To many large societies

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Originally Posted by tsofian

In canon 3rd edition there is a lot of the USA that is under the control of powerful cultures. Texas, Kentucky, Maxwell's Militia and others. Is this too much? Does it leave enough "howling wilderness" for game play?

They're mostly pretty fragile, maintaining equipment they'd struggle to move to the right location or repair never mind replace.

Texas has at most a couple of thousand troopers to cover a vast geographical area and moving their M1s must be a nightmare.

Whenever one encounters Maxwells Militia they seem to be a handful of skilled and experienced soldiers, long separated from their command structure. With maybe at most a broken down old tank.

Kentucky maybe the big exception in that they can move, repair and supply a pretty impressive military establishment. Not only that but their combination of light armoured medium armoured gun cars, turbo prop ground attack aircraft and plain old trucks n' Jeeps seems actually purpose designed for the Mad Max style world they're living in.

The weakness of Kansas is they're defending a rotten, corrupt slave owning imperial dictatorship of privileged families. So they seem to do little, the invasion in Fall back seems more the actions of boredom and spite rather than a serious plan of conquest.

Perhaps though if they were to be hit hard, say by the actions of the various teams in Fallback. Then that might inspire a survival of the fittest revolution with the surviving families putting the industry on a full-time war and vengeance footing. Then they might become a threat to every thing that's left of civilisation?