Raider Boss: Alright boys and girls, lets get us some loot! - Settlers whip out Gatling lasers and nuclear grenades - Raider Boss: Tha fu-

Just witnessed my settlers annihilate a band of raiders with auto combat rifles, laser rifles, and assault rifles. Then one guy approaches: " I'm glad you're here. We could really use your help." Me: ...... -_-

The problem with gatling lasers is if you give a settler a fusion core, they like to steal your power armor!

Explosives can destroy resource-gathering objects, like farms, purifiers, and power generators. Also kills other settlers. Definitely not recommended.

I don't trust followers or settlers with grenades since that one time Piper wrecked my damn Power Armour by throwing a grenade at the radroach in front of me.

I go for practicality first. I look to give all normal settlers lazer rifles & all 'guards' plasma rifles. Make them automatic & with the 'burn' effect. That way you always know where an attack is coming from due to being able to SEE the shots & when they hit they 'light up' the enemy with the burn effect. I came across this strategy in Far Harbor when everything was too foggy & I could not see where the attacks were coming from half the time!

For fun, I gave all the settlers in one settlement MIRV nuke launchers, then watched what happened when they were attacked. But what I ended up looking at was my desktop after the insane flurry of nukes caused a CTD. Ah, good times.

I learned to not give settlers anything explosive, since they often ended up exploding each other, or me. I also tend to go for automatic receivers for my settlers' guns, because they make up for the lower damage per shot with increased volume of fire and their infinite ammo (MOAR DAKKA!!)

Flamers for everyone ! Alternatively: Triggermen clothes, baseball bats, tommy guns and molotov cocktails - let's see who tries to be a wiseguy and invade a settlement that belong to the Family.

9. Automatic Pipe Rifle 1:22 8. Minigun 2:53 7. Frag Grenade 4:29 6. Radium Rifle 5:25 5. Plasma Grenade 6:54 4. Handmade Rifle 8:08 3. Nuka Grenade 9:29 2. Automatic Plasma Rifle 10:52 1. Gatling Laser 12:16

I turned my settlers into an army with different ranks and functions. Enlisted grunts who took care of the food and farming on their free time wore the standard BOS uniform, the military cap often found on gunners and sunglasses. They were equipped with automatic laser rifles, frag grenades, 1 stimpack, and a stun rod. Medic wore the white doctors BOS uniform, sunglasses and admiral hat. Also equipped with a automatic laser rifle, 5 stimpacks, various chems and a combat knife. Sniper wore blue BOS captain uniform, grey knit cap with sunglasses. Plasma grenades, stealth boy, stimpacks, plasma sniper rifle and a stealth combat knife. Colonel wore blue BOS captain uniform, BOS captain hat and sunglasses. Plasma grenades, auto plasma rifle, revolutionary sword and stimpacks. Also has a suit of power armor close-by T-60 variant. Standard soldiers were broken down into three separate groups long range, heavy gunner, and assault troops. All wore army fatigues with heavy combat armor & helmets + wrap around googles except for the long range troops who wore the military cap+sunglasses and a heavy leather chestpiece instead of combat armor all dyed black. They all were equipped with plasma grenades, stimpacks, serrated machete, combat knife. The long range fighters were equipped with gauss rifles, the assault troops automatic plasma rifles, and heavy gunners gatlin lasers. Also there was a melee variant for the chubby settlers that were equipped with power fists. Infiltrators wore corsers uniform, military cap and sunglasses. Full auto plasma rifle, plasma grenades, stealth boy, stimpacks and stealth combat knife. Special forces wore green BOS uniform with heavy combat armor dyed white and synth helmets. They used a mixture of sniper and fully automatic plasma rifles, plasma grenades, stimpacks, and electified Chinese swords. It was fun to watch the final battle with the BOS as they tried to get land their Osprey into Fort Warren, they never stood a chance.

It doesn't belong on the top 9 list, but one thing you can do is give the Assaultron Head weapon to a ghoul settler, and then the radiation damage it generates won't hurt them. It probably even heals them, but it's hard to tell for sure.

I often prefer to give weapons with rare ammunition to my settlers instead of using it myself; that way I don't have to be constantly scrounging for ammunition. For example, I typically give Jun Long the Cryolater, since I only have to give him one cryocell to make him effective. If I ever end up with a large amount of cryolater ammo, I can "borrow" it from him for a mission, then return it when the ammo runs low.

I ALWAYS arm and armour my Settlers. No matter what. New guy comes in? Fucking drop the pipe pistol because you’re getting this spare plasma rifle I got and a spare suit of power armour since you’re now on guard duty

I never gave them guns because I didn't know they get infinite ammo for anything but their original gun. This changes everything!

