The Liberation of Anchorage, Alaska - Fallout 3 Lore

while exploring the capital wasteland we pick up a distress call on our pip-boy this is defender morale any outcasts listening on this frequency report to sector 7b Bailey's Crossroads this is a high priority message backup is needed at our location any personnel listening on this frequency please report it once we follow the signal to the outskirts of downtown DC we come upon an employee access only door to the Bailey's Crossroads Metro inside we find a ruined metro station where we have to kill a couple of ghouls taking the tracks to the next station we walk a short ways until we find the exit this takes us to Bailey's crossroads where we hear the sound of gunfire in the distance as we ascend the escalator a man and power armor stops us you've got a death wish walking through a war zone listen local if you want to be of youth help us clear the mutants between here and our base camp if not stay the hell out of our way this is defender morale one of the brotherhood of steel outcasts we remember that in fallout free the Brotherhood is split into two factions there's the Brotherhood of Steel proper which is led by elder Lyons they're concerned with getting purified water to the people of the capital waste and then there are the outcasts who rebelled against elder Lyons believing that he strayed from the original brotherhood of steel principles about finding and preserving technology defender morale is one of those outcasts we find these outcasts under attack by centaurs creatures that have hideously evolved and mutated from humans leaving the crossroads to follow the outcasts we enter some ruined buildings swarming with super mutants after a tough fight when all the mutants are dead defender morale finally has time to question all right local mind explaining what you're doing here we can tell him that we picked up his distress signal on our pip-boy how the hell did you hear my signal it's not broadcast on a standard frequency oh I see you've got one of those wrist mounted computers whoa Wow isn't that interesting now when he talked about my pip-boy he said so like a lion looking at it gets now I'm gonna tell him right now that he can't have it slow down there kid I'm not asking for it I think though that you want to talk to protector McGraw and on inside I'll let him know you're coming leaving defender morale we walk into the skeleton of a completely burned building to find an elevator leading to an underground bunker taking the elevator leads us to our pre-war compound called virtual strategic solutions here a conversation going on between two outcasts as our elevator rides to the bottom when we hit the ground we are greeted by defender sibling how are you keep your weapons holstered your hands to yourself and your mouth shut Tommy Sibley asks us to follow him and we wind through a series of doors in this abandoned underground vault as Sibley opens a rear door we enter a pristine facility seemingly untouched over the past 200 years of the war it's very reminiscent of a vault-tec vault we see all sorts of machinery all over the place and wires snaking around the ground defender Sibley leads us to a room to talk to his commander protector McGraw ish is protective like you asked Thank You defender give us a moment please sir I'm going to say again that I don't like this idea noted defender that'll be all yes sir so you're the one Morrell sent down I'll be perfectly honest I'd trust a wasteland er to shine my power armor and even that's pushing it but you do have that computer there on your wrist huh I can see now that Morrell made the right call maybe you can be useful after all we have a number of options to proceed they all ultimately have the same outcome so instead I'll use the intelligence option to say that they need me because I've got a pip-boy and that makes me unique so you do have half a brain that's good I'll keep it simple I need you and I need that computer of yours you help me out and I'll do what I can to help you this isn't an offer the outcasts extend to anyone so you really should think carefully about it you know these guys have been extremely rude ever since I entered their compound I think I'm going to rub this in their face a little bit I apologize for the gruffness of my then but as you can see everyone's under quite a bit of duress maybe if I explain our situation records indicate there's some high-value tech in this base but we can't get to it the armory is sealed by a blast door and we can't get it open we're pretty sure anyone who completes the facilities VR sim program will gain access but it requires a certain interface like your pip-boy I need you to go into the simulator and complete that program which will unlock the armory do that and you'll get a share of the gear it's the liberation of Anchorage Alaska from Chinese Communists it was a pretty significant event in American history according to our scribe I won't lie to you it's heavy combat safety protocols disengaged that means you die in the sim your body goes into massive cardiac arrest you're still listening so I'm going to assume you're interesting but time's wasting simply can take you to the pod olan we'll get you briefed if you want to walk away you're free to leave my men won't stop you watch it locals the liberation of Anchorage Alaska one of the defining moments in American history just before the bombs dropped it was this battle that introduced the tea 51b suit of power armor to the world and it was the use of that power armor that led to the United States successfully driving the Red Chinese out of Alaska this sounds like a fascinating simulation we follow Sibley into a nearby room where we see a familiar sight anyone who's used a memory lounger in the memory Dan or whoever visited tranquility Lane will recognize these virtual reality pods in this room is specialist Olin and defender Sibley introduces us knock knock Olin got a new best friend for you what yep let's hope you treat this one better than the last guy huh go to hell Sibley you know that wasn't my fault sure whatever just make some progress okay we're all looking to get out of here fine and get out and let me do my job oh great just what we need you're here to help fine then put this on get in the chair and we'll run the simulation these guys are all rays of sunshine aren't they we can respond with sarcasm she's just giving us the tough routine what is that some kind of joke look you're only here because McGraw says we need you otherwise you'd be out on your ass all right all on what exactly are you guys doing here the same thing we always