Fallout 3/Awesome


 * This Troper has a moment that ranks as a Crowning Moment of Awesome for the Animal Lover Perk: This Troper was around level 16, just randomly traveling up north, having just discovered and left the Repbulic of Dave when he discovered just what a Deathclaw was when one of them suddenly started running up to attack. Due to stupidity and selling lots of stuff, this troper had plenty of stimpacks but no weapons other then a 10mm with no ammo and a chinese sword with a Melee skill of 15. So he starts running around in a circle, using stimpacks every 3 hits and doing a little damage with his sword, finally getting the Deathclaw to about half damage when his stimpacks run out...and his sword breaks. So as this troper is ready to accept his death, Animal Lover Rank 2 kicks in, as 4 Rabid Dogs and 2 Yao Guai come together and assualt the Deathclaw from all sides, all but one Dog giving its life to kill the Deathclaw and save him.
 * This Troper had one very early which actually made me feel like i had accomplished something for just starting. So there I am leaving The Family base through a different station opening that i had entered and immediately I see the red enemy indicator on my pip-boy compass. Now at this point I only have some weak wastelander armor, a Chinese sword, a hunting rifle, and a weak sawed-off shotgun so I'm obviously not the biggest badass of the the wastes yet and have only killed mirelurks, dogs, mole-rats, and bugs cue the enemy turning out to be this tropers first encounter with the infamous Deathclaw. Not knowing what I'm up against I immediately go into VATS and start shooting the sawed-off in the hopes of getting a crit, but no luck and it closes in immediately after so I pull out the Ancient Chinese sword and go to work hacking away hoping i can at least get back to the tunnel and to my surprise i actually do get a crit with the sword and lop his head off. At the time I was just happy to have survived but later I had found out i had killed one of the worst monsters of the waste if not the game with just a sword that and the Deathclaw gauntlet i got afterwards was just the icing on the cake for this troper while being only at level 3

"Probability of mission hindrance : ZERO PERCENT! Battle analysis: Red Chinese Victory IMPOSSIBLE! Democracy is NON negotiable! Embrace democracy, OR YOU WILL BE ERADICATED!"
 * First time, no any time you use a Fat Man and watch the glorious explosion afterwards.
 * And the MIRV is a Fat Man in freaking shotgun mode. It goes without saying that it is exponentially more awesome than a Fat Man.
 * The Experimental MIRV classes as a Crowning Gun of Awesome. No matter what you decide to use it on, it always leaves your mouth watering.
 * Even better, a GATTLING MIRV mod. http://www.fallout3nexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=6253
 * As the name implies, testing the weapon in different situations in the game and launching or even glitching your own character by firing into the ground turns The Experimental MIRV into it's very own Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer.
 * Nuking Megaton and watching as the Evil Points just roll in.
 * Mothership Zeta has something even better: at one point you are in the ships laser control room and can !!!!! Needless to say, the destruction caused by this blows Megaton away.
 * Well, figuratively speaking. Not literally. Best anybody can tell the laser was aimed somewhere near Toronto.
 * And since this IS all taking place post-apocalypse, Toronto may be a lifeless, glowing crater anyhow.
 * The entire Liberty Prime sequence. They tell you that you and your allies will be leading the assault and the robot will be sent as back-up. Nuh-huh, the robot is leading the assault and your job is to find a good spot from which to view the epic Curb Stomp Battle. Nothing stands in his way, or at least it doesn't stand for long before he blows it up.

"Penelope Chase: "Don't try anything funny, zombie." Argyle: "Why, miss Chase, there isn't anything funny about... "THE EAGLE CLAW!"
 * Shortly before said event:.
 * That's not the helicopters, that's the base's self-destruct sequence activating once you leave..
 * Better yet, Deathclaw cage, which you probably will have picked up the key for without realizing it. Hilarity Ensues since it's considered friendly to you.
 * Also, if you have a high science skill.
 * The sandbox quality of Fallout 3 allows players to create their own crowning moments of awesome. For example, a mission involved rescuing some children from a slaver base. One option was to negotiate entry into the base and act covertly. This troper shot the unsuspecting guards at the front gate, took some chems, and proceeded to gun down all the slavers in an epic firefight and rescue the slaves. At the end of it all, this troper had his character drink some Nuka-Cola amidst the smoldering wreckage left in the battle's wake.
 * And you get GOOD KARMA for this, since all the people you shot were sick and twisted beings. Too bad they don't respawn.
