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[Fallout] Just how powerful and large was The Master's army?
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No way of really knowing the exact numbers but considering people are still running into ex-members over 100 years after the army was created it had to number at least in the hundreds, maybe even over a thousand. Some groups even managed to wander as far as Illinois with apparently little attrition in their ranks. As for their strength, if left unchecked in Fallout 1 they easily overrun and slaughter every major settlement in the game. Their relative lack of technology would hamper their efforts against something like the Enclave, perhaps, but given that every last soldier in the Master's army was a genetically modified super mutant capable of fist fighting a man in power armor I'd say they could make up for it in sheer ferociousness and fighting ability. Think of the trouble the Brotherhood of Steel was having in the Capital Wasteland with the mutants there, but give them a strong centralized leadership (and more intelligence in general) and you can see the kind of trouble they would pose.