do recover technology and preserve it making sure it doesn't fall into the wrong hands Macross hope is that whatever then here will give us a big advantage I'm not convinced but I'm on his side tell me more about this simulation I find your level of ignorance disgusting if not unexpected this sim had have been one of the most important of its time it's the liberation of Anchorage Alaska from the Chinese eventually the Americans win in and liberated the city but there were heavy losses this simulation trained soldiers for that engagement really you must brush up on your history all right well why do you need me well I suppose if you don't mind us hacking off your forearm we don't really this sim is looking for an external interface I haven't quite figured out why but there's no way to bypass it your pip-boy there is a match so since you're the one wearing it you're the one running through the simulation get it we learned later that the hacking of the forearm to get the pip-boy routine is not really a joke they might have tried something similar in the past but we'll get to that later she gives us the neural interface suit it's a tan bodysuit sort of thing with a whole bunch of ports with it equipped we can open the simulation pod step inside and get teleported to Anchorage Alaska [Music] as we arrived the simulation gives us a 10 millimeter pistol some ammunition and a few explosives we wake up to the sight of one sergeant Benjamin Montgomery standing before us I was a held a nasty fall you took when your chute bunched up like that I thought you were gone hope the other guys made I don't think their patrol spotted is coming in so at least we still have the jump on them you still have your gear so I'm going to let you make the call you can go in quiet a guns blazing we'll still meet at the rendezvous point inside as planned then we'll blow those artillery guns to hell just watch yourself Reds up here don't take prisoners good luck and with that the sergeant scales our rock face like a pro look at this guy my goodness if he is any indication as to the physical state of pre-war soldiers in the United States military I for one am gobsmacked no harnesses nothing he just scales the rock face alright buddy well I'm not going to take the hard way he tells us that we can either go in guns blazing or try to infiltrate using stealth so we don't really know what we're doing here yet we've got a little bit of information from Sergeant Montgomery it looks like we've dropped on top of a mountain range near Anchorage Alaska and our goal is to infiltrate a Communist Chinese facility to get rid of some big guns that are giving the United States and military some trouble we don't have a lot we've got a 10 millimeter pistol and a simple trench knife although the trench knife looks really cool and we have one way to go down a steep mountain path at length we find some catwalks and metal steps criss crossing around the rocks and it's here where we meet our first communist Chinese now and then their bodies to finish of course this is a simulation this is a really happening which means we can't loot their bodies for ammunition what's going to happen when we run out of ammo well we'll get to that in a minute nearby we find a red door to a cave outpost inside we kill some more Chinese soldiers the tunnel leads to an open cavern we can look up and see the forest above us and in the back we find a restocking station on the table our fragmentation grenades energy cells Micro fusion cells landmines and a health dispenser next to an ammo dispenser this unique functionality is how we reload and heal ourselves in this simulation no stimpacks no Kem's no looting corpses we are after all essentially playing a video game made by the United States military so naturally they're going to have their own restocking solutions outside of what we're used to in a Fallout game but this means that we've relied heavily on each restocking station and if we run out of ammunition or health between those stations were kind of boned we can't overcompensate by bringing our entire armory with us so let's use our ammunition wisely the cave is beautiful with excellent lighting that comes in from the outside as we kill more Chinese soldiers the cave gradually turns into a bunker up the stairs and rounding the corner we see sergeant montgomery kill a Chinese soldier and drop from the ceiling god damn this place is swarming with Reds I almost didn't make it didn't know the Reds were so handy with a sniper rifle so what's the situation we clear to blow the hell out of this place we can ask him for ammo or say that we're ready no sweat you're on point rookie and now he'll follow us heading out this door leads us to the anchorage cliff the wind is nearly deafening atop these cliffs whoa watch your step ISM that is a hell of a long along the way we've upgraded our weaponry we now have a sniper rifle and we can start to pick off some of these Chinese soldiers standing around the facility we find a big pipe covered in ice traversing a chasm connecting two of the bunkers we're crossing that pipe and here I thought I was the one with the death wish heading along the ice pipe leads us to a floating pod where we find more Chinese soldiers inside we can heal up and refuel and we find a locked door to field storage inside this pod we find the very first briefcase of enemy intelligence there are 10 in this simulation and will receive a reward at the very end if we collect all 10 so we're going to keep our eyes open but we also find a bit of lore here first on the table is a holotape named bombardment audio log begin this is captain Zachary Lloyd United States Army Anchorage Alaska security detachment we are approximately two hours into the Chinese assault on this outpost we are being shelled nonstop indiscriminately the entire base is under bombardment from the Chinese ships and they don't care who they hit all accounts indicate they've actually killed more of their own men than ours they just do not seem to care about their own troops at all at this rate the entire mountain will be a graveyard in less than an hour and then the Chinese will just move in and set up shop god help us god help America this is so great we not only get to relive Operation Anchorage but we get to learn how the soldiers who took back Alaska actually felt during this campaign on a table next to this holotape is a terminal filled with Chinese intelligence the United States Air Force has installed an auto transcriber which translates formal Chinese into colloquial American English however this transcriber has a 13% error ratio we can read the