Completed Let's play Fallout Tactics (Completed & Repaired)

[Cassidy]

In face of recent developments, an heroic sacrifice would make a lot of sense now.

 

[spekkio]

Our current objective / destination:

We blow up all barricades:

And continue north. Two RPG-specialists show up:

They hit the APC hard. We should take them out before our ride blows up!

Charlotte and root neutralize the threat:

root does the repairing again

We continue east, taking out another mutie

Three others show up shortly after. One to the north, one close to us (melee)

And another with RL to the south

He helps us by blowing his melee friend to pieces.
It takes ages to take him out, be Charlotte does the job finally:

The one to the north goes down much quicker (Charlotte again)

root tries to fix the APC but has to GTF In:

Neinmaske solves this problem:

More enemies visible:

We start with the mutie to the south. Wolf KOs him (that's the only thing guys with Hunter Rifles are good for ATM), Bro finishes the job:

Another melee unit moves close, making Neinmaske happy

Wolf drives the APC close to the trenches and kills another mutie

She continues the tour around the trenches, root kills another camper

We can see two enemies to the north

And... the fort to the west:

Suddenly, another mutant shows up in the trench, armed with Browning M2 (possibly the best Big Gun in the game)!

Neinmaske takes him out before he blows up our ride single-handedly

The mutant hiding in the bunker to the north hits APC with a rocket, but Charlotte takes him out shortly after that

Neinmaske kills another melee mutant in the trench. We end the battle.

Bro shows that Sniper Rifle + Sharpshooter Perk = Win, by attacking one of the mutants in the fort

TBH that's the first time this happens to me, I didn't know that attacking them from such distance was possible.

Suppose if you give me the sniper rifle, with my high PE and Luck I can try and score some mutie eye-hits on the fort

I thought that you're kidding when I read this...

Compare root's accuracy with Hunter Rifle:

Bro continues raping both mutants. Suddenly, another strange thing happens: two melee mutants try to attack us, moving close to the bank of the radioactive pond:

Maybe storming the fort will be easier than I thought?

Bro kills first mutant:

Yet another strange thing happens: two mutants armed with Brownings move closer!
Bro cannot hit them ATM, though...

Another mutie shows up in the trench close to us

His appearance brings me an idea - maybe we should take advantage of the infamous "burst bug" ourselves?

Neinmaske cannot hit the enemy in the fort:

Enemy is within range of Neinmaske's gun (if he wasn't, there would be red X mark instead of 0% info), but Neinmaske's BG skill or PE is too low for a successful shot.
But if Neinmaske takes this shot anyway, shooting at enemy with 0% chance of success...
He will hit ALL other units within the range of his gun:

Voila! Burst bug in action.

Of course, most of the time WE will be the ones being shot, so...

There was a terrible, terrible burst (or auto?) fire bug in this game when I played it. I believe I was at the final official version. If it's still there, it goes like this: shoot a burst at a target. Chances of hitting the target calculated normally, everything's fine. If any other secondary targets happen to be in the cone of fire, however, said secondary target(s) seem to be hit 100% of the time with every bullet, which usually makes them just explode... even if they are way too far to be effectively damaged by (supposedly inaccurate) burst fire.

This works for both you and the enemy, and as an upshot if becomes very important to space your guys so that no two are within a cone of fire, even when you're at ranges where this wouldn't otherwise be necessary.

Good luck with that stupid bug that causes free death for all with burst attacks miles away. This mission is where it starts kicking in badly.

I don't know how developers could've left this bug in the game despite the patches.

Monkey kills the mutant in the trench, burst bug claims its first victim:

Bro kills the 2nd melee mutant. Both mutants armed with Brownings are still out of range:

We end the battle, Wolf moves the APC east. Both muties decide to follow us:

Now they're in range of Bro's Sniper Rifle and Neinmaske's gun (as long as he takes advantage of the burst bug).

Of course killing them takes fucking ages. Luckily for us, root KOs one of them at some point.
Wolf kills the unconscious enemy after a while (the floating text is messed up as always)

Second enemy tries to withdraw, but Bro takes him out eventually

Phew! That should make the final part of this mission much easier (which still doesn't mean easy) - we killed five mutants, two of them equipped with Brownings.