 * This troper's standard operating procedure when fighting Yao-Guai (large mutated bears, probably of the rabid variety) was to use Nuka-Cola grenades. Highly destructive grenades created from a premium version of the aforementioned beverage. Of course, the better stuff was rare, so I ran out eventually, and the next time I saw a Yao-Guai, which was soon after emptying my hunting rifle/assault rifle/various other weapons' ammo into a group of enclave soldiers, I figured I was gonna die anyway. I took a half-destroyed ripper - a chainsaw knife - some buffout, and proceeded to gouge gaping holes in the thing with my nonexistent close combat skills while circle strafing. Remarkably, I won. Then I turned around and got mauled by the thing's best friend. My favorite encounter in this entire game.
 * Killing a yao guai should aggro every yao guais in a thirty yard radius.
 * Paradise Falls is widely regarded as one of the best gunfights in the game. For me, it was the place where I learned NPCs can pick up weapons off the ground. After shooting Forty and Eulogy, I turn round to see Star Paladin Cross gunning down slavers left and right with a looted minigun.
 * This troper walked into Paradise Falls wearing a sherriff's hat and the Regulator Duster, armed with a .32 pistol, Old Painless, and Dogmeat at his side. Justice delivered, Old West style.
 * Further anti-Slaver example. This Troper, tasked with clearing out the Lincoln memorial of slavers for a group of escaped slaves, proceeded to do so while wearing Lincoln's own hat and rifle (both scrounged from the nearby museum). How many other games allow you to channel the angry spirit of Abraham Lincoln?
 * This troper dressed as Abraham Lincoln as well, even going as far as to name his character after him. He then marched on Paradise Falls, but did it while playing the patriotic music on Enclave Radio.
 * This troper did the same, topping it off by actually modeling the character to BE Lincoln, suit, hat, and all. I wasn't sure what was more awesome, watching Lincoln mow down slavers with a mini-gun in VATS, or the fact I happened to do this on his BIRTHDAY. Unintended awesome!
 * This Troper took the MIRV and 64 Mininukes to Paradise Falls.
 * This troper showed slaver-boss Eulogy Jones exactly how Karma works: He whipped out the Mesmetron, the slavers' own enslavement tool, and beamed Jones in the head. The mesmetron has one of three effects: Dazing the target, making the target go crazy, and making their head explode. While that last one would have been a fitting end, it was much more satisfying to see him gunned down by his own companions after trying to shoot them. Duing the confusion this troper took the opportunity to snipe the minigun-guard, and then mopped up the rest with his trusty Terrible Shotgun.
 * First, take advantage of the hat-stacking glitch (using the Chinese Stealth Suit and two Hockey Masks) and the fact unarmed damage doesn't cap. Raise your skill to around 10,000 or so. Put on the Ghoul Mask and Linconln's Hat. You are now Zombie Lincoln, Godpuncher. You are capable of one-hit killing anything in the game. Including Super Mutant Overlords. Now go punch out some slavers, or better yet, shoot them with Lincoln's repeater for wonderful irony.
 * This troper tried to sneak in with the Chinese Stealth Armor, but I was caught anyway thanks to my horrifically low Sneak skill. Finding myself crouching on the ground, with two very angry guards pointing guns at me, I mumbled an annoyed "ah, dammit," then equipped my Winterized T-51b armor and proceeded to go after the Slavers with a Laser Rifle and Electrified Chinese Sword. When I was finished, there was nothing left of the bastards but piles of ash and scattered gore--not a single intact body out of the whole bunch I finished my little sojourn by shooting the legs off of the Slaver's cook (his name's Frank by the way) with a 10mm Pistol, then, as he tried to drag himself away, slicing his head clean off with a Ripper. The kicker? I managed to complete the quest just before in-game sunrise. Cue celebratory breakfast of Fancy Lad Snack Cakes and a Nuka-Cola.
 * "No, seriously. Fuck You."
 * When escaping from Vault 101 at the start of the game, instead of coming to talk to me Officer Gomez went over to club some radroaches. Big mistake. At the same time time, Andy activated his flamethrower. Result: 3 medium rare radroaches and one very crispy Officer Gomez. Oh. Andy. YES.