message and it's kind of garbled and we learned that for all of the corruption and bad communication and field errors that the United States military makes the Chinese are not immune to that they're humans too they make the same mistakes the Chinese originally took this outpost from the Americans by using their Dragoon soldiers they scaled the eastern cliffs the very cliffs that we're on and killed all of the soldiers at this base so whoever is writing this message is asking the Chinese military for anti-air surveillance and defense systems he's worried that if the Chinese dragons were able to use the eastern cliffs to take this facility from the Americans to begin with that the Americans might just as easily take it from them using the same tactics which of course is exactly what we're doing we just got dropped down onto these cliffs and it is from here that we're infiltrating the facility heading back outside we can go back across the pipe to continue on our way we climb across the clips across the catwalks and rope bridges killing more Chinese along the way until we arrive at another series of bunkers this leads us to a locked door to another field storage room inside we find the second piece of Chinese intelligence and another holotape this one named goodbye Molly I hope this tape gets to you some way somehow I don't have a lot of time but you need to know what happened to me the early reports weren't [ __ ] the Chinese are here as in they're invading Anchorage in force right now this is the real deal it makes Pearl Harbor look like an academy exercise I've never seen so many goddamn warships sergeant Lowery has ordered the platoon to assemble in the mess in 15 minutes the plan is to dig in on the cliffs and slow the Chinese advance until the civilian contractors can evacuate and then then we hold the line for as long as we can I talked to dirty CLO and Dallas and we all agreed surrender is not an option I never told you but that night in Cleveland on the ferris wheel that was when I fell in love with you goodbye Molly I I'm sorry this is private first class Henry Hodges signing out all right we're getting some real intimate stories here but is it just me or does it seem a little hammy it almost seems like something we'd see in a cheesy Hollywood movie the holotapes sure are making the military soldiers seem like martyrs self-sacrificial and heroes and of course they probably are we have no reason to suspect that these messages aren't genuine yet outside we can heal up and refuel to continue through this little pond at the end we see two defense bunkers guarding the main cliffside installation these are heavily defended and as soon as they see as the Chinese start to attack with my sniper rifle I had an extremely hard time trying to pick these guys off through the narrow slits inside those bunkers so instead we're going to backtrack in these pods we find a red door to a cave passage this is defended but not quite as heavily as the front door that we saw earlier heading up the stairway in this beautifully lit cavern we find a door that exits us a little bit closer to the compound here I thought this is going to solve my problem but it doesn't really at least from this vantage point the mountainside partially shields us from one of the defence bunkers but we still have to snipe at these guys through those narrow slits at length I just got fed up and ran in with my automatic [Music] once the simulated Chinese soldiers die and vaporize we can heal ourselves with a health dispenser and rearm inside this bunker with the enemy dead we can enter the main facility to the Chinese artillery outpost this brings us to a big storage facility it's a large vaulted space with many Chinese enemies who all open fire as soon as we arrived once they're dealt with we can explore on the ground floor on the eastern side we find a small nook with more Chinese soldiers and here we find a refueling station with all sorts of ammunition alternatively we can go back and climb the catwalks to kill more Chinese soldiers on the second floor and loot a Chinese assault rifle if we didn't have one already it's here that a stairway leads down to the room where we were at previously we can turn left down the passage to continue immediately to our left is a locked door inside this door we find a stealth boy the third piece of Chinese intelligence and the holotape invasion audio log begin this is captain Zachary Lloyd United States Army Anchorage Alaska security detachment approximately 23 minutes ago Chinese communist forces set foot on Anchorage soil despite our soldiers best efforts to prevent that landing as expected the Chinese have launched a two-pronged attack one aimed at occupying Anchorage proper and the other at securing this base thanks to our entrenchment US casualties here on the mountain are currently minimal but that's not going to last for long Chinese reinforcements appear to be endless it's just a matter of time before we're overrun we'll die today but by god we'll give those communists sons of [ __ ] a black guy they'll never forget Lloyd out mmm more of the fearless American Hero is this an accurate portrayal of what pre-war American soldiers were like it feels kind of staged but we learned something about the Chinese tactics here the Americans are still on the ground entrenched nearby the Chinese recently took this facility and are using it as a base of operations to continued their attack against the Americans here in Anchorage as we continue to explore our camera gets rocked by explosions and we see dust and snow fall down from the ceiling sergeant montgomery mentioned big guns that we are here to sabotage it sounds like the chinese may be shelling either nearby american cities or entrenched american troops continuing along we can heal and reload until we reach a large vaulted space here we see some chinese rushing to attack us as they get close we can pull out our assault rifle to put him down continuing along we can use the terminal to unlock a door which leads to a storage room here we can find a couple of grenades and the next piece of Chinese intelligence here we find a terminal with information that apparently the Chinese had not corrupted yet this is American military information these are the protocols for artillery stations the exact location were at is the Chugach overlook we learned that the military had installed intercontinental ballistic long-range heavy guns here and at last we understand why this must have been such an appealing target by the Chinese if they take this facility they get the guns which they are now using against the Americans