Are there Legion Quests before entering the Strip?

[joey]

I'm trying to do a Legion playthrough, I went to Cottonwood Cove because I thought there might be side quests for the legion there but only thing I could do is teach how to disarm mines and give NCR tags for money. Am I really going to have to do the NCR side quests for XP? I know you can sabotage them in some of them, but if I do too much of that won't they get hostile and I won't be able to do any more quests?

[The Real Private Kowalski]

You can tell a NCR guy over at Mojave outpost about the legion's war crimes other then that i don't think so

[99Random]

There are plenty of NCR quests that do not impact your relations with the Legion, not to mention the oodles of quests from other NPC's that have nothing to do with the legion.

Even the early NCR quests that send you to Cottonwood I did without impacting my relations with the legion by not killing (or silently doing so).

[AC Denton]

Nah, there are 41 NCR Quests in FNV, while only 20 for the Legion. The game is very one-sided towards the NCR, as the Mojave is their territory after they won the first Battle of Hoover Dam.

I wouldn't worry about XP, there's plentyyy of it without needing to do any NCR quests. I just done a run and ignored all but 2 NCR quests. By level 15-20 you'll already have the skills you want maxed out and be pretty OP. Then you'll have the DLCs to do before the main end quests too.

[Vex Hilarius]

Originally posted by AC Denton:

Nah, there are 41 NCR Quests in FNV, while only 20 for the Legion. The game is very one-sided towards the NCR, as the Mojave is their territory after they won the first Battle of Hoover Dam.

I wouldn't worry about XP, there's plentyyy of it without needing to do any NCR quests. I just done a run and ignored all but 2 NCR quests. By level 15-20 you'll already have the skills you want maxed out and be pretty OP. Then you'll have the DLCs to do before the main end quests too.

That just shows how competent the Legion is compared to the degenerate NCR. Legion gets crap done, we don't need profligates doing our dirty work! Ave true to Caesar! We will take over the Dam! This time.

[Mofuji]

It's as if the Legion faced a lot of content cuts due to a lack of time or something.

[ureaditwrong]

I'm pretty sure most factions, including the NCR, don't shoot on sight even at vilified before you enter the strip.

There are pretty much only two regular Legion quests before you enter the strip. One of them is telling the Sgt at Mojave Outpost about the Nipton massacre and the other is going to Nelson and agreeing to wipe out Camp Forlorn Hope. I'm pretty sure sabotaging Helios One will spawn Legion there as well. You can also free Silus at Camp McCarran.

And then as you said, most NCR settlements can be sabotaged in some way via quest. Of everything mentioned, only the Helios One and Nelson quests would result in major NCR infamy. So you have some options.

[Cyan]

At my first playthrough back on XBOX 360 I thought the NCR way was the "story" way, because you get dragged in so often and naturally.