 * This troper simply dies against Deathclaws if Fawkes isn't around to save his ass, and when wandering away from The Republic of Dave one day without my Super Mutant buddy, I accidentally get into an encounter with one. Figuring I saved recently anyway, I decide to play a game of destructive irony. I equipped a Deathclaw Gauntlet, and somehow, without using stimpacks, managed to kill it. This crowning moment of sweet, sweet irony has stayed with me for a long time.
 * Deathclaw Gauntlets ignore your opponent's armor.
 * When this troper's character was young and at a low level, Deathclaws managed to kill her with two strikes and she never could run away from them because DAMN they are fast. Then, light came when she got a large supply of frag mines. Whenever there were Deathclaws near, she'd place a series of them on the ground and atract the hateful beast towards her. Two stepped mines later, the Deathclaw would always be reduced to a pathetic limp, because one (sometimes both) of it's legs crippled. She'd then shoot the bastards with her nearly useless chinese pistol from a safe distance, just so they could have a slow, humiliating death.
 * This troper's recruiting of Dogmeat involved walking toward the fight between the badass wolf-dog and a bunch of Raiders. As he ran over, the cars all around Dogmeat went up into nuclear fireballs, with Raider body parts flying everywhere. Finally, he arrived to find a bunch of blazing nuclear fireballs and destroyed Raider corpses, and Dogmeat calmly walked out, completely uninjured. My immediate reaction: "You aren't just man's best friend, you are man's most badass friend too."
 * One time, I was fighting a raider and had to reload my gun when the guy had one bar of health left. Mid-reload, Dogmeat comes flying in quite literally (he was floating a few feet off the ground, probably because of the nearby stairs), jumps into and kills the guy, and lands on the ground growling and ready for more. Dogmeat may be pretty useless in the later levels (Broken Steel aside, which makes him damn near unkillable), but he kills things in style.
 * During the Tenpenny Tower quest, you have to make a choice about who to help and how. You can convince the residents to allow the gang of Ghouls to live with them, let the Ghouls in through a security door in the basement, or just go and blow the heads off the Ghouls. This troper did not know that taking any of the first two routes would lead to the Tenpenny residens being slaughtered at the hands of the ghouls. Roy Philips is such a motherfucker that he just does that sort of thing. Yet, this troper found himself down path number two without really realizing what it would entail. After all, the only Ghouls in Roy's hideout where himself and two of his friends, and a few hostile Feral Ghouls which Roy said he hated. So this troper was surprised to find Roy waiting outside a barred window by the security door with a pack of Feral Ghouls waiting to attack the tower. With no other viable course of action, this troper proceeded to VATS headshot Roy with the Missile Launcher. Once of the best slow-motion replays ever.
 * Any video where "the annoying man" gets executed is both awesome and hilarous at the same time. And even though you said agreed to escort him, you don't lose any karma at all if you kill him!
 * Best moment for my character was when I succeeded in killing 3 ambushing Deathclaws, a Albino Radscorpion (think Giant Scorpion+ Super Mutant Behemoth) and an Enclave Patrol. I used the Gauss Rifle (a sniper rifle that knocks over the enemies on a critical hit) and some Nuka-Grenades. First, I Nuka-grenaded the Radscorpion to oblivion with my 6 grenades, then I knocked over the deathclaws with leg-shot criticals, and then killed them while they were down, then I headshot out all the enclave. I was left on about 1 health bar when my radar detected an enemy, i spun around in VATS and saw the mouth of the deathclaw that had survived and had jumped me. Fired, and killed the deathclaw in mid-leap. I then surveyed the carnage for about 10 mins until it all that had happened registered. and the funiest thing is that i had put off the Liberty Prime quest because i thought i would need to level up cause it would be hard... that encounter was probably as difficult as the entire main questline.
 * This Troper's Moment of Awesome comes from killing all the Deathclaws in Old Olney with his Dart Gun. Sneak Attack Crictals to the head and they go down quietly and quickly. Or using Jingwei's Shock Sword on them.
 * With an unarmed specialist character, snuck up on a Deathclaw, and just as it was turning around, hit it barehanded so hard that it flew up and backward over Old Olney fence.