harrowing Lee we read that in a live-fire situation the commanding officer here has the authority to fire upon the United States civilian transports who refused to provide ample identification we also learned that as a diversionary tactic during a Marshall evacuation if the military was ever forced to evacuate the city of Anchorage the big guns here would be used to discharge flares to simulate hostile exchanges to allow the military to retreat and finally we learn exactly what it is the Chinese are raining down upon the military this outpost was supplied with atmospheric scatter payloads these primed and loaded payloads are filled with regular ballistic ammunition so it sounds like the Chinese are now raining down traditional ballistic rounds upon the Americans continuing along we kill more Chinese and the Overlook is rocked by more explosions sergeant montgomery comments on this hmm looks like the commies to get low on ammo big guns maybe we didn't even need to come up here and yet in the room that follows we find a whole bunch of ammunition this is what the Chinese are firing from the big guns Montgomery says that they're getting low on ammo but it doesn't look like they're getting low to me heading up the stairs we find another locked door inside is another holotape overrun Omari I'm sorry I am so sorry I can't do this I'm so afraid mother I don't want to die oh my god I don't want to tell me we held him as long as we could I swear we did then TLO asked for a magazine and when I turned to give it to him a shell hit and he's gone mom he was there one second and then he wasn't his blood and times fast it's engaging oh my god he's all over here three please please let them leave can be system leave I just want to come home I just want to feel with you again I'm hiding now the Chinese are everywhere I'm a coward I was coward I know but I don't care if they find me I'm surrendering harrowing stuff would the Americans somehow fake holotape footage of a US soldier turning coward this one comes across as much more genuine the constant firing of these guns is incessant we have got to get out of this facility heading up the stairs and through one more room we see a giant elevator shaft and it's here where we come face to face to the Crimson Dragon that's how we do things in a coal they jumped out from nowhere almost like nightkin these soldiers were not wielding guns they were wielding swords and wearing the how glide Chinese stealth suits we learned from my video that I did on the south boy that the Chinese actually came up with stealth technology and the Americans copied it the Americans got a hold of one of these how wide Chinese stealth suits and reverse engineered the technology to put it in a portable self boy device but this came at a cost the American stealth boy is less reliable which is why the effect turns off after a while these crimson dragoon Hawkeyes self suits are much more reliable and we learn from the first terminal that it was these Crimson dragons that took the overlock to begin with looks like the Chinese left a few to guard the place climbing to the top of the gantry we can go up some stairs rearm and heal ourselves before going out a door to the artillery overlook and here we see the Chinese shelling in action the nearby big guns are firing upon Anchorage they're not just firing upon the military they're firing upon the entire town of Anchorage heading down the catwalks we have to clear some Chinese soldiers from some nearby bunkers once done we can sabotage these big guns by planting an explosive charge on the electrics once planted we have 20 seconds to run as far as we can after 20 seconds we hear a boom hell yeah take that you quit fastest sergeant Montgomery is as patriotic as ever there are two more big guns we must destroy and we destroy them the same way clear out the Chinese in the bunker and then plant the bombs tumbling down yeah when done this ends the shelling of Anchorage and we are to report to general chase the screen goes blurry and the simulation teleports us to a tent it is here where we meet the leader of this campaign general chase damn fine work you did taking out those guns damn fine no need to thank me I know a genuine true blooded soldier when I see one and that's why I sent you unfortunately while you were up there climbing mountains we were down here getting our butts kicked the Chinese decided to use our field HQ for target practice and damn near blew us all to pieces we lost some good men including my strike team commander Colonel Patterson I didn't call you down here for a pep talk and cigars you've earned yourself a field promotion soldier as of this moment you're taking over Patterson strike team and before you thank me you better wait and see what your mission entails there are three hardened targets that stand between us and the Chinese headquarters that's where your strike team comes in follow me over to the situation map and I'll bring you up to speed okay pay attention soldier I'm only going to go through this once we've set up our new field HQ down here the area is pretty secure now that the artillery guns are gone the first of the three targets we need to handle is their cámara Depot over here be careful on your approach you're going to have to get through the enemy camp on the way once you breach the perimeter of the Depot you need to take out both of the main fuel tanks your second target is all the way over here the Chinese has set up a listening post setting to the side of Calaway Ridge there are some abandoned mines along the roof so keep your eyes and ears open it's a great place for an ambush you need to clear the place of personnel so we can get our intelligence boys in there to start decoding once the first two targets are down the last obstacle standing in the way is their damn pulse field you need to cross it then cause it to overload so we can mop up the place with the t51 bees let me warn you now unless you have some sort of a death wish I wouldn't even go near the field until the first two targets are down lieutenant Morgan will be your eyes and ears for operation Anchorage so get everything else you need from him Uncle Sam's invested a lot of money turning you into a killing machine time to pay him back dismissed okay so we have three targets the first is to clear out a bunch of soldiers from a facility the second is to blow up a bunch of chimera tanks and the third is to disable a pulse field which is preventing soldiers in t 51b suits of power armor from attacking the Chinese headquarters what's interesting about this is how an EMP pulse field can completely immobilize an