Caesar’s Legion : The Hedgehog’s War

Is the Legion the best hope for civilization in the post-apocalyptic world or just a big raider gang that needs to be wiped out? Either way, it’s a force riddled with contradictions. Full of possibilities, some foreseen by Caesar and others that he’s completely blind to.

I gave up trying to get New Vegas to run on new hardware, so the game clips are taken from some of Oxhorn’s Fallout videos, which are great lore-dives.

Between when this was recorded and posted, I read “On Grand Strategy” by John Lewis Gaddis, which gets into the themes here in much more detail. I recommend it if the strategy of aligning goals and capabilities or the fox and hedgehog models are of further interest.

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00:00 Intro
01:18 Origins
03:41 War as Sacrifice
04:50 Foxes and Hedgehogs
07:35 Determinism and Skipping Steps
11:05 Mongols > Romans?