 * After completing Operation: Anchorage, you get access to the Chinese Stealth Suit, which essentially grants you infinite Stealth Boy use while in sneak (crouch-walk) mode. Stealth Boys cloak you and makes you damn near undetectable, and coupled with a high Sneak skill you can literally hit people with your fists and only get a "Caution" on your sneak indicator. While it is pretty fun being able to get guaranteed Sneak-crits on enemies with a Sniper Rifle with their allies not even noticing (despite talking to the victim as the shot hits), nothing is quite as fun as equipping the Deathclaw Gauntlet, sneak up on anyone, anywhere and send them flying dismembered away with a single hit. And no one ever notices as long as you one-hit kill them! Hilarity ensues as you enter Megaton Predator-style, kill people without a trace of ever being there, then eat the corpse with the Cannibalism perk. You can then proceed to stand up and drag the body through town, and all you will ever get as a response is a dry "Are you having fun with that thing?" or an annoyed "Stop doing that."
 * This Troper is deathly afraid of Deathclaws. They're wicked fast, deathly silent, hurt like hell, look like something that came out of Mars City's Delta Labs, and can open doors. During Fallout 3's Broken Steel storyline, he was tasked with recovering a Tesla Coil from a hidden facility underneath Old Olney. Old Olney is of course crawling the kriffing things, and the quest requires the player to journey into the godsdamned sewers which are, of course, full of those freaks. It seemed like he was about done with the game, until he looked at his inventory and realized he's been through almost the entire game and hasn't used a single Mini-Nuke that he'd been collecting. Have you ever felt the joy that comes with the sound of a Deathclaw taking a nuke to the face underground?
 * Fawkes is awesome in general. Not only was he planning on breaking you out of the motherfucking Enclave base with a Gatling Laser he apparently got hold of in a few hours for that express purpose, but he's also capable of taking down anything on his own. This troper took him into the Citadel's main court and used the console to spawn 5 Behemoths at his location. He beat them all. Seeing as Deathclaws ignore damage resistance, 50 or so of them were then spawned. Fawkes was pushed backwards by their sheer mass, but otherwise he proceeded to wipe the floor with them, he and his Gatling Laser. Finally, God Mode with the Experimental MIRV, the fucking Nuke shotgun. Each shot equals 8 Mini-Nukes, where 2 or 3 are usually enough to take down even a Behemoth. Bye, bye, Fawkes. Not so. The yellow bastard managed to survive around 30 or 40 shots to his face before he finally died. At no point did he stop firing his Gatling Laser.
 * Fawkes versus a dozen mercs and some raiders taking potshots with hunting rifles? They're all fucked.
 * After . Reaching the door, I figured that there was more resistance in store before I was home free. Outside, I brace myself for the mother of all fights as I see Vertibirds. Then... I hear a roar, as the air is filled with Gatling Laser fire. Oh HELL yes!
 * At the end of the Broken Steel quest "Who Dares Wins" you get to ! This is of course after you fight your way through the entire base full of Enclave troops. The most satisfying moment is when you realise just how royally screwed they are now after causing you and the wasteland so much trouble.
 * If you're evil, though, you can turn the weapon on the Brotherhood of Steel, wiping them out as well. Laughing maniacally as you wipe out the scant remnants of their organization is optional.
 * Optional? No, you must do so.
 * Managing to find and put together all the junk you need to create all of the makeshift weapons like the bottle cap mine or deathclaw gauntlet, then testing them all out on a group of raiders or other annoying foe. Nothing beats killing Demonic Spiders with the random trash you find lying around the wasteland.
 * Particularly so for the Rock-It Launcher, is there anything more rewarding than slaughtering your foes with the cuddly wuddly death of a thousand teddys.
 * Using pre-war PAPER money?
 * The finale of the Mothership Zeta DLC, where you engage in a space battle with another alien ship.
 * Especially when the little girl you've been traveling with treats it as if it were the climatic finale of an epic sci-fi TV series/movie.
 * This troper managed to make one for himself completely by accident. After deleting all of the save files that he had except for the most recent one, he decided to start a fight with Fawkes, just to see how far he could get before dying (it should also be noted that at the time the troper's character was at level 23, at which point Fawkes is essentially a Physical God). He did this a few times, and each time he would go back to the one save he had and do it again. While doing it for the fifth time though, he accidentally saved over the file instead of loading it, thus leaving him with a single save file where he was stuck fighting the single toughest companion in the game. Deciding that it would be easier to stand and fight than to create a new game, he managed to kill Fawkes using a double-barreled shotgun, Dogmeat, and a couple of stealth boys.
 * This troper finds nothing more cathartic that going to Old Olney armed with nothing but a Dart Gun, a Chinese Pistol, and a huge stockpile of 10mm ammo, and proceeding to cherry tap the Deathclaws into oblivion.