army wearing power armor is it really that easy to completely shut down somebody in power Armour activate an EMP pulse around them if that's the case why don't our enemies use mobile pulse guns one shot with a pulse gun can completely immobilize the soldier on power armor seems like a horrible vulnerability for a soldier wearing power armor now that we have our orders we have to talk with lieutenant Morgan so you're in charge of Patterson Suicide Squad huh yeah very funny lieutenant hey all I got to keep me warm out here in this freeze box is my sense of humor anyway I'm here to give you a hand with intelligence and logistics whatever you need I'm your guy tell me more about the Chimera tanks put simply it's a co-opted mining rig that's been changed into an armored vehicle bigger and tougher than any tank we have in our arsenal the Chinese fitted the vehicle with multiple weapons reinforced the armor and outfitted them for long-range you two fuel tanks to destroy one in the central courtyard of the facility and one near the rear gate this place is one tough nut to crack not only do you have the chimeras to contend with but the place is heavily populated by infantry okay what about the listening post where we have to clear the Chinese oh this place is a honeypot let me tell you not only is it's swarming with regular ground troops but they put their best guys in there as well the Crimson dragons I hear those guys start training as soldiers right from the womb so watch yourself in there well the Chinese army not only uses the listening post to spot our forces and relay babel information they also use it for air-traffic control if we can get a hold of that facility we can stop them from bombing the living hell out of us any chance they get great more guys and types with swords all right what about the post field well it generates a grid-based localized electromagnetic pulse anything mechanical that goes through there gets all its circuits fry the only thing that can punch through their defenses there are the t51 bees so you can see the problem there's a bunker the Chinese have set up to monitor the area somewhere beyond the emitters an operator in the bunker can deactivate the field to allow their own guys to pass through unharmed if you can get to the bunker you could set the field to overload and blow it out permanently if you take down the pulse field will send the tea 51b shock troops into blast through their defenses and then it's on to the headquarters all right so now that we understand our mission let's explore this tent on one of the tables we find a holotape named I'm ok Molly I'm ok everything's fine I was found but not by the Chinese it was the captain he found me cap says everything will be ok it's been a few hours and I'm tired but I wanted to let you know I'm all right I'm in the refinery now resting cap brought me here we snuck around the Chinese and made it in it's the last place they have it take him I got I got shot Molly in the shoulder and back when cap and I evacuated the mountain it's not bad just a few bullets souvenirs right cap Jeb me with a bunch of meds so I can't feel much of anything anymore it patched me up pretty good too still bleeding but that'll stop I can hear cap and the others out in yard fighting so much gunfire they'll kill those Chinese bastards then we can all come home well it's good to hear that he made it out alive but we need to move on with our mission inside Patterson's terminal we can create our strike team we can choose from a number of different types of soldiers each one consumes a different amount of markers we could have four infantrymen because each of those only consumes one marker or we could have only one sentry bot because the sentry bot consumes four markers once we put together our team we can go around to the requisition terminal to choose the gear we want to use we have quite a few different package options a fireteam package a closest alt package a sniper package and a heavy weapons package it all depends upon the gameplay you're most comfortable with once done we head outside the tent we see the strike team that we ordered materialized in the field before us and it's just then that United States jets fly in formation above us oh what a patriotic beautiful sight ah gives me goosebumps the flag waving there in the breeze and the gorgeous jets flying by heading to our strike team we find another than sergeant Benjamin Montgomery well looks like we're working together again sir general chase assigned me to the strike team and thanks to your promotion I guess I'll be saluting you from now on well why did I get promoted and Montgomery didn't we did pretty much the exact same thing we can pass an intelligence check here to try and bypass the simulation simulation what the hell are you talking about this is as real as it gets GI and thanks to you a lot of guys are still vertical those artillery guns were found in a crap out of our soldiers but Montgomery is part of the simulation he doesn't realize this isn't real sound said we have to play along all on a day's work there Benjy all in the day's work he says yes sure every day I wake up and single handily infiltrate a commie infested base on a suicide mission with a role model like you our boys are going to turn into killing machines don't worry Benjy will make officers out of them all that's the spirit buddy now on to bigger and better things hey well everyone's ready to go kick some Connie ass sir what are your orders from here we get to choose two of the three targets we want to attack first the listening post with the dragoons or the Chimera Depot with the tanks let's do the listening post first and send the strike team to wait for us at the mining town outside the outpost yes sir on our way we'll wait for you by the mining town this camp is really fun to explore in one of the tents we see US soldiers trying on and fixing up their tea 51b power armor these are winterized suits of power armor and they are gorgeous it's fascinating to see how they would be transported hanging by chains from racks like this then we go and talk to the quartermaster this is the guy we give our requisitions holotape to and he'll give us the gear that we ordered everything appears to be in order here you go inside his tent we can find more ammunition in weather tents we find dr. Adame she gives us five psycho and then we see a bunch of wounded soldiers we find a tent with American GIs exercising but let's get on to the mission looking at our pip-boy we'll see a map of the area off to the east we see the cliffs where we were and north of us we see four points we're