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Precipice of War - We Write Under The Sign Of The Goat

I think the only name that can be easily remembered is Hou Sai Tang. But that old guy doesn't get in a post often.

Precipice of War - We Write Under The Sign Of The Goat

I don't know how you can't, most of the time they're one or two syllables max.

What's hard is remembering their surnames.

Fallout: Generals of the Yakima Republic | A Cooperative Military NRP

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Fallout: Generals of the Yakima Republic | A Cooperative Military NRP

Pepperm1nts said
Eh, to be fair, the Republic was made up of people from all over the place. There are natives from the area, Enclave remnants from the west, Brotherhood of Steel trying to seek refuge from persecution, NCR defectors, ect. The county may have not had a lot of people to start, but people found their way there from elsewhere and set up a republic.

The immigration issue is much the issue but more how it could have kept up with local competition before. Or how neighbors would perceive its rapidly growing power through immigration, as well as the fledgling Republic being able to feed all these bodies. The Wasteland isn't that friendly to agricultural pursuits, and you could argue the Pacific north-west being as rainy as it is that a lot of top soil got washed away when the trees were turned to carbon and nothing grew to hold anything together, making their situation even more dire.

But then again, the NCR managed to somehow grow crops in the desert outside of New Vegas. But they're the NCR and have a pretty well funded OSI.

Fallout: Generals of the Yakima Republic | A Cooperative Military NRP

TheEvanCat said
I think you're a little over the line, too, for your "inept social skills" or whatever comment.Aaron likes to rustle jimmies. It's what he does. Doesn't mean anything.

I could also go more for the jugular and question why a county with only a couple ten-thousand individuals (PRE NUKES) can hope to achieve the strength to create an institution like a Republican government and manage to defend itself from more predatory foes from within and without. Especially at the start where theoretically the "Republic of Yakama" could be much smaller than it is now, even if it was running on Viccy 2 rules where a democratic government attracts far more immigrants than not. But then not only am I challenging the image of the RP but the deeper lore and the map and the mechanics and all of that which would demand a much larger redrafting than saying, "You know, maybe I could adopt a different name for a unit".

Fallout: Generals of the Yakima Republic | A Cooperative Military NRP

And Fallout like to dive for the most exaggerated. So if there's a chance something could have gone super-Native American it would have. Either as a joke or a possibility.

After all, Native Americans in general are pretty far and thin these days but you get a lot of emulation of the Native American image. This may be a predominately South-West thing, but Caesar's Legion is composed of hundreds of forcefully annexed tribes that had Amerindian motifs: Blackfoot, Painted Rocks, Twisted Hairs, Twin Mothers, etc. And you'll get similar sprinkled throughout.

Unless they were scouting Seattle for a game setting then they may have gone back to the contemporary military set-up or urban gangs for names. But something like Yakama County with its name, history and rural set up it's a pretty fresh and tempting move to stray from organized urban branding (Tunnel Snakes, xxth [whatever] battalion) to something as unfamiliar but near as adapting native american branding. It's less demographics and more how the Fallout brand works.

Precipice of War - We Write Under The Sign Of The Goat

I like to get everything done in one fell swoop so it's all nice and relevant.

And so I don't end up waiting three days before I release a post where a guy walks down the street.

Fallout: Generals of the Yakima Republic | A Cooperative Military NRP

Pepperm1nts said
Not all of the units are natives, but I agree the native ones should have been closer to their roots.

Names like Death Claw Swinging With Clenched Fist are much more interesting than the middle of the road 2edgy4me "Black Death". But you may have to look into local naming patterns to get it better.

Sort of the same vein as the Manchurian "Tiger Spirit" battalion.

Fallout: Generals of the Yakima Republic | A Cooperative Military NRP

You know, for something set more-or-less inside an Indian Reservation where there'd be people related to the native Klickitat or Yakaman population I almost expected there to at least be more stereotypical native-american names for some of these units, just translated over into English.

Like, less "Black Death" and more something whimsically 'natural' and Native American like "Death Claw With Swinging Fists" or "Slinking Shrew Over Rotten Log".

Precipice of War - We Write Under The Sign Of The Goat

Lol.