 * What about going in, unarmed, with 100 unarmed skills, Grim Reaper's Sprint, 10 strength, and paralyzing palm? And slaughtering every single deathclaw one by one with your bare hands? Just use V.A.T.S, and nine out of ten times, the paralyzing palm will knock the deathclaw to the ground and, well... paralyze them. Then, you're free to beat the deathclaw to death. With your bare hands. Repeat 20+ times for all the deathclaws there. Memetic Badass rampage if there ever was one (just make sure to bring a few stimpacks so you can survive until your action points recharge in case paralyzing palm doesn't hit).
 * Argyle killing Penelope Chase, the former leader of the slavers:

Penelope Chase: "Gaaaahhhh!"

Herbert "Daring" Dashwood: "My god, Argyle! You ripped out her heart!""


 * Due to the customisation and freedom of the game many players can create their own Moments of Awesome with a bit of creativity. As such on his second play-through this troper took a different approach with the Lovecraftian zombie infested Dunwich Building. Storming the place in a frontal assault armed with a Ripper and sawn-off shotgun.
 * There's something poetic about taking out Enclave soldiers, equipped with the highest level of technology, with jury-rigged Wasteland weapons like the Rock-It Launcher, the shiskebab, or (my personal favorite) the Nuka-Grenade. Imagine a soldier having to drag himself back to Autumn, having to explain that his squad just got annihilated by a can of soda, and a high velocity teddy bear.
 * This Troper reached the final battle with Autumn, crippled, out of ammo, almost out of health, and having nothing but Sarah and Fawkes to help him out. Fawkes and Sarah killed Autumns guards while I fought him with my fists. I knocked his laser pistol out of his hand. Desperate, I grabbed it and fired the shot at Autumn... it scored a critical and literally blew him to bits. Topped off by Sarah calmly saying "Well, that takes care of that."
 * Killing Mr. Burke before he can shoot Sherriff Simms in the back, while not as completely awe inspiring as some of the above events, was awesome beceuse it revealed to this troper that taking a good path did not mean taking a boring one.
 * This troper was assaulting a Raider base once, pretty much wiped everything in it with his Xuanlong assault rifle.
 * I had just ran out of ammo for my rifle, when the LAST Raider came running out of a room with a pool cue. I took out my Blackhawk (unique Scoped 44. mag.) and without aiming shot him in the head once. He fell to his knees, blood spurting out of his nonexistent head and slowly fell forward with the pool cue falling through the railing. Moment of Awesome indeed.
 * A couple for me:
 * Realizing that with the right perks (xenotech expert, Ghoul Ecology, Superior Defender) a 100 in energy weapons and the alien blaster you can go around one shoting those damn-damage-reduction-ignoring-mutant swamp folk.
 * Beating the alien captain to death with a poison shovel.
 * Successfully persuading the overseer of vault 101 while wearing sunglasses, sexy sleepwear and drunk on whiskey.
 * Not sure which is better: Watching a randomly spawned Albino Radscorpion kill a Super Mutant Behemoth, or (thanks to Paralyzing Palm) beating a Behemoth to death with one's bare hands.
 * During one of my good playthroughs, I decided to get Outcast Power Armor as soon as possible, then store it away for later (i.e. not even starting the main storyline yet); the catch was, I wanted to do it WITHOUT killing said Outcasts. Striking inspiration, I tagged along on one of their random Wasteland patrols (2 Outcasts and 1 Robobrain), deciding I'd help them out for easier XP and items, and to wait until an enemy killed them to loot their corpses. About an hour later, our little group was minus an Outcast and the Robobrain, and the remaining Outcast had taken a few hits already. Near the Super-Duper Mart, a combo of a Raider attack force and an Eyebot (after the Outcast took a potshot at it with his SMG) bore down on us. After dispatching most of the Raiders, he took cover behind a broken-down pre-War bus, and naturally, all sides continued firing regardless. Soon, the inevitable happened: the bus did what it did best, and I feared that I'd have to mop up the rest myself before claiming my rewards. But much to my amazement, the Outcast calmly walked through the inferno, blasting his SMG on full auto. He managed to single handedly waste every enemy, and I was flabbergasted... until he dropped dead from continuing to stand in the flames. Seeing my Badass companion gone so soon after such a glorious moment, I stood over him, saying a few solemn words and having a moment of silence... right before swiping his Power Armor and leaving his corpse in its skivvies, in the middle of a burnt-out bus.
