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Caesar from New Vegas was totally an annoying debate bro little shit nerd when he was a kid.
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Part of the story of New Vegas is that the Legion is stretching themselves very thin trying to take over Hoover dam and leaving themselves vulnerable, if they lose the battle of Hoover Dam in the canon it's pretty much implied they will be almost entirely destroyed.
And they're also not fighting the NCR, but an outpost of the NCR that has a difficult time with supply lines and is stretched thin. The consensus among fans is that, without the Courier's intervention, Caesar's Legion might be able to win the Second Battle of Hoover Dam, but the further they continue west, the more the NCR would kick their ass. If they actually made it to California, the NCR would beat them so hard, it would make the First Battle of Hoover Dam look like a victory to the Legion.
Yes, and no. The NCR is an imperialist power, and needs to keep control of Nevada and New Vegas (especially the food from the sharecropper farms, and the energy from Hoover dam) to keep the metropolitan government going. They might kick Caesar's Legion's ass, but the cost to the NCR could be so great that it might be just a pyrrhic victory, with the NCR collapsing shortly without the continued flow of energy and resources into California. That's why they're putting everything on the line to defend Hoover Dam.
That's sort of why the battle for Hoover Dam is pivotal though. Sure if the Legion were to ever actually fight the NCR, it'd get it's ass whooped. But the NCR has become reliant on the power delivered from Hoover Dam and will not do well without it. It'd still fuck up the legion, but it would also collapse.
That's sort of the irony of the battle as well: The Dam is at the same time pivotal for the NCR, but also not worth enough to actually dedicate any resources.