Is Fallout Tactics Canon?

TheAmericanHedgehog

First time out of the vault
I remember hearing that it wasn't canon, but they talk about certain events from Tactics in Fallout 4. So, what's going on with Tactics?
 
Is and is not does not make canon, only a canon maker can make something canon.
However if I remember correctly they basically butchered tactics to the point were only specific references are "canon" and literally threw the rest out.

Which is rather confusing considering that for a viable canon to exist the prerequisite plot points must be maintained to make specific parts of the canon coherent. I'm sure it is obvious that this has not happened.
 
Is and is not does not make canon, only a canon maker can make something canon.
However if I remember correctly they basically butchered tactics to the point were only specific references are "canon" and literally threw the rest out.

Which is rather confusing considering that for a viable canon to exist the prerequisite plot points must be maintained to make specific parts of the canon coherent. I'm sure it is obvious that this has not happened.

They did make it canon. They said it was semi canon around the time of Fallout 3. Now Tactics has been referenced in every new game released.
 
So which is it semi or full canon?!
We need to hash out these details! Quick someone get a white board and some markers, and some coffee and some snacks.

Were going to science the crap out of this.
 
So which is it semi or full canon?!

We only know what they reference.
Fallout 3, Scribe Reginald Rothchild makes a mention about a small detachment of Brotherhood in Chicago that have fallen off the radar and gone rogue. The only known group of Brotherhood that has operated in and around Chicago is the Midwestern Brotherhood of Steel.

In Fallout: New Vegas, Caesar mentions that the Legion has captured Brotherhood scribes back East. The only known Brotherhood group operating close to and east of Legion territory is the Midwestern Brotherhood of Steel, most likely in Colorado. This is considering the fact that both Caesar's Legion and the Midwestern Brotherhood have been to Colorado.

In Fallout 4, the airship accident is mentioned when asking Lancer Captain Kells about the Prydwen's history and design.


There are other references but they aren't on the wikia. The only thing that really made Tactics canon questionable was the weapons and Vault 0 and a throwaway line about the BoS.
 
All this does is shore up my old defense that the BOS DC detachment should not exist, ever.
Such wasted potential....
 
All this does is shore up my old defense that the BOS DC detachment should not exist, ever.
Such wasted potential....

What you mean how they didn't stroll by the Midwestern BoS on the way across the US? You could possibly get around that by saying the Midwest BoS's power had decreased and they went back into hiding.
 
Unfortunately we can only speculate in this case. But from what I can think of it honestly does not make any sense other than a slap dash attempt to reincorporate lore that they completely forgot about after the fact.

Bethesda needs better writers (who have actually played the games), toot sweet!
 
Unfortunately we can only speculate in this case. But from what I can think of it honestly does not make any sense other than a slap dash attempt to reincorporate lore that they completely forgot about after the fact.

Bethesda needs better writers (who have actually played the games), toot sweet!

It makes sense as much as Fallout 3 does really.
 
What you mean how they didn't stroll by the Midwestern BoS on the way across the US? You could possibly get around that by saying the Midwest BoS's power had decreased and they went back into hiding.

This is completely fanon but I feel that the MwBoS helped form a nation across the Midwest, from Chicago to Denver. The Brotherhood there, already a more realistic radical faction, became either the 'Adeptus Mechanicus' or 'Stormtroopers' of this new nation, handing more and more power to it but still serving as its special scalpel; thus why the Legion has Brotherhood armor pieces on their more elite members due to a conflict in the Denver region with this nation. This nation was also passed by the Lyons sect; but that was in the 2250s (say, when did the Legion pop up again? Did Lyons literally leave the Brotherhood during the NCR-Brotherhood war and walk across Legion territory? Ow, my brain....) and in their own warped view of reality still chalked it up as a Brotherhood domain.

This nation hasn't expanded much, but it has grown, and holds a strip of the middle of the great plains, the northern section being too cold to bother with and the southern section possibly coming under the influence of whatever came out of Texas, and holds capital either in Saint Louis or Chicago, with my bet on Saint Louis with Chicago being a massive lakeside corpse of the pre-war megalopolis, too big and too damaged to bother cleaning up proper. Thus why the Enclave could make a very small base there, since it's no longer the real focus of the MwBoS nation.

So on and so on. Since we can't ignore the main Fallout games, we can however skim the details and make generalizations. The Lyons Brotherhood, sure, became a small, powerful force on the East Coast, but in pursuit of their conflicts burned themselves out very quickly, and were defeated in the Boston Region by the Commonwealth after burning themselves out over the Institute, while the DC wasteland was too poor to support them and fell into chaos and anarchy after they left and fought the 'Purification War', a small skirmish level conflict against a Enclave remnant, utterly destroying them. Stuff like that is what I would put in any new Fallout game if I could write for it.
 
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