Needs a good tank brigade to just plow over them.
Woah, I didn't actually expect a reply! I see my flippant prediction about taking on the USA and USSR at the same time ended about as poorly as expected. Honestly I'm almost surprised there's a PRC in the 2330s, but I suppose the (presumed) RoC that controlled the rest of the coast would have it's hands far too busy with endless ghouls to stomp on them before they got established.
Given how China ended up even worse off than the USA though I can't help but wonder if the PRC support the Californians are expecting might not be disappointing.
Just some minor map suggestions . . .
The Gobi Scout Rifle from New Vegas says that as part of the war there was a Gobi Desert Campaign. The Gobi Desert is mostly a strip that covers parts of southern Mongolia and northern China and follows the Chinese-Mongolian border.
It's mostly untouched in your map, but without radically altering the map, you could probably just say America and its allies fully occupied Mongolia and you'd basically have half of the Gobi in allied hands.
In the opening for Fallout 4, on the day the nukes were launched, that newscaster says that the 5th Infantry Division is fighting on Mambajao Island. That's an island in the Philippines. You can't actually see it on that map but it's just off the northern coast of the Philippine's large southern island.
So there should probably be a Chinese presence in the southern Philippines that hasn't been totally destroyed yet.
I would put my money on theory that includes railguns, supercavitating torpedoes, and plasma railguns versus gunpowder and converted oil tankers. Especially when one side has friendly ports that can repair and refit your ships that don't need a South American round trip. It really sucks when the only way you are getting your new hull leaks fixed is sailing for a few weeks back home.
How is reclamation and technological development coming along in Europe, and how much of it was bankrolled by the US? I would assume that the British and German forces have relatively modern equipment, but nevertheless "last-gen" compared to American forces?
- Allied expeditionary troops of the Kaiserliche Reichswehr under Feldmarschall (5-star equivalent) Frederick Augustus Hohenzollern, designated as “Battle Group America”. 100,000 soldiers will be present by mid-2332. Forces await designation to a combat zone.
- Allied expeditionary troops of the Royal British Army under Sir Charles Arthur Maudling, 4-star equivalent; designated British Expeditionary Force to America. 75,000 will be present by mid-2332, 100,000 by the end of the year. Forces await designation to a combat zone.
How is reclamation and technological development coming along in Europe, and how much of it was bankrolled by the US? I would assume that the British and German forces have relatively modern equipment, but nevertheless "last-gen" compared to American forces?
British have similar, but better tanks in the form of the Cataphract MBT (which is basically a Chieftain with an ETC gun). They also generally have taken to using gyrojet rifles instead of laser weapons, largely because they relied less on American largesse to tech-up.
While their navy is technologically inferior, AFAIK the gap isn't nearly as big as in ground combat and more importantly neither side has the qualitative advantage of knowing what they're doing.
At least part of the reason the US army has been going from strength to strength is that they've spent a half century at this point refining modern PA assisted combined arms warfare while expanding US territory and the NCR simply hasn't.
What I think is going to doom the NCR Navy in the long run is logistics.
Their other option would be quitting the gulf entirely to return to California for repair and resupply, and if the USN isn't stupid they'll be watching the canals like a hawk with subs to try and ambush the Californians in that very scenario.
More critically, what does a naval victory actually look like for the NCR? Lets say they do successfully contest that Caribbean, are they expecting to be able to drive enclave forces out of the gulf entirely? Merely wrest enough control for landings in the Southeast?
You know I have to say, I really enjoy where you take fallout technology.nuclear-deterrent SLBM launchers of the pre-War Democracy class (now upgraded with large-scale stealth fields.