

these places have to have seen some form of enclave occupation at one time. what about the illinois and chicago groups? im also POSITIVE that the enclave wouldnt simply skip over high value cities like Houston, denver, the indian reservations all over america, and the bigger port towns.

what about the enclave? we have 3 chapters accounted for and destroyed: east coast, oil rig, nevarro. apart from the outcasts of the dc wasteland who killed anything that looked at them wrong, i HATE the brotherhood! too much corruption and not enough of anything else. a step forward(or back, whatever) to the vegas chapter and you have a madman replaced by a coward usurped by a chode. the "pseudo-knightly nonsense" of the eastern chapter really made me enjoy killing and eating every member of lyons pride. What about the enclave? not gonna lie, ive never EVER liked the Brotherhood. If anything, the events of Operation Sunburst speak more to the strength of even an abysmally mismanaged Brotherhood chapter than they do to the capabilities of the NCR- at every possible disadvantage a Brotherhood chapter could have faced, they still managed to escape what should have been their annihilation with half their force intact and disappear without a trace, subsequently evading NCR's attempts at detection for a full five years. It was taken within the wake of the establishment of McCarran, when the NCR forces were still at full initial deployment strength and before morale had been broken, and when the rout of the Brotherhood began, Elijah, who was never a competent strategic commander in the first place, left his troops leaderless amidst the disarray. It was a prime strategic resource coveted heavily by the NCR upon their arrival in the Mojave, which means they were going to attempt to take it no matter who was there, if they could justify doing so. They were openly occupying Helios One when the NCR showed up, so it's not as though the NCR undertook a competent seek-and-destroy operation or anything, and pretty much everyone in the Brotherhood except for Elijah acknowledged that the location was an indefensible suicide trap they should never have tried to hold.


Click to expand.The Mojave chapter was kind of a special case, though.
