Fallout 3: Broken Steel Walkthrough - The Showdown at Adams Air Force Base (Page 2 of 3)

Your ultimate goal is to get to the Mobile Base Crawler. It's a long battle and you'll be up against a ton of Enclave soldiers and several clusters of turrets. To be honest, the battle is basically open to your decisions. It's a big open field and you have a lot of options. You can sneak around to ambush soldiers. You can hack terminals and make the turrets shoot at the Enclave too. Your new Tesla Cannon is naturally a gift from the heavens. You'll be able to blow up Vertibirds in one hit and kill a number of Enclave Soldiers in one or two hits. There are some artillery positions early on that you can use, but Ii personally think it's better to just play around with the Tesla Cannon for now.

Your mission at the moment is to just reach the large air traffic control tower so that you can get the entrance ramp for the Mobile Base Crawler to lower. The path is fairly easy to see. Just go down the path between the buildings. Kill each patrol of Enclave. There are roughly 3 or 4 in each group. You should be good at killing Enclave at this point. Go through the deathclaw cages. That's roughly the halfway point. You can unlock the cages if you want, but you usually end up fighting the deathclaw at the end of the fight, so it's of questionable worth.

The last bit just requires a bit of skill and luck to take out the few bunker positions. It's then just a matter of getting into the tower. Go up the stairs and enter the marked door. Kill the sentry bots inside and go up the staircase. Leave to go into the main tower which overlooks the airfield. Access the terminal to lower the ramp. Then get out of the tower. Some vertibirds are coming and they will use their missiles and bombs to try and take you out while you're in the tower.

Go out and rush across the field to the Mobile Crawler. I shouldn't have to explain the rest of this. Keep shooting and do what you can to take out the Enclave still guarding the field and the Crawler. Rush up the ramp and get into the Crawler.

Alright. You're actually pretty close to done. Some quick lessons though.

The blue fields are stasis fields. You have three options to get through. If you have 80 Science then you can completely disable them. If you have 50 in Explosives you can use a timed charge. You can also just smash the console, but the resulting explosion always hurts you. Blowing it up also only weakens the field. It will burn you as you cross it.

The left goes to a bunker/armory for the elite Enclave that are apparently waiting for you to show up. Don't go that way just yet. Going to the left triggers an alarm which causes the barracks to empty and makes you fight 6 Enclave in close quarters. Go to the right and talk to Stiggs. Be nice and he'll explain the entire layout to you and tip you off about the mainframe that's just above you. That's your goal for evening the odds right now.

Go up the stairs to the right and get to the second level. Follow the optional marker and start navigating the platforms. You should be able to find and kill any one of the Enclave officers here. Grab the keycard off of them to gain access to the mainframe. Kill any soldiers in here and hack the terminal. If you have 75 Science then you can also hack the robotics terminal to shut down all the turrets and robots. That makes everything much easier. Here's the best part though. If you have the Robotics Expert perk, then you can actually reverse the IFF codes on the robots and turrets. All of them are now your allies. If you do this, then you will be able to just sit back and let your new robot army kill half of them. Go ahead and unlock all the doors and the armory. That's your next stop.