In addition to the handmade rifle being common in the bodies of killed raiders there is also a group of raiders around the wall of the Galactic Zone, or the Western Zone. Those raiders often encounter gunners, super mutants, ghouls, or the occasional death claw. This often leads to casualties among those raiders. So basically, free handmade rifles, and you don't have to betray the raiders. Yet

For each settlement/base, I simply mix up some Gatling Lasers, maxed out miniguns, a couple of 50 cal sniper rifles, and the rest mixed between plasma weapons and assault rifles. The Gatling Lasers and Miniguns go to guards equipped with full sets of Heavy Combat Armor, the 50 cal sniper rifles go to a couple people up in towers, and the rest of working settlers get the mix of assault rifles and plasma weapons. I never allow my settlers to have grenades for one simple reason: They ruin all sorts of things throwing them everywhere. Your crops will get ruined, stored will have to be repaired, and forget anything you tried to set up to look nice. Never give settlers grenades unless you want to repair things often. Same goes for missile launchers and fat man launchers.

I would also add laser rifle 1.it's a decent weapon for mid-game 2.it's also cheaper the higher in game you get

OK, looking at your list, my critique: #9 Only good because plentiful, thus worthless #8 Miniguns are low DPS at any level, by the time they are available (beyond the one you get for saving Preston and ruining your life) they hardly do enough damage to warrant the weight for looting them. #7 Grenades cause high damage friendly fire, trashes crops, and other settlers. Often they get thrown at you by your own settlers. #6 DLC Required, ignore if you play vanilla. #5 See #7, now double the stupidity of giving them to NPCs #4 See #6, different DLC, same situation. #3 Again, See #'s 7 and 5, and remember your settlers don't care where you are when they throw grenades, at all. #2 Solid Choice, definitely worth being on this list. #1 Stupidly rare, but very powerful. Makes a great light show. Eats Ghouls and Super Mutants. My Suggestions/Opinions: #7 10mm Automatic Pistol - cheap and easy to upgrade, plentiful and causes settlers to instinctively spread out which limits the effects of AOE against them (flamers, grenades, ect) #6 Sub-Machine Guns - Nothing like a little rat-ta-tat from the old sewing machine to turn a bunch of raiders into piles of loot. #5 Automatic Combat Rifle - Still only does physical damage like the 10mm, but packs a punch. As mentioned in the video, rifles tend to make the settler AI find hard cover, and fire from protective positions. #4 Automatic Laser Rifles - Energy Damage, high rate of fire, tears into Super Mutants like a light saber through butter. #3 Automatic Institute Rifles - Just like Laser Rifles, but now in BLUE! #2 Plasma Rifles - As stated in the video, they are awesome hybrid damage. #1 Gauss Rifles - These things are simply nasty, long range, high damage, and the impact spins targets off target, making it harder for them to fire back. Highest base DPS in the game, but 100% physical damage.

Tire irons and pipe pistols👌

Armor matters - a fully armored settler will keep shooting a good deal longer. Also, if you go with matching armor for each settlement it is easy to tell friend from foe (and friendly fire from you is one of the few things that can kill a settler). Ballistic Weave + Armor makes for surprisingly beefy settlers for the late game (when you are filthy rich and looking for excuses to turn caps into XP through crafting). The longer the range on the weapon, the further your settlers will engage from. Put on long scopes and they will stay further back. For some settlements (Finch Farm, Abernathy) long range is great. On some others, short range is better so they don't "back up" and put themselves out of the fight (Hangman's Ally, Covenant) behind something. Extra legendary weapons are great choices - except for explosive and wounding. Those two will create friendly fire on you and each other leading to settler deaths and more property damage. Staggering and kneecapping are awesome - but mighty, violent, plasma, and the various slayer types are all good (and ones you probably are not using on your own). If you want to make a "human turret" start with concrete foundations (the barn ones are cheap and extra tall) and some stairs. Put up three guard posts (I prefer the barrier ones from Vault Tec Workshop). Assign your settler, then pull the stairs and surround the block with rails (the ones from the scaffolding work well) and put the stairs away. That keeps the guy up there on this assigned "route" between the three posts and when he engages enemies he cannot run off the tower. Just make sure his weapon has lots of range.

