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

Time to wrap things up. Go to the armory first. You probably want the equipment. Go across the level to the left side and go back down the steps. You won't have to deal with anyone besides the Enclave now that the robots are on your side or shut down. Just go along and kill the Sigma Squad soldiers here. Should be about 6 or so. The real prize is down in the armory. Go inside and search it for just about every weapon in the game. Stock up on ammo and look for the ammo boxes on the middle of the table. There should be a good number of power cells for the alien blaster. There is also another alien blaster in here too, but one of the Sigma soldiers usually grabs it, so search the bodies.

After that, you're pretty much done. Grab what you want and go back up. I suggest you just avoid the deathclaw pins. They don't help much and it isn't really worth it. Then just keep going up and out onto the platform. There's another big battle up here. Take out the vertibirds as they land to even the odds up a bit. Then just use the cover of the platforms to pick off the Enclave. Keep moving up and enter the Satellite Control Tower.

It's one more fight before the end. Start pushing up the stairs. There are another 6 or 8 Enclave in here, but they shouldn't be a threat anymore. Your real goal is to get to the top and reach the terminal here. This is the end. Before you commit to anything, you need to be sure that you got what loot you wanted from the Crawler and the Armory. They are sealed off after this mission. When you are sure that you're done, access the terminal and get ready to make your choice.

You have two choices through the terminal. There are five possible targets for the Satellite Orbital Barrage, but only two real options. You can hit Adams Air Force Base or the Citadel.

Choose Adams Air Force Base

A standard end to the mission really. You will get 1000 points of good karma, so expect a possible reversal for evil characters. Go out and get picked up by an awakened Lyons and her rescue squad. She'll take you to a nearby viewing platform and you get to watch a really cool explosion. Get back inside after its done to go back to the Citadel and receive their thanks and a mission complete.

Paladin Tristan also has a new mission. You can effectively receive a bounty for killing Super Mutants, but you're probably past any real need for caps by now though.

Choose Citadel

This one is obviously bad. You get 1000 points of bad karma. Sarah Lyons will fly you back to the Citadel and just assume that there is a problem with their radio when they don't respond. You will arrive to a destroyed Citadel and a bunch of angry survivors. Lyons figures it out pretty quick and attacks you. Kill her and the group of survivors left behind. You can go inside and search the hidden Brotherhood of Steel armory locked inside the ruins of the Pentagon. The door is near the old target range. Go in and look for the safe in the wall. You can get a unique magnum called Callahgan's Magnum and a good bit of alien power cells.

The Brotherhood doesn't take this well though. Any Brotherhood of Steel soldiers in the Wasteland will shoot you on sight.

This concludes the main quest in Broken Steel. Most of the side quests are shut off if you blow up the Citadel, so I hope that you took that into consideration.

For now, you can just go about your business in the Wasteland. There's a bounty for Super Mutants and you now have a giant cannon to play around with. Have fun and wait around for more DLC.