BoS Outpost Theta

 

Tara relaxed back on her ruined couch Dogmeats head resting on her lap. If she closed her eyes she could almost imagine she was back in her pristine house on her pristine couch sipping coffee and not in her ruined house on what's left of her couch sipping nettle tea. I hope I can find some coffee from some where she thought to herself.

"Tara! Visitors. Looks like the Brotherhood" Jess yelled from outside. Tara slowly got up, Dogmeats huffed in protest but then spread out across the couch as Tara walked outside. The morning sun hit her eyes and she had to raise a hand to shield her eyes so she could see where Jess was pointing. Just entering the settlement was a power armoured figure flanked by 3 soldiers in armour similar to what Bobby used to wear in his national guard unit. The power armoured took his helmet off and she saw is was Knight Hudson,

"Good morning Knight. Welcome to Sanctuary Valley" Tara said, 

"Thank you Tara, the Brotherhood sends their thanks as well for retrieving that journal. The scientists are doing what they do with it. Sorry to just appear like this but we've been tasked with clearing or reclaiming an old Brotherhood Outpost. Now what has this got to do with you I hear you say. Well I have it on good authority that Outpost Theta was one of the outposts used by Knight Carmine in his investigation of the 53s and since I owed you one I thought you might want to join us and see if he left anything lying around that could be of use. " Knight Hudson  said, 

" Bobby? That's brilliant, thank you so much I'll go and grab my gear. " Tara replied excitedly.  She went inside her house and grabbed her laser rifle and baseball bat. Dogmeat lifted his head, 

" Not today mate you need some rest still after that last fight. " Tara said, she walked out and headed out with the Brotherhood. 

Outpost Theta now inhabited by Super Mutants 

Turn 1

Tara spies the super mutants milling around the ruins of the Outpost. She moves forward cautiously 

A mutant hound sniffs the air and smells human flesh, it races forward 

Knight Hudson sees the mutants stirring and leads the attack. 

Knight Hudson fires his laser rifle at the mutant hound causing 2 damage. 

The noises of gunfire and the mutant hound howling cause the enslaved tech to look out and see the oncoming brotherhood of steel. He hunkers down ready to defend the Outpost. 

"I'll just protect from up here "

The Brotherhood of Steel Knight patrol 1 moves up into action

The second mutant hound runs after the first hound eager to start biting! 

Another Knight Patrol headed out, trying to stay together against the mutant threat

The last Knight patrol moves up with his comrades, the super mutant, brute and Aviator cap super mutant all move towards the Brotherhood of Steel threat

Turn 2

In the distance gunfire can be heard

Tara shoots at the Oncoming super mutant but misses both times

"Damn it!" 

The aviator capped super mutant moved forward determined to get to grips with the enemy

Humans! 

Knight Hudson sees the mutant hounds bounding towards him so he moves forward to meet them and opens fire again. He hits one of the hounds for 1 damage and sets the hound on fire.

Die mutant! 

A super mutant opens fire on the Knight patrol but misses both shots, Knight patrol 1 shoots twice at Aviator. The first shot cases 3 damage and he misses the second shot. 

The mutant hound that was on fire takes 1 damage and stays on fire. It then charges Knight Hudson and manages to cause one damage. Knight Patrol 2 shoots at Aviator causing 1 damage. 

The second mutant hound charges Knight Hudson but misses his bite attack.

The last knight patrol (knight patrol 3) moves forward and shoots at the Aviator but misses.  The enslaved tech dogily stays in the base to defend it. The Brute stalks forward through the gunfire getting ready to charge

Puny human! 

Turn 3

The weather gets unbearably hot! 

Tara spots an opening in the battle as all the super mutants converge on the Brotherhood of Steel so she moves forward towards the objective though out of the corner of her eye she sees a struggling tied up human. The man doesn't spot Tara but she presses on she needs to get to the outpost and hopefully can come back for the man. 

The mutant hound takes 1 fire damage but the fire goes out. It bites Knight Hudson twice but can't get past the power armour. Knight Hudson smashes his baton into one mutant bound killing it, he then swings again causing 2 damage to the other hound. 

