Hines says New Vegas will be home to not just two main factions, but a bunch of other
smaller factions as well that can either help or hinder the player's progress depending on how they are interacted with.
Not exact matches
But it's clear that Gregorius,
as Democratic majority leader, is not enamored with a county legislature that has more members of his own party seated (13 - 10), yet is controlled by Republicans in league with a
small Democratic breakaway
faction that, together elected Democrat John Parete
as its chair.
The Ashanti
faction within the party sees the total dominance of the
smaller Akyem block in the Akufo Addo Administration
as an existential threat and has vowed to fight back.
They inevitably hand power to
small parties
as well
as to
factions within large parties — and thus to party whips.
Yet many modern scholars view his final battle — Clontarf in 1014 —
as mostly a civil war between Irish
factions, with the Vikings playing only a
small role.
These
small but vocal
factions within the unions have exerted
as much pressure
as possible against the standards process, which they see
as unwise and destructive.
Gamers need to carefully consider their alliances and their enemies
as they seek to complete
smaller objectives which will allow them to consolidate their starting provinces, deal with
smaller factions, and finally defeat the other major rivals to the title of Augustus and the position of first true Emperor of Rome.
Two other
factions, the Red and the Orange,
as well
as a much
smaller army, the Black, also contribute to the story.
In the end,
as long
as the Republican Party remains hostage to
factions holding to such fossilized notions, my guess is it will be increasingly marginalized, given the reality that Americans of both parties, outside a
small bubble, are very enthusiastic about the responsibility, even the patriotic duty, to use a great gift — oil — more thriftily.