going to go to the listening post first so we head outside the barricades to see a huge oil Oh pipe sneaking through the battlefield it's trench warfare like in World War one even though we destroyed the cliffside guns the Chinese are still shelling the battlefield from their headquarters if we try to go through the trenches we don't get very far we see you as soldiers dying all around us and as we emerge on the opposite side we get blasted [Music] so the lieutenant was right we really do have to do the other two missions first before we go disable the pulse field so instead we follow sergeant Montgomery to the mining town just outside the listening coast moving on in we see that the Chinese have set up on top of shipping containers and are shooting at us from some broken houses they send their attack dogs at us and they even shoot at us with missile launchers and one of the blasted out houses we find another piece of Chinese intelligence clearing these ruins is a tough fight but once done we have to travel through a narrow gauntlet to get to the listening post from the shipping containers on either side we get sniped at by Chinese dragoons these invisible soldiers have sheathed their swords and are now using sniper rifles after they are dealt with we find the bunker at the end of this gauntlet inside we find a whole bunch more dragoons the next piece of Chinese intelligence is on a shelf beneath some stairs leading up to the second floor fighting through the second floor we come to a stairway that leads to the third floor which leads to a big empty room now inside this room we have to kill a couple of crimson dragons but there's also a non-hostile Chinese technician however we can't complete the quest without killing this guy but I didn't feel too bad killing him he has after all just a simulation stepping outside we find a couple more bunkers filled with Chinese snipers running hog life suits and once they're dead who succeed in clearing the Chinese listening clothes we then get teleported back to HQ or we can reform our strike team or choose a different weapon and ammunition loadout heading outside we see an interesting scene the press has arrived to take photographs of the boys in white sir all right boys I'm going to make you famous get yourselves into a heroic pose okay that's it just like that hold still excellent the Capitol Post thank you who knows maybe someone will turn this photo into a statue one day all right boys try not to die out there okay god bless you and God bless the US of A a little bit of humor there because they did indeed turn that photograph into a statue which we find in the Capitol wastelands now going back to the quartermaster to change our gear we can actually pass a speech check to have the guy give us some weaponry off the books well you earned a lot of respect with the soldiers for what you did to those Chinese artillery guns tell you what take this extra gear with you requisitions to be damned if anyone asks it fell off a truck he gives us a Gauss Rifle this is why we've been seeing all of those microfusion cells all over the place the gas rifle and this simulation is an energy based sniper rifle but it's pretty powerful and it comes in handy talking to Montgomery we can then send the strike team to the ice camp just outside the Chimera Depot the mining town is now secured sir yes sir on our way we'll wait for you by the ice camp following the strike team we weave our way through the shelling field until we arrive at a bunch of tents which make up ice town the goths rifle came in very handy here and having a mr. guts in the strike team paid dividends we just plowed through the enemy in the western tent we can refuel rearm and it's here we find a terminal these are more Chinese communications that can be Auto transcribed and it's here that we learned that the Chinese deployed spider drones all over the battlefield they dropped them from an airplane and the spider drones parachuted down once they hit the land they self deployed and when the drones see Americans they jump up and crawl towards them then they explode it's also interesting here that the Chinese describe the Americans as American aggressors even though the Chinese are on American land out of this camp we clear some more snipers from sniper towers and enter the second camp in the first tent we come upon heading east we find the next briefcase of Chinese intelligence we're well on our way to having them all once the camp is completely cleared we can go towards the Depot clearing the Chinese through this gauntlet we arrive at a cavern that leads to a frozen lake bed and as we get close we see the spider mines they leap up from the ground and start to walk towards us the squadron you bring with you is going to make clearing these much easier they can be tricky to hit right for the scopes heading west from the frozen lake we go down a snowy trail to kill more of these spider drones this leads us to the fortified wall of the depot where we can take out some Chinese snipers opening a gate we crawl inside and access a nearby elevated pod to find the next briefcase of Chinese intelligence we see the chimera tanks on display as the lieutenant told us they look like they've been scratched built from mining equipment but they look pretty neat after clearing hostels we find the fuel tank behind the chimeras and deposit an explosive charge like we did with the artillery guns we have 20 seconds to run to a safe distance before the bomb detonates heading north west to fund the next one we round a corner to be attacked by a working chimera it has a mounted laser that it uses to decimate my strike team thankfully my God's rifle did wonders against the thing but even though that chimera is down we still have to destroy the fuel tank taking out our sniper rifle we take out some of the other snipers from the nearby bunkers and finally plant the last explosives that should be the last of them and the last of the bombing runs on our guys thanks to you I'm going to order our men back to the field HQ see you there the simulation then zaps Benjamin and yourself back to HQ finally we need to disable the pulse field with our strike team and Montgomery with us we head into the trenches we see Chinese artillery shells sailing to the sky above us American soldiers to our right and left die as they get struck with artillery and then the Chinese meet us in the trenches hi in the first storage trench to the northeast of the entrance we find a captive American soldier which doesn't make sense Montgomery made a point to tell us at the very beginning that the Chinese don't take prisoners