Corvo wrote:

I still find it so hard to believe that a force of entirely male, football gear wearing, machete wielding slavers would realistically be a dominant force among the wasteland.

Yet they are. Imagine how the chinese felt when the mongols conquered them... or the romans when those filthy, degenerated, horse raiding barbarians called "Huns" systematiccally destroyed their armies until they where at the gates of Rome.

You put too much value on technology. The BoS had (by far) better tech and better training than the NCR and yet they lost the battle for Helios-1.

Honestly, without Kimball (Who is assassinated successfully even without the Courier's intervention.) the NCR loses their fight. Even if they successfully repel the Legion a second time, which is unlikely seeing as they barely got away with it the first time with a trick that surely won't work again (And the Legion has stacked the deck this time.) they'll ultimately leave the Mojave as President Kimball is the only real driving force behind the confrontation and most NCR Senators prefer to just leave the Mojave alone.

so a lot of people here agree, ingame the legion are piss-easy to kill but from a lore perspective they could actually be a force to be reckoned with, finally giving the legion some power lol, i do think both factions are flawed not to mention the fact NCR has an unwillingness to push into legion territory, so it's just another case of stalemate till someone fucks up