Fallout Tactics: Brotherhood of Steel: Difference between revisions

** You can get an FN FAL as well as EMP shotgun shells if you get the merchant random encounter, the EMP shells let you bust the turrets in Preoria mission very easily.

** If you encounter the brotherhood prison random encounter, you can kill the 2 paladins using poison or drug overdose and take their miniguns.

* [[Drill Sergeant Nasty]]: Paladin Rychek.

* [[Easy Amnesia]]: Horribly, horribly averted. {{spoiler|The leader of the super mutants is one of the leaders of the Brotherhood who sustained a horrible head injury and started to forget who he was. He also becomes schizophrenic, eternally violent, and gains various other signs of a serious concussion gone untreated.}}

* [[Joke Item]]: [[wikipedia:Chauchat|The chauchat]], a French [[WW 1]] light machine gun whose frequent jams have been [[Flanderization|flanderized]] to epic proportions. It can be found in a hidden cache, but it's not even usable as a melee weapon!

* [[Lethal Joke Item]]: The 'Mutate' perk. Worthless in ''Fallout'' and ''Fallout 2'' where you pick your traits at the beginning of the game. In this game however, it can be used to make all your squad members Gifted retroactively, and is well worth the perk slot.

* [[Multiple Endings]] {{spoiler|Depending on your alignment and how you choose to answer the calculator's request. Every ending is morally gray except the one where you convince Barnaky to join with the machine. That is very much a [[Downer Ending]]. The canon ending, however, is the one where you destroy the calculator.}}

* [[One-Hit Kill]]: The bazooka is this one low armor targets. A [[Critical Hit|critical]] burst can do the trick too.

* [[Tank Goodness]]: Yes, you get to drive a tank. However, it only holds five passengers (less than a full squad) and there is very little ammo for the gun.

* [[Useless Useful Stealth]]: Stealth has only three uses in this game: getting to a tactical position, getting the first strike on the enemy and [[Video Game Cruelty Potential|getting the mines planted on the paths of enemy patrols]]. [[Subverted Trope|When enemies start using rocket launchers, you start to understand how useful it is.]]

** Quincy too, when earlier you can just go in guns blazing, this is the first time you encounter Deathclaws. That is, unless you are lucky enough and managed to get Auto Shotguns or Miniguns early.

* [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]]: The Midwestern Brotherhood is still a quasi-fascist militant organization with the goal of monopolising all technology like [[Fallout|its parent organization on the West Coast]]. Unlike the original BoS they allow outsiders into their organization, operate similarly to the [[Fallout 2|NCR]] in that they provide protection and aid to nearby tribes in return for manpower and supplies, and aim to share the technology they possess to their protectorates for the common good. {{spoiler|In all of the endings they eventually transform the Mid-West into a stable, secure place to live and share non-military technology with their protectorates, though they are still non-democratic}}.

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