Is the Brotherhood of Steel the best faction for Survival mode?

[Coylie3]

Unlimited access to Power Armor, weapons, ammo, medicine, and food, as well as fast travel via vertibird, fragile though they may be.

I haven't started a Survival mode character yet. Seeing the differences on the Wiki make me think that siding with the Brotherhood of Steel is a very simple way to make it much easier, especially when compared to every other faction. It is already very easy to fall in with the Brotherhood of Steel to begin with, but they seem like the only faction worth joining in Survival mode.

[Vagrant]

It's a big plus to join the BoS just for the vertibird taxis.

[Zu]

Why not join all of them until you need to make a definitive choice?

The Institute comes with free, all-in-one, time-saving medical treatment and the only fast travel point in the game, which you can play around by having your biggest base of operations in Hangman's Alley.

Railroad comes with...Deacon, I guess. Ballistic Weave is such a drag to unlock, but I think vertibirds stay available if you side with them at least.

[The Tempted Man]

And minutemen come with... NO, we do NOT talk about that man.

[ʙ⌁¹¹⁰¹]

it's good to kill them. lot's of stuff to sell, and good xp.

[Coylie3]

Originally posted by Zu:

Why not join all of them until you need to make a definitive choice?

That's what I normally do, and I was thinking of doing that in my first Surviuval run.
Institute fast travel gets you to CIT ruins, which is a central point of the world map and it also has enough space for a vertibird to land at.

The only one I definitely wouldn't want to join in Survival is the Minutemen. I can't REALLY be expected to manage all those settlements without fast travel, can I? Get out of here, Preston, Cait is my new best friend. Rebuild the Commonwealth without us.

[Coylie3]

It just really feels to me that the only real choice you should make in Survival mode is to side with the Brotherhood of Steel. Siding with any other faction would make the game too much of a hassle IMO.

[Chef]

I am actually in the process of starting a new Survival playthrough. Among others, I am going to be using the "We Are the Minutemen" mod, mostly so I can put 3 or 4 Minuteman in each settlement. That along with a bunch of turrets should help with the attacks. And going to be staying friendly with BoS just so I can use the vertibirds.