Tips on killing legionaires?

[Herr Gutentauben]

I'm still level 9 and those guys are tough as ♥♥♥♥. I can kill one of them with some ease but they always go in groups.

I'm building towards stealth guns so my energy weapons and explosive skills are pretty low.

[psychotron666]

Armor piercing ammo? I mean you're still only level 9, you got a lot to grow yet.
The assassin's are pretty tough. Get a companion? Boone is good for killing legion.

Go hit a dlc to gain levels and avoid legion if you feel have it.

[Herr Gutentauben]

Originally posted by psychotron666:

Armor piercing ammo? I mean you're still only level 9, you got a lot to grow yet.
The assassin's are pretty tough. Get a companion? Boone is good for killing legion.

Go hit a dlc to gain levels and avoid legion if you feel have it.

I have all the dlcs but i'm playing calmly. I've done goodsprings, the mojave outpost, primm, novac and the power plant quests iirc...with some secondaries on the way.

I got boone today and the perk is quite useful yep. But the morons are tanky even with AP ammo. I guess ill just evade them.

[psychotron666]

Once you confront Benny and finish that, legion will reset your bad karma one time only. But you might as well do boones side quest first which requires killing lots of legion guys.

I'd recommend hitting the honest hearts dlc first because it's best for low level, keeps you away from legion, and you'll gain 5 levels by doing it. By the time you're back, legion assassins will be much easier.

[Herr Gutentauben]

Originally posted by psychotron666:

Once you confront Benny and finish that, legion will reset your bad karma one time only. But you might as well do boones side quest first which requires killing lots of legion guys.

I'd recommend hitting the honest hearts dlc first because it's best for low level, keeps you away from legion, and you'll gain 5 levels by doing it. By the time you're back, legion assassins will be much easier.

Where does it begin? I have never played new vegas before.
I've only ever played the 3rd and didn't like it.

[Big Pharma]

Originally posted by Dr Kappa:

Originally posted by psychotron666:

Once you confront Benny and finish that, legion will reset your bad karma one time only. But you might as well do boones side quest first which requires killing lots of legion guys.

I'd recommend hitting the honest hearts dlc first because it's best for low level, keeps you away from legion, and you'll gain 5 levels by doing it. By the time you're back, legion assassins will be much easier.

Where does it begin? I have never played new vegas before.
I've only ever played the 3rd and didn't like it.

If you choose the Honest Hearts Quest from your Pip Boy, it should lead you there.

[psychotron666]

Oh well then you're in for a whole lot of excitement. The hh dlc is north of vegas, you should have a quest about joining the happy trails caravan.

Just note there are many factions in this game, and you can be allies or enemies to them all. You can even join the legion and do quests for them.
Like I said, at a point in the main quest bad reputation with ncr and legion will reset ( you keep good rep though).

The main quest has 4 distinct faction sides to choose from, legion, ncr, Mr house and yes man (yes man is the fallback ending you can always do if you fail any of the other three, and it's the one with the most freedom for deciding what factions to ally with for the endgame ).

Also note that the game ends when the story is over (you get a big warning telling you it's gonna end ) so do everything you want to do before it ends (including dlc) and is recommend doing lonesome road dlc last (entrance is right by primm).

And every quest has like 4+ ways of completing them, some not so obvious. So just because somebody tells you to do something, doesn't necessarily mean do it or do it their way.

Just some random tips I think you should know.

[SGT_BUBBA]

Trust me the Legion never get easy to kill. their patrols are always well matched for lvl skill and always appear at the worst times.

I avoid fast travel when i can and always hoof it for the adventure so encounters with legion patrols always (mostly) work in my favour as i see them before they see me.

Boone and EDE Boone and EDE Boone and EDE nothing else needs to be said. get cover hold your ground pick off the guys who suicide run with melee and work on the rest with long range weapons (hunting rifle, bruth gun, anything with a scope) like stated above AP rounds are good but nothing will compete with a well placed 20 or 40 mike mike.

if you have the GRA expansion at the start of the game you get handed the most important tool the nad launcher. Hold onto it like its your dying mother for legion its a one way ticket to destination ♥♥♥♥♥♥. It will be hard to find ammo for it at first but a short cut to GRA weopan stand is do-able from lvl 1.

Myself on Hardcore high lvl i usually go at the legion with my riot shot gun loaded with legion coin buck shot. Seems fitting to wipe Ceaser's boys from the earth with his own coins.

[Boneyard Bob]

What I did in your situation was run from them in a straight line whle dropping mines until their legs were crippled and they slowed down. Then I just kept out of their reach while whittling away at their HP until they died.

Even if you explosives skill is low, you should still have a chance to cripple them with mines.

[Boneyard Bob]

Originally posted by SGT_Bubba66:

Trust me the Legion never get easy to kill. their patrols are always well matched for lvl skill and always appear at the worst times.

I avoid fast travel when i can and always hoof it for the adventure so encounters with legion patrols always (mostly) work in my favour as i see them before they see me.

Boy did I learn that the hard way on my first play through. I fast traveled to the 188, legion assassins spawned and slaughtered every vendor there, including an unlucky caravan merchant who happened to be passing through.

After that I would just fast travel to locations that I knew had cazadore spawns nearby and kite the a-holes into each other.

[Herr Gutentauben]

Originally posted by psychotron666:

Oh well then you're in for a whole lot of excitement. The hh dlc is north of vegas, you should have a quest about joining the happy trails caravan.

Yeah, i remember seen a happy trails quest in the pip boy.

I noticed quickly the different endings to every quest. The goodsprings fate depends on how you play it e.g. And in primms i put an NCR sheriff altough i rescued the guy from the NCRCF...I'm enjoying those details a lot.

The forced ending is quite a bummer tho...Although you have quick access to everything as compensation.

[Bansheebutt]

It's not really forced when you're asked if you want to go to the ending or not.

[red255]

Yeah Legion Hit squads I'd suggest gettng some AP ammo, likely a .303 gun if you are going to do guns, lets say a hunting rifle fully modded. also consider taking some med-x, psycho, slasher turbo to aid in the fight if you are having trouble.

I do like the 25mm APW gun GRA adds for dealing with legion hit squads. but thats after I stopped giving a crap about them,

Usually just energy weapon them in the face, Max charge.

[Goreshield]

Gotta get those crits my guy, luck skill n' stuff.

[Washell]

Bugs
- Legionary assassins are better equipped with high-tier weapons and armor (e.g. centurion armor, super sledge or thermic lances) from the early game (levels 5-11) instead of the middle or end of the game.

http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Legionary_assassin

They're hard, because they're bugged. They'll get easier once you're the appropriate level.

[Leravi The Hyena:33]

The best thing is to keep distance for a good portion of thier groups are melee based and if one of them has a thermaic lance id reccomend grabbing it

also bombs do wonders