Do you think factions like the Brotherhood of Steel will have different military branches in it like Air Force or Navy. I know we saw the airship and vertibirds in the trailer plus the USS Constitution.

Do we even know it is the Brotherhood of Steel in the game yet?

If the faction has a military agenda then chances are they will have different branches for their military.

The Brotherhood of Steel has an Airship fleet so the airship is most likely theirs.

Well Branches would make sense. But that would also depend on the scarcity of flying machines etc. No point in errecting an entire branch if you only have two or three airworthy vessels.

The Brotherhood of Steel airship fleet was destroyed when it crossed into the mid-west by tornadoes and storms. They lost the entire fleet at the beginning of Tactics.

Yes Cinder is right. That fleet was destroyed a long time ago, before the events of Fallout 2.

Consider the tradtion bound natur of them, I assume not, they will stick to there (ironically) very medievial themed system of anyone who can use a gun is anything from a Squire to a Paladin and anyone with technical knowhow is a Scribe or...a elder scribe.

In a sense they do. They have a division of labor Scribes, Paladins, etc.

As for Navy, Air Force, Army, Marine Corps type of division of labor, not so much. They are primarily an land force. They may have people who CAN fly or sail, but that appears to function more like an additional duty than a "branch" specialization.

The eastern fleet was destroyed But they built over 40 ships and recommissioned over 200 vertibirds.

Where are you getting those numbers? and Eastern Fleet?

Are we talking head canon here?

Those numbers seem a wee bit inflated and non-canonical. Having that much airpower is alot of power to place with one single faction.

If you talk to some people in Fallout 2 and Tactics they will give you the info plus the Fallout Wiki.

I am just going to go a head and call bull on that.

That or someone has seriously screwed with the wiki and you fell for it hard.

Im with Styles on this.

Go around the Fallout 2 brotherhood base and look on the Wiki.

Again I am calling bull. And please don't give me the old "play the game" remarks.

If you are getting such info from the wiki, again I am telling you that info is someone having a laugh, trying to fool people.

I have played Fallout 2 and Tactics both inside and out since they each came out. The info you posted is not true at all.

Sorry, but thehttp://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Vertibird fails to provide any such numbers. Its stipulated that the Enclave is percived to have the most birds, but aside from that, the info is rather scarce.

Lets go back to the whole purpose of the post and say that the airship is not confirmed to be Brotherhood.

The Fallout Wiki does a pretty good job of keeping most things straight, so it is generally fairly reliable, but...

But due to the nature of Wiki, I could go into it and change the story of the Brotherhood to them being Lizard People aliens infiltrating human leadership and having their main base in Hollow Earth. Now the people that police the Fallout Wiki do a pretty good job of catching things like that, but if you take Wiki as gospel, you are going to have to accept a Lizard People origin for the Brotherhood for a couple of hours (and if I get real lucky with my timing, days).

That is a logical fallacy. It amounts to "if". Because if You changed the wiki, and did not provide empirical data to support your... notion... that would be erased and replaced within hours. Im not argueing that such a change cannot be done, but I will argue that it will be changed rather fast.

The BOS does have chapters...

In FO3 you had the Order of the Quill, or something, which was the Scribes, and the Order of the Sword, which were the Paladins, and whatnot. Different chapter for different functions.

id say they have specialists that do coastal and naval patrols and airborne types but more like the us marines (one group but multi roles) than an air force,navy and army as separate forces

OK guys you keep forgetting that with Tactics, some of the overall story is cannon, its entirely possible that those may be Brotherhood airships, or Airships that somehow were restored/built on the East coast. given the time frame its entirely possible were dealing with a third group that "went native", or were taken over, or it may be a case of :

Brotherhood Paladin says"WE are the Brotherhood, and WE have the POWER ARMOR! not you...."

MIT Technerd says "Yes but we (pushes the enter button on his terminal) Wrote the source code your armor uses. . .(Life support turns the inside into a freezing drying vacuum reducing the Brotherhood to a bunch of powdered Testosterone in a Tin)

Brotherhood scribe says . "And now you know why I stayed a scholar"

or we may be dealing with a case of "When in Boston. . ..

It will be changed quickly as soon as someone with knowledge of the subject notices the faulty information. How long that takes is kind of up in the air. It is more likely that it would be discovered quickly today than a couple of months ago.

well the BoS technically do with the whole pen and sword thing they got going on