Charlotte leaves an APC to check out the chest in the nearby bunker. It turns out that we've forgotten about someone:

Our crazy loli was damn lucky once again!
This situation shows that using Aggressive Mode when dealing with supermutants is not such a great idea - we're unable to kill them with one shot but they're more than able to do so...

Charlotte hides in the bunker, Neinmaske punishes the rapist:

Wolf heals Charlotte. Charlotte carefully opens the chest (Monkey's previous fuckup learned us something).
Of course this chest isn't trapped:

Let's test Charlotte's luck once again. I hope you didn't forget the mutant in the trench equipped with Browning M2...
Charlotte casts Invisibility and moves into the trench:

The rest of the team covers her from the APC.
BTW - some guys from Talon Squad are still alive:

Charlotte reaches the dead mutant after a while:

She goes back to the APC with her precious loot. The problem is, Neinmaske cannot use it (it requires ST 9).

We will have to wait for Power Armors (or new recruits) to be able to use it.

The team continues east, reaching the survivors:

Paladin Emerald Solo

It's about fuckin' time some backup got here.

Paladin Solo, Commander of Talon Squad. It's not pretty here, Brother. They're dropping bombs like it's the Great War!

My troops are toast. I'm taking what's left of my unit and pulling out. Don't pull any punches with these muties! I watched one charge face first into some rough crossfire and laugh off the pain!

Pull that APC up and tend to my soldiers. I can walk, but my squad needs medical attention. I'm not leaving until you get them on their feet. Hope you've still got a medic.

Wolf heals all of them:

Second objective completed:

We loot the place, finding another sniper rifle. There's only one man worthy of this weapon:

We continue south, doing some mine cleaning on the way:

root fixes our ride, Wolf brings us close to enemies once more - the ones to the north from the starting point

Neinmaske uses burst bug once more, revealing more mutants:

Bro KOs one of the mutants behind the barricade, Monkey kills the melee one

Wolf brings the APC close to the barricade, Charlotte and Neinmaske kill both mutants

We should move to the extraction point before advancing further to the north. Third objective completed:

All units level up. SP distribution:

Bro - EW

Charlotte - Throwing

Neinmaske - FA

Wolf - Sneak

Monkey - Repair and FA

root - EW

At this moment we can leave the mission with all objectives completed.
But that would be totally POPAMOLE of course.

 

[Ulminati]

Not a single dead soldier AND Charlotte survives with 1hp 4hp again? How many reloads did this take?

 

[spekkio]

That was 4 HP, you fuckin' unbeliever!

 

[spekkio]

We go back to the frontline. Three mutants show up. Neinmaske kills 1st of them:

Charlotte and Monkey take out the other two

While looting the place, Neinmaske finds another hidden mutant. Luckily for him, the mutie does nothing, except dying:

ITZ time to move north

Two mutants can be seen in the trench

One of them is armed with Browning
Neinmaske carefully loots the area, forcing a melee mutie to show up. Our snipers take him out:

The team concentrates on clearing the minefield, blowing up a shitload of mines

Finally, we reach the SE corner of the trenches

The time has come to proceed to the final part of this area (Bro and Wolf will participate in the first phase of attack).

Charlotte takes some grenades with her

Neinmaske equips a RL

The team reaches the end of 1st trench. Charlotte finds another mutie nearby

She flushes him out using a grenade and blows his brains out when he tries to reach the rest of our team

Charlotte continues north, finding another hidden mutant. Bro joins her, moves east and north, finds another mutant and retreats undetected

Charlotte attacks 1st mutant with grenades

Bro shows himself trying to catch enemies attention. Its 2 vs 2:

Charlotte pops out too. She is hit by grenade, but her bravery pays off:

Bro, Charlotte and the mutant play hide and seek for a while (Bro acts as bait, Charlotte hides herself after every attack). Finally, the mutant leaves the playground:

We loot the area, Charlotte goes back to the main group

And continues to the next part of the trench. Two enemies there:

