Getting Vindicator Mini Gun Early Game.

Introduction
Hi all. Here I will share with you the method to acquire the above mentioned weapon. No special perks/recruits required. This can be done with your main, Farsight & Stich.

1) Finish the first mission & gain access to the world map. In my play the SP after gaining level 2 would be used to increase Farsights' Outdoorman skill to avoid random encounters & my Big Gunners' skill.

2) Find the ' Hermit ' special encounter. This vendor has 5 poison for trade. Steal ( if you are able )/barter 2 for our purposes. He also has some interesting items for trade too.

3) Find the ' Uprising ' special encounter. This map contains a number of dead civilians. 1 of them has an Afterburner gum. Further it also have 2 BOS guards in Power Armor Mk 1 & armed with the guns. Each of them have 1000 7.62 rounds in their inventory.

4) Equip any one in your team with the poison in their weapon slot & just apply it to the guards. They will not turn hostile. Then wait for the poison to do its job. Once they are dead loot their bodies for the weapons & ammo. You will not lose your ' Senior Initiate ' rank. Unfortunately you cannot loot the armor.

5) The guns' ammo capacity is 100 rounds per gun & fires 25 rounds per shot. Has 50 range. Cannot be used in the prone position. It requires 8 Strength. Uses 7.62 caliber. Should your Big Gunner has Small Guns tagged, the FN FAL & this gun will complement each other perfectly. Both use the same caliber. The FAL is also accessible early in the game like this one. This will help tremendously grinding for xp especially if you stumbled into the ' Deathclaw Liberation ' or ' Pitchblack ' special encounters :)

Special Note
Do not try this method on the Bunker Guards. You will be dishonorably discharged ( there will be a scene ) & the game will end when you exit the bunker. Besides those M60s are nothing compared to the above mention guns.

Have fun & good luck.

Edit : Just tested this & now it requires 2 poison applied to each BOS in order to kill them.

[Quantum]

Thank you (:

[rompier02]

Dude how hard is it to google the location? I didn't make it. Kinda awkward to take credit for work not done by me.

[THAC0]

so basicly your guide is pointless coz you wont provided the special encounter table, Good jorb.

[rompier02]

I did not want to provide the places so as not to spoil the fun. The sites can easily be found in the map provided by the wiki. As to how to use the poison I would rather leave it to the creativity of the Players. No need to waste it for the Jankhammers. I made a guide as to how to get it. Thank you for the input.

[Wakko]

Finding the special encounters is really the key here, so providing more information on how to do that effectively would really be a great addition. As they will only appear in specific squares on the world map.
A link to a site or guide on where/how to find the special encounters would suffice.

There's also a trick to discovering multiple special encounters within the same square;
Moving in and out on the corner of the square until you discover the encounter.
Then save and reload, and do the same on the other 3 corners.

Otherwise, good guide. Note that the poison from the Hermit can also be used to obtain a number of other items, such as the Environmental Armor (Trader), Pancor Jackhammer (Merchant) and Browning M2 (Merchant)