10:35 "YOU HUMANS SO STUPID! SO WEAK" Human: *throws n-grenade to wall killing himself and his friend* Me: True xD

I put my settlers in black suits, bowler hats/Fedoras, and black tinted glasses. They all carry laser/plasma guns and plasma grenades. Lets just say they fight in style

I gave mine full auto plasma machine guns, polymer coated Heavy Combat Armor, and Yellow Helmets to have every single guard set up to look and shoot like a Stormtrooper. Only difference is that they eventually hit their targets.

I give them whatever left overs I have. Anything is better than pipe pistols and farm clothing.

Grenades break crops.

My settlements always die, my first attack had raiders with missle launchers...

Be sure to go back and update your settlers occasionally. I checked with my guard at Sanctuary. I was around level 50, and she still had the same shotgun and leather armor I gave her at 3rd level. She now has a Militia outfit with ballistic weave, shadowed combat armor, and a plasma rifle. No grenades. Only provisioners get explosives.

I usually give my settlers the legendary weapons that I don’t use and frag grenades with tier one combat armor

I didn't like giving settlers explosives, too much collateral damage. I really liked lasers upgraded into rifles with automatic capacity, beam splitters, and gamma wave emitters... automatic scatter guns that set people on fire. SMG's are pretty easy to lay ones hands on as well. Bunch of Wise Guys with tommyguns running a settlement, making the raiders an offer they can't refuse.

I noticed how the enemies in this video would take cover by going through the blue double doors and they do this a lot. It would be an excellent move to place 2 heavy turrets inside that room as a nasty surprise.

13:27 shoutout to that settler, he was not afraid of that mutant overlord lol

Nuka grenades look fun as heck.

Would love to see you try a video on Best Armor types to use for settlers some time. Love these kinds of videos you do

Sir i think it's time to retake the castle but i got word that another settlement needs our help i'll mark it on your map

The synth relay grenade is good too. It spawns synths that will be hostile only towards the attackers.

Giving every single settler a fusion core? Nah, I'm okay...

Armor matters as much as guns to keep settlers firing longer before they "sit down." Explosives are a no go - they destroy crops, facilities, and each other. Weapon range will determine the settler engagement distance (pistols, with shorter range, will usually have the settlers getting closer). Weapon accuracy determines settler accuracy (spread and misses). Thus, the mods you put on a weapon can matter a lot and in odd ways (like putting scopes on fully auto rifles). Mixtures of energy and ballistic (guns and lasers or plasma) do best. Keep in mind those extra legendaries you will never use, like those that do more damage to a particular enemy type. They can often add efficacy to a settler group, especially if they regularly face a particular enemy type.

I once tried to equip a random settler with a gatling laser at Sanctuary Hills, but there was a suit of t-45 power armor nearby. So when enemies attacked the settlement, that one settler used the one fusion core I gave him to equip that suit of power armor instead of using the gatling laser.

Never on my whole time playing had I ever considered outfitting my settlers with Miniguns! That looks pretty impressive and devastating

I've always armed settlers with assault rifles, and it's the easiest gun to farm

If you don't care about maxing out happiness, you can make custom death bots for all of your settlements.

Awesome video! I probably spend more time upgrading my Settlements/Settlers than doing anything else in the game. I always equip my settlers with any of these weapons: -fully-upgraded combat rifles (I call them battle rifles, because they fire .308 bullets) -fully upgraded combat shotguns (I call them heavy shotguns, because they weigh more than 20 pounds) -or fully upgraded assault rifles (I call them machine guns, because that's exactly what they look like). As for armor, I always give the settlers assigned to guard duty combat armor, with polymer and lead-lined mods. Nothing less than Polymer will do!

really good video never, do like that you acknowledged the pipe rifle as being stilla force to recon with as it is surprisingly useful

Infinite ammo doesn't apply to rockets and mini-nukes, same for enemies.

I usually equipped my settlers one of two ways. Road leathers, leather armour, and a hunting rifle or double barrel shotgun. The other way is dirty army fatigues, combat armour, and automatic combat rifles with bayonets and a front sight ring.

I equipped every settler with fully moded armour and weapons as a sorta standing uniform in my play through (gave everyone a red vault suit red backpack and flame paint job on full combat armour with a legendary plasma rifle each) an left several suits of power armor sittin everywhere with power cores in them specifically for them to use in attacks (ive even set one up next to most gaurd posts now along with a cpl of dog kennels lol )(the castle and sunshine tidings and half of sanctuary are lookin so awsome) and I've yet to acualy see one moved, let alone used by a settler

I didn’t know this thanks for this video

Settlers(and NPC in general) always hip-fire and ignore recoil, keep in mind when you modifying weapons for them.

Radiation will heal gouls and super mutants, the radium rifle is a bad idea...