Neinmaske and Wolf join Charlotte, Bro attacks the mutant and hides (fucker is equipped with Browning, so direct attack would be a suicide)

Charlotte does the same. I was certain that Neinmaske was out of mutie's range. He wasn't:

Despite serious wounds, Neinmaske shoots the mutant (and hides). Wolf heals Neinmaske.
Using Bro as a MOLE (he keeps switching position from Crouch to Stand, mutant keeps missing him), Charlotte and Neinmaske kill the mutant:

The entire team continues west - there is another mutant nearby

Our guys kill him without taking any damage

We're close to the fort now. Three mutants armed with Brownings are guarding the main entrance:

Charlotte loots the nearby area

And moves into the final part of the trench. There's some survivor there:

Fucker. Luckily for him, he was found by our sapper. Charlotte deactivates the explosives.

Burke

*cough cough* They got Barnaky.

He saw me hiding and he was screaming for me to kill him, but I couldn't bring myself to do it.

I had a clear shot, but I know if I'd fired, those damn muties may have seen me.

Some mutants found me anyway after that. Those bastards were laughing as they tied this rig to me.

God help me, I should have taken that shot! *sob*

Poot sucker dies right after that:

Charlotte joins the rest of the team. We should prepare for the rape final part...
And if you think that our chances are high... well, think again (screenshot from my "lets use 5 units and see what happens" try):

From my previous playthroughs I remember, that:

1. Main entrance is mined and heavily guarded
2. Advancing past the bridge without sneaking is possible, but only using one unit at a time (to avoid the burst bug)
3. If the mutie runs out of ammo, he will try to come close to our units, so generally speaking, the longer the battle lasts, the better our chances are
4. The whole thing needs a lot of luck
5. Using one unit at at time is the best idea - there are many mutants at the fort and most of them use Big Guns - burst bug is deadly there.

Anyway, stay tuned for...

The Battle of Fort St. Louis

 

[Gerrard]

I seem to recall it was possible to repair vehicles from inside, or was that a bug that got fixed?

 

[hoverdog]

no deaths yet? that's a big fucking decline.

 

[Unkillable Cat]

It's cool, the deaths should start rolling in from now on.

 

[spekkio]

Due to overall greatness (SG, Sneak, Throw) Charlotte will go first.

She takes with her a shitload of grenades and a sniper rifle:

Charlotte leaves the trench and... another weird thing happens: one of the guards leaves his post and moves close to the bridge!

WTF? He's severally wounded? Probably friendly fire / mines?
Charlotte attacks him, knocking him out after a while. She tries to move closer, finds and attacks another one

This one hides. Charlotte continues west, finds another mutant:

She concentrates fire on the KOed one. Some invisible fuckers keep shooting at her, missing all the time:

Charlotte kills 1st mutant after MANY turns

She switches to the 2nd one:

He keeps shooting back, missing all the time. After a long while, he runs out of ammo and rushes in Charlotte's direction:

Bad idea:

Charlotte switches to shotgun and takes him out:

She goes back to the rest of the team. We end the battle:

WTF? Over 4000 EXP for killing two guards?
(We really should leave now, I bet my ass that it was all the EXP for "clearing" the fort)

Charlotte replenishes her 7.62 ammo and goes back to the frontline. She sneaks past the bridge

and continues east, finding locked chest

She continues north. There's a single mutant there, who survived Bro's sniping. Charlotte throws him a 'nade

He does the same

Charlotte throws second grenade, mutant counterattacks.
Since he hits her much harder than she hits him, Charlotte switches to her trusty shotgun:

She heals herself and continues north. Fuckers are aware of her presence (she cannot sneak):

Both these bunkers are probably guarded. Charlotte goes north, stands up... and nearly dies:

She hits the ground, heals and switches to grenades.

Enemy shows up after a while

Charlotte shoots him using her shotgun. Another grenade gets the job done:

Its time to check out another bunker. Too bad that Charlotte still can't sneak...

She tries to carefully crawl west...

Rest in peace, Sister Charlotte. You're gonna live forever in our hearts...

 

[Gondolin]

She will never be forgotten by her bros.

 

[Ulminati]

RIP sister Charlotte, herald of the coming incline!