 The enslaved tech spies Tara approaching and fires his shotgun. He hits but Tara's armour holds. The remaining mutant bound bites Knight Hudson for 1 damage. Knight Patrol 1 moves and shoots at the Brute but misses 

A super mutant shoots at Knght Patrol 1 and hits causing 2 damage. Knight Patrol 2 moves into cover and shoots at the Aviator causing 1 damage and sets the mutant on fire.

The aviator fires back at the Knight Patrol but misses and he takes 1 fire damage and stays on fire. Knight Patrol 3 shoots at the incoming Brute causing 3 damage.

The Brute roars with rage and charges Knight Patrol 3

You shoot at me human!!!! 

Turn 4

A brahmin stampede goes past the edge of the map

Tara uses a quick action to move, shoots thr Enslaved Tech for 2 damage and sets him on fire. She then moves forward 

The super mutant charges into Knight Patrol 1

Knight Hudson misses with his first swing and connects with his second swing causing 2 damage to the last mutant hound.  The Brute swings his sledgehammer and hits Knight Patrol 3 twice causing 2 damage and the Brotherhood of Steel collapses. 

Ha ha fresh meat! 

Knight Patrol 2 shoots at the Brute but misses both times. The enslaved tech collapses due to the flames. Knight Patrol 1 does not want to be in  close combat so breaks from the fight avoiding an attack from the super mutant. Once at a safe distance he shoots at the super mutant but misses. 

The mutant hound again bites Knight Hudson but struggled to penetrate the power armour. The on fire Aviator mutant finally succumbs and collapses. 

Nooooo! 

Turn 5

A passing vertibird drops a crate onto battlefield 

The Brute  in a rare  moment of clarity spots Tara sneaking into their base so runs after her. 

Where you going human? 

Knight Patrol 1 shoots the super mutant for 3 damage  and misses his second shot. The super mutant shrugging off the pain from the laser shots looks at Tara and moves forward. He misses his shot. 

Tara used 2 quick actions to move forward finding a Radaway and then moves into the outpost and finds a powered terminal. 

The mutant hound misses its bites and Knight Hudson swings his baton killing the hound. He looks up and sees the mutants heading back into the outpost, Tara must have made it inside. He yells "Ad Victorium!!" and charges at the super mutant to buy Tara some time. 

Knight Patrol 2 shoots at the Brute causing 1 damage. He misses his second shot. 

Turn 6

The Super mutant tries to hit Knight Hudson but misses twice. Tara starts to mess with terminal wishing she had Jarvis with her. A beep and the compitet whirs into life. "yes!" she shouts. She starts to download data to a holo tape 

The Brute hears the combat behind him and turns round. He roars in anger and charges Knight Hudson causing 3 damage. 

Knight Hudson lashes out at both mutants causing 2 damage on each. 

Knight Patrol 1 rescues the tired up human

I got you mate! 

Knight Patrol 2 shoots a into the melee and his the brute for 1 damage and sets him 

That's was the last turn so Survivors win! 

Knight Hudson stamped on the super mutants head finishing it off.  He walked over to the fallen Knight patrol, Hexford was his name a good soldier shame he hadn't made it. He took a dog tag off the soldier and put it away. He would be remembered. One of his men came over,

" Arrange for a vertibird to drop some supplies off and also pick up Hexford please and let command know we have possession of Outpost Theta. Good work" Knight Hudson said,

The Knight Patrol nodded and walked over to Hexfords body. He pulled a radio out and started talking.  Knight Hudson saw Tara come walking out of the Outpost main building. She walked up to him,

"There's a working terminal in there. I've pulled all the info I can off for you" Tara said as she handed over a holotape. 

"Thank you Tara. Since we have cleared the place out I think we will re-establish the outpost so we shall be nearby for the foreseeable future. Did you find anything about your husband?" knight Hudson enquired. 

"Be good to have some friendlies in the area. I found some logs that mention him I need to go through them." Tara replied

"I hope they are helpful in your search. Right I have things to attend to. Do you need an escort back to Sanctuary Valley?" Knight Hudson asked, 

"No it's OK, I'll be fine." Tara said. 

