BoS into boy scouts anyway, just replace them with a division of the US Army equipped with power armour.

Or they could have been playing both sides off against the other, trying to keep the resource wars going. A little money to a counter-Chinese insurgency in Thailand, some arms to Canadian freedom fighters...

I think they do explain that somewhere by saying the Draugr maintain the tombs (when they're not mindlessly attacking you). That accounts for the torches at least. The tomb cheese is another matter though. I can't imagine the Draugr milking zombie cows in their spare time.