 

[spekkio]

Due to overall greatness (SG, BG) Neinmaske will go second.

Some invisible fuckers attack him right away, but keep missing. Neinmaske crawls the same sad path that Charlotte followed...

He unlocks the chest in the corner

And grabs some shitty gun (XL70E3 Enfield). He continues north, finding another mutant standing like an ass. Let's kill him!

Alright! Neinmaske reaches Charlotte's (still warm) corpse:

And takes her stuff (Stimpacks, Sniper Rifle and Shotgun)

Crawling east is out of the question. Neinmaske tries something else - he changes position from Prone to Crouch. The result:

He shoots Charlotte's killer twice:

Let's try something else. Neinmaske goes to the place where Charlotte was throwing grenades from. Maybe we can snipe some fuckers from there.

He pops out, gets shot (-40 HP), heals himself, switches to Rocket Launcher. First shot isn't successful (he gets shot for -75 HP)

Neinmaske heals himself, tries another two blind shots

Two mutants killed!

Neinmaske carefully continues south, gets shot by another mutant. He counterattacks:

This fucker has only 14 HP, but I'm not sure if Neinmaske can take him out using Sniper Rifle

Neinmaske tries to withdraw, gets shot once more (thank god he healed himself before that)

He circles the bunker counter-clockwise

And attacks another two mutants:

The 1st one hides, 2nd one gets KOed

After MANY turns, Neinmaske kills him

He exchanges fire with the almost-dead mutant again

Motherfucker! Only 11 HP but he's still dangerous!
The one to the south shows up again, Neinmaske takes him out:

It time to finish off the almost-dead one. Neinmaske takes one step to the east, and...

See you in the Vaterland, Bruder Neinmaske!

 

[marooned]

Nooooooooooo!

She was so young and nuts..


Awesome (and sad) update. You just lost the two best members of the team due to nasty criticals. The aproach was good but they got the bigger guns.

You should post the statistics of the fallen to see how awesome they were and how many moles they popped.

 

[spekkio]

Check out the 1st post.
Charlotte will be sorely missed - she was an exceptional build...

 

[bandaid]

That's what she get from stepping out of kitchen... (Hm? Sob sob... What's this? My eyes are sweating? Sob sob... Weird...)

 

[spekkio]

Despite his relative shityness (SG only, one good weapon) Monkey will go third.

Using him in close combat would be a suicide homicide. He should concentrate on sniping enemies from a distance.
There's no point in crawling now. Let's use standing position for him. This tactic pays of fast. He finds Neinmaske's killer

And takes him out

Monkey carefully reaches Neinmaske's corpse

And takes his stuff (Stimpacks and Shotgun)

He goes into the bunker, finding two Neinmaske's victims

Well, what's left of them... He continues west clockwise, reaching another bunker

It's empty. During his horizontal exercises, Monkey finds and attacks another mutant

This one hides, another one shows up

Monkey kills him after a LONG fire exchange

He crawls out of the bunker, finds 1st mutant

The mutant finds him too

Monkey changes position and takes him out

Our Monkey-boy carefully checks out the whole fort (battle didn't end automatically)

But there are no more enemies in the area!

I'll try to kill Monkey in most entertaining way possible

Let's do some mine cleaning. Monkey cleans the main entrance to the fort

And joins the rest of the team

Wolf heals him. We did it!

(With ONLY two casualties)

Our team collects ALL possible loot (it takes them a while)

Loot:

• 7x Browning M2
• 7x Rocket Launcher
• 255 .50 Cal Ammo
• 2x M60
• 27x M249 SAW
• 2x Sniper Rifle

Loses:

• Sister Charlotte
• Bruder Neinmaske
• 1x Metal Armour Mk. 2
• 1x Metal Armour

We re-equip and move onto the Exit Grid. Mission Ends.

General Dekker

Welcome back, warrior.

The Elders have assigned me to be your commanding officer until we have further news of General Barnaky's whereabouts. Your former superior was a fine general, one of the best that I had the honour to serve with. Losing him has been a heavy blow to us all.