anyway we can release this guy and send him on his way on a barrel next to this guy is the ninth piece of Chinese intelligence one more to go continuing along we kill more Chinese until we leave the trenches only to enter another trench these Chinese are equipped with flamethrowers this is the Chinese Inferno unit I'm on destroy they proved to be very deadly these are the Chinese trenches and around every corner we kill a Chinese dragoon using their how Bly suits to hide at length we get to a bunker and we have to snipe off the snipers through the small windows slit at length we find a fortified bunker room inside the trenches here we find another Chinese terminal with more messages we can translate we learned that the Chinese had bad Intel they were told that the Americans weren't ready to deploy the t51 B's and yet they learned too late that the Americans do have the t51 B's and that the shock troops are heading this way once they got this Intel they deployed pulsed defense technology assuming that a fault that they identified in a prototype of the T 51 be that they captured still existed a fault that made the suit of armor vulnerable to EMP shockwaves so does this fault still exist in the t51 B that was given to us shock troops we'll find out soon the bunker continues winding this way in that we find Inferno units how guai snipers and assassins and ceiling mounted machine gun turrets attacking us from bunkers after we clear the trenches and the bunkers the shock troops arrive wearing their beautiful winterized p-51 suits of armor they accompany us to the field outside the headquarters and as soon as we get close we see the pulse field in action one of the troopers foolishly wandered beyond the barbed wire into the range of the pulse field immediately the pulse field fries his circuitry making his power armor unusable apparently this must have also killed him so a according to this simulation there is indeed a Fault in the 251 be making it vulnerable to EMP blast after clearing turrets and snipers from one more bunker we find an elevated pod to the east inside we find the final piece of Chinese intelligence in a suitcase and a switch that turns off the pulse field this is Montgomery the field HQ we are go for the attack sending the tin can I repeat we are go for the attack we see the shock troops charged across the field towards the factory I'm assuming that this must have been an oil refinery that the Chinese attacked and turned into their own headquarters it's heavily defended with giant machine gun turrets but they pose no threat for the shock troops who use fat men with mini nukes to destroy them this clears the path right up to the main door inside our camera is frozen and we watch in horror as a Chinese officer with a sword executes one of our troops Niemann the ship get done Nieman who a cycle don't don't walk into a mia transfers a gun general jean way the men in charge we have three choices here we can pass a speech check convincing him that the battle is lost and that he shouldn't throw away his dignity in which case he commits suicide watch useful we're done even taboo the other two options give us the same result we can say I'm going to kill you so much in which case you attack or you can say it's over surrender and lay down your weapon in which case he attacks Jeff Bhushan he is devastating He willed an electrified sword and is relentless he ignores everybody else and zones in on you I exhausted all my gosh rifle ammunition and went through two other guns just to bring this guy down what's done general chase appears to congratulate us that'll do soldier stand down with the generals death our boys can secure this refinery and be on their way to Anchorage proper you helped pave the way for taking the city back from the red soldier good work you've also gone above and beyond the call of duty by recovering important enemy Intel and exposing their plans to us again well done soldier that'll complete this portion of your training report to your superior for debriefing and your next assignment dismissed and with that the simulation ends the screen goes blurry and we wake up exactly where we were just a few hours before inside the simulation pod now the whole point of going through this simulation was so that the outcasts could access the VSS armory after we are successful protector McGraw congratulate sus never would have thought a savage could do it good job making it through that simulation all you have to do now is open the armory and as agreed you get your share feel free to take whatever you want our records are right there's plenty for all of us oh man I'm getting giddy what could be in this armory but but before we go and get our loot let's explore the rest of this bunker who knows if we'll have another chance behind one of the locked doors we find a disturbing Sene we find the corpse of Gary 23 from vault 108 his arm has been severed and his pit boy removed oh my gosh these outcasts found this poor Gary 23 kidnapped him and killed him trying to remove the pit boy so that they could use the simulation that's why they didn't kill us when we came down they already tried and it didn't work the owner of the pit boy had to be the one using it oh these devious outcasts poor Gary 23 in another room we find a working terminal this is the VSS research terminal it's been here since the bunker was made maybe we can learn more about this simulation inside we learned that a team at VSS is the one that created the operation Anchorage simulation but they worked with the military specifically with general chase that's right the guy in the huge white coat whom we met inside the simulation he worked on all the details he also took control of the team tweaking the simulation here and there to the point where this researcher says without any shadow of a doubt this simulation is divorced from reality he says that even though he's never seen any of the classified military reports there's no way that this simulation can be accurate it's no way it happened like that he says he says that Chase is scrapping versions of the simulation for even the most petty of reasons version 736 99 was scrapped because chase decided his face didn't look quite right he ends by saying that there are concerns the man is losing it no one wants to confront him because everyone is scared of him the military did this previously with none other than West Tech we all remember West Tech and this company virtual strategic solutions is scared that the military will do the same take over their company he ends by saying but really what's the point in running this sim over and over any