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* Picking up New Vegas again, I was struck by the fact that tthe NCR-Legion war is such a slog. Even factoring in the logistical strain the NCR is clearly under, they seem to have inordinate difficulty against the Legion. Then two factors hit me that may also be playing a role.
** First, the Legion's logistics aren't only closer to their home regions, they're also relatively simple as well. The NCR are organized similarly to a contemporary military force, meaning that their soldiers should, on paper, receive excellent medical care and support for their actions. This sounds good ethically, but logistically it means that trying to get their people what they need through such a narrow choke as the Mojave Outpost is horrifically restricted. Even their basic service rifles need replacement parts, their doctors need everything from stimpaks to anesthetic-Jet, and as mentioned several times their caps and dollars are flowing into New Vegas without seeing any real return thanks to House's policies. In contrast, the Legion makes it clear that it cares only for the whole victory, and each slave-soldier is expendable. They use weapons that are relatively simple in comparison to the NCR, and as much as others mock the football pads, it suits the Legion's preferred tactics of closing the gap and getting into melee combat. Their supplies are utilized by a separate slave class as well, meaning they don't have to pay the same monopolies the NCR has to regarding the Crimson Caravan and Gun Runners. Their medical and food footprint is foraged from the land, meaning they need only collect as they go.
** Second, the strategies utilized by both factions. Previously, both were facing threats that they could both surround, overwhelm, and strangle. For the Legion, they were constantly confronting other tribes and raiders that couldn't bring the same numbers to bear against Caesar. Tribes and raiders who often fought with similar styles to the Legion, but without the same logistical capabilities. Conversely, the NCR had been waging an extended campaign against the technologically superior, but numerically-inferior Brotherhood, utilizing massed attacks at range to neutralize the technological advantage the Brotherhood would normally have. When finally thrown against each other at Hoover Dam, the two forces essentially acted as opposite sides of a coin to each other. The only thing that won the day for the NCR was the fact that the Ranger units were able to improvise well enough to neutralize the traditional tactics of the Legion.
** First, the Legion's logistics aren't only closer to their home regions, they're also relatively simple as well. The NCR are organized similarly to a contemporary military force, meaning that their soldiers should, on paper, receive excellent medical care and support for their actions. This sounds good ethically, but logistically it means that trying to get their people what they need through such a narrow choke as the Mojave Outpost is horrifically restricted. Even their basic service rifles need replacement parts, their doctors need everything from stimpaks to anesthetic-Jet, and as mentioned several times their caps and dollars are flowing into New Vegas without seeing any real return thanks to House's policies. In contrast, the Legion makes it clear that it cares only for the whole victory, and each slave-soldier is expendable. They use weapons that are relatively simple in comparison to the NCR, and as much as others mock the football pads, it suits the Legion's preferred tactics of closing the gap and getting into melee combat. Their supplies are utilized by a separate slave class as well, meaning they don't have to pay the same monopolies the NCR has to regarding the Crimson Caravan and Gun Runners. Their medical and food footprint is foraged from the land, meaning they need only collect as they go.
** Second, the strategies utilized by both factions. Previously, both were facing threats that they could both surround, overwhelm, and strangle. For the Legion, they were constantly confronting other tribes and raiders that couldn't bring the same numbers to bear against Caesar. Tribes and raiders who often fought with similar styles to the Legion, but without the same logistical capabilities. Conversely, the NCR had been waging an extended campaign against the technologically superior, but numerically-inferior Brotherhood, utilizing massed attacks at range to neutralize the technological advantage the Brotherhood would normally have. When finally thrown against each other at Hoover Dam, the two forces essentially acted as opposite sides of a coin to each other. The only thing that won the day for the NCR was the fact that the Ranger units were able to improvise well enough to neutralize the traditional tactics of the Legion.