 * During one of this troper's playthroughs, he popped up from the subway station just outside Hubris Comics in sneak mode, and his HUD is littered with red markers. Sneaking up, he sees only three Talon Company Mercs to his right, nothing yet to his left. He snipes out one merc with a hunting rifle, and the other two immediately snap into action, one of the running to the left in a pincer attack. Quickly dispatching the merc to his right, he turns to kill the left one... only to see the dead merc gunned down by seven muties, one with a minigun, running up the ramp. Adrenaline kicks in and he equips his Chinese Assault Rifle and just jumps into the fray. About five minutes, eight stimpacks and a couple of hundred rounds later, he was surrounded by dead super mutants...with only 15 HP left.


 * During one of this troper's good playthroughs I used the glitch to get both Fawkes AND Cross as my companions, gave Cross a gatling laser and proceeded to assault the Enclave base in the final mission of broken steel wearing the winterized power armor and using the Tesla Cannon. the Enclave was dead before they even looked up. Doesn't matter if you're evil or not; a maniacal laugh is required at this point!
 * Found this on YouTube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E 0 Zb 3 A 8 n 0 Gk. Doubles as a Crowning Moment of Funny.
 * I kinda had one while exploring Old Olney. Being a bit impatient, I jumped through a gap between some cars to get into the town proper. My companion, Sergeant RL-3, didn't like this idea and took a trip around the outskirts of town, when we met up a minute later, he'd found a couple of erm... friends and was in the middle of a fight in a burned out building. Naturally, I figured I'd be selling him for scrap when this was over, however, by the time I reached his location, one of the monstrosities had been reduced to a pile of glowing green goo and the other was on fire and seconds away from death. I stood there for a good five minutes staring at the awesomeness the sergeant had accomplished...Then an outcast patrol walked past holding their laser rifles upside down, with one member holding a minigun like a rifle, that snapped me right out of the moment.
 * Dogmeat with the Brotherhood of Steel Expansion Pack is just amazing. Due to a glitch involved with leveling up, he has his health rise exponentially every time you gain a level. Assuming you found him early in the game, this means you can send him up against a veritable Supermutant Army on his own, and watch him come out with nary a scratch. At level five. Add on the Puppies! perk, which allows Dogmeat to respawn as a younger version of himself outside Vault 101, and you have the downright best companion in the game.
 * This Troper turned a near Nice Job Breaking It, Hero into a Crowning Moment of Awesome with the Railway Rifle while interacting with the slavers at the Lincoln Memorial. Whenever I hear "Old Olney", I think "Deathclaws". So I thought that by sending said slavers to that vicinity they'd meet certain doom. Well, no. Realizing my mistake I ran out with guns blazing, namely said Rifle. I don't know if this was a glitch or a normal effect with the Railway Rifle, but I actually wound up literally nailing the lead slaver's HEAD to the WALL at the base of the Memorial with a fatal VATS head shot.
 * No the Railway Rifle is supposed to do that, it pierces limbs to walls. You could hypothetically nail the head, and the arms and legs of an enemy all to the same wall.
 * If you got the Point Lookout DLC and got the quest to destroy the book in the Dunwich Building and you do so. After some Fridge Brilliance and a little thinking it hits you..
 * How can watching your dad punch out deathclaws with his bare hands not be a Crowning Moment of Awesome? Daddy loves little boy very much, yes he does.
 * Hell, he pretty much shoots his way to the Rotunda, taking down every living thing that dares to try and kill him and kid. When you think of it, this is physically describing how he'll not let ANYTHING stop him from achieving his dream, even fearsome creatures.
 * Which brings Fridge Logic to play. He can stand against the worst the Wasteland can throw at him, yet ?
 * I had one while just wandering around during the "Gotta Shoot 'Em In The Head" Quest after I found the Republic of Dave: I stumbled upon a bombed out drive-thru theatre... which was crawling with Raiders, who proceeded to start shooting the crap out of me. I'm running low on ammo and health already, and the biggest gun I have is a 10mm SMG. Luckily, the whole area is packed with rusted out cars. So I unload my SMG into the biggest group of cars, hoping to blow a few up and take out the Raiders. I ended up setting off a chain reaction that DESTROYED EVERY LAST CAR AT THE DRIVE-THRU in a beautiful chorus of mushroom clouds. Not a single Raider was left standing.