Just as the 2 were about to go seperate ways a Knight Patrol came walking over with another male. Tara realised it was the tied up male she had saw earlier. The male walked straight up to her 

"Hello friend! Boy am I glad you guys showed up when you did. I think was about to be dinner for those freaks. I'm Ron Swinson" he held out his hand 

Tara shook his hand "Good to meet you. I'm Tara. Sorry I didn't grab you straight away. Mission to do and all that." 

"No problem miss." Ron dusted off a stetson. "Where's the nearest settlement?" 

"My settlement is not to far from here I was just heading back. Your welcome to come with me and get yourself sorted" Tara said, 

"Thank you Tara, let me grab my stuff if those green freaks haven't done anything with it and we can be off"

 Ron headed off to some ruins and came back a few minutes later carrying a huge gun. 

"Right let's go. Which way we headed" 

Tara pointed towards Sanctuary Valley and Ron started walking, Knight Hudson and the other brotherhood of steel stared at Ron in amazement. Tara laughed, double checked she had the holo tape she had taken from the terminal and walked off to catch up with Ron.

Fallout Raiders. BoS and Heroes of Sanctuary Valley

 Just a quick blog to show the painted Fallout minis I have recently completed. First up some raiders!

These were a bit of a challenge to paint lots of bits of armour that needed picking out but they are done and I'm happy with them.

Next up the Brotherhood of Steel force

These were not to bad to paint as their armour is more organised. 

Now for the heroes of Sanctuary Valley 

Not 100% sold on the colours for the dog but as I have 3 I wanted to make them a bit different from each other. Quite proud of the sole survivor.

There ya go that's my new models painted! Halt with these and they look great on my shelf with my other half stuff

A Reunion and a New Threat

 

Tara walked around the ruins of the industrial park that was next to Sanctuary Valley. Keeping her eye out for anything useful, boy her life had taken a turn hadn't it. She smiled to herself, Jess walked over from checking a shipping container, 

"Doug would have loved this place so much to look through" 

" We'll send him up here once he's better that ghoul really gave him a beatin" Tara replied, 

Doug was back at their settlement recuperating after the fight to take it back from some feral ghouls. 

 Dogmeat growled quietly facing off to the north. 

"What's up boy?" Tara whipsered. 

She heard a robot voice on the wind that sparked a memory for her, 

A robotic voice yelled "Get away from me you uncouth rapscalians!!"

Jess looked bemused, Tara was stunned

"There's always robots coming and going most are crazy, we should stay out of its way" Jess said.

Tara was sure she recognised that voice though. Then round the corner of the road came a Mr Handy being chased by some strange characters. They were yelling and firing shots at the robot. 

"That's Jarvis! Let's go!" Tara said to Jess and Dogmeat. 

"Wait whose Jarvis??" Jess was confused, 

"I'll explain later trust me though"  Tara said as she moved off towards the commotion 

Turn 1

Jarvis the robot started the battle by fleeing away from the raiders. Can Tara get him to see her and join her or will he be destroyed by the raiders. 

Get away you ruffians! 

Tara moves forward but is just out of range to get Jarvis's attention. 

The raider gang is after Jarvis's. The Psycho with a lead pipe rushed forward after the escaping robot 

Come here you bucket of bolts! 

Jess rushes forwards behind a crashed vehicle and spies a potential item but it turns out to be nothing.. 

The raider leader strides forward more cautious at these new people. He also discovered an item behind something 

What's this? The robot has friends? 

Dogmeat scampered after Tara, staying close waiting for the opportunity to strike. 

The rest of the raiders start advancing after the robot. 

 Turn 2

A loud boom fills the area. It sounded close

Jarvis's the robot keeps running away from his pursuers

"Away with you, you knaves!" 

As Jarvis comes close Tara yells but isn't heard and yells again a gust of wind carries her voice a bit further. Jarvis stopped and turned to face her 

"Mrs Tara Ma'am!!!! As I live and breathe is it really you" he sounded positively happy. 

"Yes Jarvis I know its crazy I'll explain later but right now we have immediate problems" 

"Jarvis!!" 

The happy reunion is cut short as a raider psycho swinging a lead pipe gets close to Jarvis

"Die metal man!!!" 

