The ai is better than me at Lost Hills
After a few attempts at Lost Hills where I couldn’t handle the NCR war I decided to do Maxson with game rules to make sure hummingbirds win to be an ally. After beating Lanius the NCR war kicks off. I figure it’s a going to be bad and am hesitant to send my paladins so I send the three iron alliance mercenary units as volunteers.
It starts similar to how it does when I play. Lost Hills catches them by surprise and takes some early territory. My volunteers rush junktown and get some units encircled there. Then they get called back as I join Hummingbirds in a war against scrappers.
When I send my volunteers back, NCR has a huge bulge stretching from hub to Maxson with only a single tile connecting it so I have my volunteers push that tile and encircle the entire force. Then they clean up some encirclements around Channel Islands and two harbor. Then go up north to rescue some Shi that got encircled in the Navarro territories and push to Redding encircling all the NCR units in Navarro. And by then Lost Hills is marching on shady sands.
Maybe the ai just spams out divisions better than I do, but Lost Hills actually did really good in the war. They always had units to plug gaps in the line and pushed really aggressively creating openings that my volunteers could use to get encirclements. AI did better than I do. And I did way better than ai Maxson usually does by not dying to Hangdogs or Lanius. Lend leasing Summers and Twin Mothers bought a lot of time to build up. I actually got the Lanius event before the war started this time