This list is so wild I have to assume it’s meant to be trolling. It was insane enough to suggest grenades, but topping the list with Gatling Lasers defies belief. Have fun repairing turrets and watching your stolen suits of power armor get blown to bits.

Man you really put the Warwicks through hell for this video.

Easiest way i see to going about this is to give different kinds of settlers different weapons. Give the farmers the pipe rifles, give the scavengers hand made assault rifles, give defenders/guards plasma rifles, and give one settler a gatling laser and some power armor. Of course this is something to build up to, but it's an easy way to think about managing what your settlers have (do the ones at X settlement have Y weapons yet, etc)

I go for a regular run around the fish packing works up at coastal cottage, kill all the synths and take their institute lasers, hand those out to the settlers.

For the sake of immersion, I like to mix up the weapons my settlers use, make it look like they’re using whatever they can get their hands on. Most of them get pistols and hunting weapons, maybe one or two guards wielding higher grade automatic/semi auto or energy weapons. I also like to designate one guard the ‘officer,’ giving them a colonial jacket or military fatigues, and a weapon like a 44 pistol, a laser musket, or a plasma rifle.

I got a lovely mod that lets you change weapon ammo types. It can be a "cheat" if you abuse it's abilities. Such as it lets you make the weapon do +500% damage above its base. But I just use it to switch ammo type to .38, so they got use of combat rifles. I then use vanilla options to tweak the weapon, and gunner farms for armour. Just started a new play through where I am going slow AF to be sure my settlements are all very well armed and armored, kinda role playing the "if I was the NCR and want to dominate" kinda idea. All citizens gets decked out, as I am able. It's fun watching a group of fully armed NPCs, some in PA repel a super mutant attack.

Only one problem; these days I never go to Concord.

I tried a mod and gave all my settlers power armour and a gatling laser

Interesting choices. I find that in smaller settlements, like Hangman's Alley, shot guns tend to work well.

Thanks for this, my settlers are slowly becoming more defended

I have tried various weapons in various configurations in different settlements and have the say the best single weapon to equip an entire settlement with is are upgraded automatic laser rifles with amplified beam splitters (institute rifles are a minor downgrade but still devastating). The beam splitter reduces the damage per beam but actually increase the DPS a settler can deal in practice due to a much higher hit rate. Also worth noting that settlers don't have to deal with that horrendous recoil an auto laser rifle / beam splitter combo has. Just try to imagine what it would look like to see a squad of 6 super mutants charging into settlement through a choke point with 20 settlers each armed with automatic laser rifles with beam splitters all pouring fire into the oncoming invaders. its just isn't even fair. Some other observations I made while trying out settlement weapons: Explosives are too dangerous. Settlers tend to kill themselves and each other while also destroying their own crops (depending on the settlement layout). If you have an elevated or walled settlement where settlers can toss explosives down on attackers, then that's something else entirely. Radiation weapons can be viable but I noticed the settlements I tried radium rifles and gamma guns were attacked by charred ferals and mutants more often than humans. Mixing radiation in with other energy and ballistic weapons is pretty good in most cases. Attacking feral ghouls will still make you think twice about having rad weapons in the fold. Heavy weapons will put the settler equipping it in a dangerous position. a settler with a minigun or gatling laser isn't going to use cover effectively and will also draw more fire. I watched half a mixed weapon settlement get massacred when raiders focused on the gatling settler, killed them, and then one of the power armor raiders picked up that fully modded gat laser and went to town. Outside of an actual settlement a minigun and especially a gatling laser are ideal weapons to give provisioners since they will be fully aggro and usually exposed when out in the commonwealth.

Good video I found it very helpful

Equip all settlers with bladed tire irons, green dresses, and sack hoods. And then tell your girlfriend she would fit right in

Those lasers just showering that one mutant was the coolest thing ever

Here’s something I never thought of before, if you give them a stimpack each do they ever use it? Does it run out or is it infinite like frags and ammo?

Don't give out miniguns on farms. They will do more damage to crops than the attackers will.

I love the idea of giving your settlers a bunch of AKs, really makes them feel like a self-sufficient militia.

I don't know about anyone else, but I can't just spare a dozen Gatling lasers and Plasma rifles with a helping of nuke grenades for all. What next, power armor upgrades and missle launchers? Yes, that would be so epic and your video shows how pretty it is. If I really put in the effort and give away my collection my settlers would be something to see. I'd rather have them dressed in laundered dresses and clean suits with ballistics weave, and have a security detail helping the turrets.

funny that you posted a Fallout themed video today, since I am installing Fallout New Vegas with DLCs on my PC and going to mod it with the Alternative Start mod.