Tara whistles and Dogmeat charges forward, he misses his first bite but thanks to him being a herioc dog he uses his VATS for an extra attack which hits for 2 damage. 

"Get him boy!" 

Another raider fires twice at Jarvis but misses. 

Jess from cover fires twice hitting another raider psycho for 2 damage.  The psycho shrugging off the shots charges Dogmeat!

The raider leader moves forward and finds a Nuka cherry, he then spots Jess and blasts with his shotgun. Even at long range she is peppered with shrapnel and suffers 2 damage.

The other raiders continue their pursuit.

Turn 3

A passing vertibird drops a supply drop near Tara! 

What the?? 

Dogmeat continues his attack on the first Psycho raider. He misses first time and hits second time with luck and kills the the first pyscho. Thanks to his VATS he uses a quick attack and a critical hit to attack the second psycho for 2 damage! 

The second raider psycho takes a hit of fury and attacks Dogmeat twice for total of 2 damage. Jess pulls out her. 44 pistol and shoots at a raider causing 2 damage 

A raider shoots at Tara but the first shot is saved by her armour the second shot misses. Jarvis seeing the friendly dog that tried to help him fighting for his life charges into the melee! His buzz saw catches the second raider psycho just right and kills him!

Another raider charges into Jarvis, they are determined to destroy this robot!

Ha ha got you, you cad! 

Jarvis uses a reaction to fire his flame thrower but misses. The raider swings his machete but it bounces off Jarvis metal body. A raider spots Tara and gets ready to attack her

Turn 4

The wind picks up so it's quite blowy out there!

Dogmeat attacks, misses, next attack hits but the raiders armour holds a quick attack causes 2 damage. Another raider charges in!!

Tara finds a Nuka Cola,

She then charges into the melee!

One of the raiders decides not to get involved in the growing rucus so opts to just shoot into it, he might hit the robot... 

I'll probably hit someone we want right? 

His bullet hits Dogmeat for 2 damage. The raider leader is studying the scene he moves up but just observes. 

"hmmm interesting a vault dweller?" 

Turn 5

A raider swings his machete at Jarvis twice causing 2 damage. Dogmeat wrestles one raider down and kills him!

The raider standing off again fires into the melee and hits Dogmeat again for 2 damage. Tara swings her baseball bat twice and causes 3 damage to the raider in combat. Jess roots through the wreckage where she thought she saw something but found nothing then misses a shot at a raider

"Damn it nothing here" 

The raider left in melee swings wildly but does not hit Jarvis who swings his buzz saw in retaliation and slices the raider down!!!

With that last casualty the raiders started to pull back. Tara's group has prevailed!!

"You haven't seen the last of the 53's!! You hear!!" 

Tara breathed heavily and lent on her baseball bat. Jess came running over, 

"Everyone OK? “ she asked ruffling Dogmeats fur. 

" Mrs Tara I can't believe it's you. Sir never gave up hope and said he would find a way to get to you " Jarvis said, 

Tara was stunned?? 

" Bobby?? You said Bobby when did you see Bobby" her mind raced. 

"Oh it was only..... About 50 years ago" Jarvis stopped, Tara looked visibly crushed, Jess put her hand on Tara's shoulder. 

"Oh I'm sorry ma'am I forgot time is different to humans compared to us robots.  Sadly yes it was about 50 years ago. He was leaving with the brotherhood of steel, strange fellows they are, all Knight this and Paladin that but decent enough. He was heading to a Vault Tec building to find more information on your vault Ma'am. He left me here to keep an eye on things and I've been avoiding that bunch of uncouth hoodlums for the past few years. Sadly today they caught up with me. "  Jarvis explained, 

Tara took a deep breath, she knew deep down that to many years had passed for Bobby to be alive but hearing his name still pulled at her heart. 

" That's OK Jarvis, Bobby's probably gone now. At least you're here, reminds me of back than. You wanna come back to Sanctuary Valley with us?" 

"Oh yes please Ma'am!!" Jarvis span around. 

"This is Jess and here's Dogmeat, let's gets back home and you can tell us what you know about the 53's" Tara said.