The Super-Mutant army destroyed a total of six full squads of our Brothers. This is a large setback for the Brotherhood, since those squads contained some of our finest veteran soldiers. We shall not forget our Brothers who fell in the line of duty, nor shall we let these feelings get in the way of our duty.

Rest assured that Intelligence searches for the General, even as we speak. Until we have a lead on where the enemy is keeping him, you will be receiving all mission briefings from me.

Go rest, warrior. You deserve it. After you are done recovering and grieving for our comrades, report back for your next mission.

You are dismissed.

Let me quote General Dekker once more:

We shall not forget our Brothers who fell in the line of duty, nor shall we let these feelings get in the way of our duty.

We go back to Bunker Gamma

No new recruits in the Center = no character editing.

Let's give a warm welcome to our two new members sisters: Phoenix and Juggalette (a.k.a. Lette)

Shortcuts feel strange now - F2 was ALWAYS Charlotte not Wolf, F3 was Neinmaske not Monkey.

Girls show up at perfect moment, especially Lette (ST=9):

We move all our stuff from Hummer to APC.

Damn, that's Neinmaske's Buffout! He didn't even had a chance to get addicted to it!

Feel free to get him addicted to buffout

Bro buys some medical supplies (14 Super Stimpaks), two Metal Armors Mk. 2 and two Sniper Rifles (for Wolf and Monkey), and some shotgun ammo

He sells all but two Brownings - I don't think there's enough .50 ammo in the game to use more of them. It's time to fix Phoenix and Lette using savegame editor.

Toughness

It requires LK=6 so:

Phoenix picks up Dodger, Explorer and Pyromaniac perks:

Even after bringing all her Tagged skills to 100% she still has 105 SPs available:

She increases Lockpick to 60% and Sneak to 68%:

Due to higher Luck, Lette is much better shooter Perk-wise. She picks up BRD, More Criticals and Sharpshooter, increases BG and Sneak to 100%, invests rest of her SPs into Steal:

I've also hacked Bro a little, giving him a free perk - spending someone's perk on Scout would be a waste...

Bro goes to speak with General Dekker

Once again, we have two missions available.

A) Jefferson

General Dekker

We have suffered another setback, Brother. Most of our Intelligence Operatives were killed in the surprise ambush last night. I can scarcely believe it myself, but we now have to accept the possibility that the Super Mutants are familiar with our covert methods.

What is left of our intelligence ops, has discovered the location of one of the Super Mutant's staging areas. The mutants have a, semi-permanent military base in the rubble-strewn city of Jefferson. Additional reports describe multiple generators are supplying power directly to one large structure. Our scribes believe that this structure is a weapons manufacturing plant.

You have two objectives to complete here, warrior. The first is to render all of these power generators permanently inoperative. Without power, their factory is useless. Your second objective is to force the mutants into a rout. If we can get them running, they'll lead us to either their main base or to General Barnaky.

Gather your squad and leave immediately.

Dismissed!

or

B) Kansas city

General Dekker

At ease Brother.

Scouts have followed one of the fleeing mutant groups to Kansas City. As we suspected, we have discovered another mutant base. But, an assault on this compound will have to wait, for our scouts have made quite a discovery.

One of our scouts stumbled upon the ghoul town of Gravestone. What little is known about the town suggests that it was a major nuclear launch site before the war. The peaceful ghoul population, which resides there, are suspected to be directly descended from the original silo staff.

They are seeking our help due to Super Mutant attacks. These attacks mean the Super Mutants are after something the ghouls have. This leads us to believe that "something" might be an intact nuclear bomb. I shudder to think what the Super Mutants would do with such a destructive device.

You will go to Gravestone and talk with the ghoul Bishop. Assure him that we will defend him and his town in exchange for the very bomb coveted by the Mutants. An attack is imminent and it will take some time to get enough squads to fully safeguard the town. Your squad must hold off the mutants until Smear and Shadow Squads arrive. Protect the ghouls of Gravestone and don't let the Bishop die. His knowledge of the nuke will be all we have. We will send Repo Squad to collect the Nuke when the Bishop consents.

The Quarter-Master will supply you with some Rad-X and Rad-Away. We advise you to monitor your radiation levels at regular intervals.