tactical data was mined months ago they had to scrap the simulation again after general chase said it didn't feel right but he was actually referring to the hardware to the chair itself not the simulation if we try to access the program updates it says access denied but there's no terminal we can hack or password or key we can get to access this so this must be cut content from the terminal so after all of that after everything we just went through was this all a lie general chase himself was the man directing how this simulation was made if anyone was going to stuff this thing with pro-american propaganda it's going to be general chase no wonder those hollow tapes seemed insincere no wonder it sounded like we were listening to a bad acting extra in some Hollywood World War two movie general chase made the Americans look amazing all of the soldiers completely heroic how much of this can we really believe now there's a lot of loot in this bunker weapons ammunition a place to sleep all sorts of stuff you can do the operation Anchorage DLC right out of vault 101 that's what I did with this character this is the first thing I've done with this brand-new character I walked into the Bailey metro at level 1 and I walked out of this simulation level 5 or so so it's a great place to hit early in your gameplay to get some higher level loot but you know what we've kept these outcasts waiting too long they want me to use my pip-boy to open up the armory heading back to the armory we see that the outcasts view us in a different light after our success in the simulator never would have thought a savage could do it it better be something good behind that door well what are you waiting for let's get this door open and then using the terminal on the wall we can use our Pip Boy to unlock the door and lo and behold the item on display is an entire suit of t51p winterized power armor that's right even if you were level 1 when you start this simulation finishing it gives you the perk power armor training so that you can step right into the suit of T 51b power armor as soon as you open the armoury doors but we can't get too excited because as soon as we step into the armor a fight breaks out between McGraw and Sibley oh right McGraw this has gone on long enough damn it Sibley now's not the time no sir now is the time there's no way in hell I'm letting this local walk out with anything I've made it quite clear that it's not your call a deal's a deal sorry sir but it is my call now I'm not taking orders from you anymore treason Sibley really you're not gonna get away with this no you're not going to get away with giving up the tech we risked our asses for burn in hell traitor I'll see you there and with that defender Sibley in the other outcasts turn on protector McGraw and Oran now we have a choice we can kill them all or try to protect protector McGraw but we have to be fast because if the outcasts kill McGraw they turn on you if you kill Sibley fast enough you can then go to each of the other outcasts to dispose of them specialist Olin and protector McGraw will fight with you against the outcasts if you succeed and they all die you can then loot their corpses and you have access to their power armor you can walk away with three suits of outcasts t45 power armor and their helmets if you live protector McGraw thanks you you saved us simply would have had the upper hand if you hadn't been here we'll be here for a while cataloging all the tech if you need anything you come see us you may not be one of us at your the next best thing and so does specialist Olin she also becomes a merchant who can repair your armor normally I'd never consider this but I probably wouldn't be alive if weren't for you I'd say that warrants an exception which can come in quite handy if your repair is too low and then we can loot the rest of the armory we find a ton of stuff in here including a flamer the gosh rifle that we got to use in the simulation and even Jing ways shock sword that's right a unique melee weapon we find a mini-nuke some Chinese stealth armor a missile launcher and a ton of ammunition and Kem's so how much of this simulation was true and how much of it was a lie here we go into this thing hoping that we get an honest glimpse at the liberation of Anchorage Alaska the most famous fight United States soldiers in power armor were ever in and then we learned that it was all a lie well it can't all be a lie after all in this armory we find a suit of 251 B winterized power armor exactly like we found in the simulation a Chinese stealth suit how gly suit just like the dragoons in the simulation war and Jingwei is sword the very shocked sword the other committed suicide with or used to fight you with all of these must be true they're not lies if we find them in the armory after the simulation and if all of those were true then I'm willing to bet that there may be other seeds of truth in the simulation some of the more fantastic things may not be true sergeant Montgomery able to scale a rock wall while wearing a full suit of combat armor yeah maybe not so much but there were a lot of little details like the Chinese messages on the terminals that we can translate and some of the snarky less patriotic commentary some of the soldiers we meet have all of that might be true and yet we walk away without really knowing what about the Chimera tanks were they real we may never know but this is the closest we'll ever get to truly knowing what happened on that fateful day the day that the United States of America took back Anchorage Alaska from the Communist Chinese and that ladies and gentlemen is the full story of the liberation of Anchorage Alaska we see this story in the operation Anchorage DLC for fallout free this is such a fun DLC to do a spell at younger levels you can walk right in even at level one and since it's a simulation you don't have to have any gear or perks speaking of perks the rewards you get for collecting all ten pieces of Chinese Intel suitcases is a new perk called covert ops which adds three new skill points to lockpick science and small guns a pretty worthy perk and yep that's right now I'm doing fallout 3 content I would love to hear your requests in the comment section below did you like this video would you like to see more like it please leave 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Channel: Oxhorn

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Keywords: oxhorn, fallout 4, operation: anchorage, the liberation of anchorage alaska

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Length: 59min 40sec (3580 seconds)

Published: Tue Jun 13 2017