Dismissed.

Of course, the choice of next mission is yours.

DISCUSS!!!

We will also need two new recruits to fill up our ranks...

Post full Character Profile. Don't be that guys:

 

[Ulminati]

A) Jefferson.

Why would we help the filthy ghouls again?

[edit]

By the way, how's the recruitment queue look? How many brave BROs will have to be streamlined before Warcupine joins the fray?

 

[Azira]

Wow. Hadn't expected to survive that mission.. Too bad that Neinmaske and Charlotte died. Guess that means it's Monkey's turn next.

One vote for Jefferson.

 

[Gondolin]

Mission A. I'd volunteer, but I'm too lazy to post a full profile.

 

[spekkio]

By the way, how's the recruitment queue look? How many brave BROs will have to be streamlined before Warcupine joins the fray?

1) Warcupine
2) Eklek
3) Gramps
4) free slot
5) free slot

 

[lightbane]

Long live to our fallen brothers, your deaths will not be forgotten... Guess I'll have to do a character profile then... Not now, though.

 

[Unkillable Cat]

Even though Kansas City is my favourite mission in FO:T, I'm gonna vote for Jefferson, even though I always did it in the opposite order. Doing Jefferson first gives you more time to prepare (and gain XP) for the showdown in Kansas City.

For the puritans here, you're kinda forced to help the ghouls in Kansas if you want to finish the game, as the nuke is important.

Oh, and listen to the voice actor for the ghoul Bishop - it's Frank Welker, using his Megatron voice to preach to the masses.

 

[Ashery]

Looks like I'll be the first ghoul applying

Unfortunately, this build requires level 12 to be of *any* use, but I doubt four others will die before you complete the next mission or two.

Name: Ashery
Race: Ghoul

Stats:
3 Str
13 Per
4 End
2 Cha
6 Int
8 Agi
13 Luck

Traits:
Gifted
Fear the Reaper (Better than finesse in the long run, even if you only grab "More Criticals" twice to make up for the loss.)

Tags:
Small Guns
Energy Weapons
Last one is open to whatever is needed, but I'd prefer Sneak.

Perks:
Weapon Handling (The reason the build requires level 12)
Action Boy
Bonus Rate of Fire
Sniper
The rest is open to whatever you feel to be the most effective way to boost my sniping. I'm not familiar enough with the mechanics to state if the 20% better criticals is better than the 5% increase in crit chance.

I'm curious as to why you're stopping skills at 100%, though. I thought for sure you still gain benefits from increasing them beyond that point (Although it gets expensive as hell fairly quickly).

Edit: Forgot to vote in the original post, so I'll throw in another recommendation for the non-ghoul mission, as that's the more difficult of the two.

Just checked the wiki as well and it appears the Sniper perk is broken completely in FO:T. Still think it's a better idea to grab More Criticals instead of Weapon Finesse, though.

Since I'm so damn indecisive, here's an alternate build:

Stats:
Str 6
Per 10
End 4
Cha 2
Int 6
Agi 8
Luck 13

Traits:
Gifted
Finesse

Perks:
Action Boy
Bonus Rate of Fire
Better Criticals
More Criticals (As many ranks as possible, but get the other three first).

The rest is the same as above.

That 38% crit chance is just too tempting, hehe. Although I'm not sure how much of an effect the lost Per will have.

 

[ComradeCommissar]

Damn, this is getting good, though only 2 deaths was actually a bit better than I thought it'd end with. If we ever get down to it, I'll put down a profile to aid in the good fight.


Anyhow, I vote for Kansas City.

 

[Cassidy]

OK. You deserve this. My final post, honest.

It's not what you look like. I actually think you are more attractive than SMA, whom I don't consider attractive at all. I just can't bring myself to trust you. And the problem isn't even with you, as such. I mean, I wouldn't trust myself. I'd say I'm about your equal in bullshitting most of the time. (OK, I'm actually much better, but I still don't trust you enough to go through with it. Tragic, I guess, but there it is.)

VD: Blah, blah.

It's the world that needs help. I'm just fine, thank you.

Gone.