A while ago I found an infinite mag laser musket. When you crank it once it uses all your ammo and one shots

good tips, i give my settlers a combination of lazer/plasma/assault rifles, usually automatic, all upgraded for high damage, sometimes i give a few of them other weapons like gauss rifle prototypes, combat, radium or handmade rifles, and of course turrets and better armor, so my settlements have no problem dealing with enemy raids.

I personally use automatic laser rifles with the beam splitter. Good damage especially at close range, huge fire rage and with the sheer amount of shots it’s unlikely they’ll miss. You should avoid any explosive weapon, or any single shot weapon.

Plasma weapons and Gauss rifles are bad ideas for settlers for similar reasons. AI just aren't accurate with them. The AI can't compensate for plasma's slow projectile speed and they can't compensate for the gauss rifle's charging time.

If you're playing on a modded acount, make it reasonable and realistic. Like give them sturdy combat or sturdy leather armour to make it seen realistic with pipe,laser,or combat rifles,mabe even shotguns to

More fun weapons to give them (mostly from CC): -Manwell rifles and carbines modded into automatic. -CR-74L in automatic -Quake Thunderbolt. Unlike the Tesla cannon, it has infinite ammo -Legendary weapons farmed with Endless raids. I got two explosive miniguns there, that thing is hot. -Chinese grenade launchers.

Lol I remember building a child of atom settlement, took awhile but I farmed the child of atom at crater house and lighthouse, and added ballistic weave to all outfits and gave settlers gamma guns and ballistic guns like radium rifles from dlc and in vanilla, combat rifles etc

32 settlers with fully upgraded pipe revolver pistols 🤘😎🤘

dude, squirt guns...

Great video👍I have been following you since had 1 follower👍😁

My ideal settlement would have every settler equipped with an automatic plasma rifle and plasma grenades.

Great video mate big fan, but sadly it only showing in 360p? Why not 1080 like it is most of the time? 😁👍

or build walls around your settlements with one long corridor for access and have 2 or 3 missile turrets at the end in an elevated position. the attackers are funneled into a kill box and because the turrets point down at the targets they will always hit and cause damage. it's often over before anyone fires a shot

Absolutely brilliant. Thank you for 2nding my opinion on the Plasma Rifle. All my Gate Security & Complex Security have this weapon, with Mid Recon. My settlers have .45 combat rifles with upgraded Leather & Army helmets & Fatigues. My Security & Provisioners have the best Combat & helmet armour with military Fatigues, except, my Provisioners have Molitof grenades & a bright light mining helmet so I can see my Provisioners in the field when I am about killing, well, everything red. I would like to share this video with my Twitch followers please. Thank you.

I loved giving missile launchers to my settlers/provisioners as well. I played on survival and a friendly barrage of rockets helped out a lot before I switched to robot provisioners.

Equpping 👌

1st and where are you notification squad

Important: how settlers, provisioners, NPCs like traders die (unless marked as essential): once they are wounded too much they sit down. From then they aren't targeted by the enemy. However all area damage still effect them, most likely kill them. This is the only way for them to die. So never ever give explosives, grenades to settlers, nor ever build missile turrets. literally anything else they will use, and maybe many of them sit down but way less chance loosing one. I like to give them something with decent range, and either a melee weapon or put bayonet on the gun so they can use it in close quarter combat. Guards (settlers on guard duty on 3x guard posts) i give better armor. Provisioners i like to give decent armor, and something i can recognise them from the far, like a bowler hat, mining hat, hard hat. For them you might risk giving them 1 molotov so you can spot them from further away if fighting, but they will use it in the settlement so it is still dangerous. Note: when attacked they will grab power armor (leave them weak ones with fusion core, or opposite remove fusion cores from your power armors not to be stolen), but also guns, weapons from workbenches, safes, any containers. Low chance but if they stole your legendary you have been warned. I store all my personal weapon in Sanctuary root Cellar, behind one of the house, a separate little zone, shelter, with crate and safe.

Wish they would give us a fallout settlement game where we can make special combat units to go on rescue missions with or with out us. More jobs, ranks, have them vote on leaders... More building options. Bigger settlements,, deep settler stories and enemy settlements that we can sway to join us, or possibly lose our settlements if theyre not happy or captured.. More please. Love this stuff. Call it Fallout We The People or something.

AK-47s For Everyone!

Meh... setlement building is a pain in the ass as it is, I want to play a fallout game not a sim-city wannabe simulator. I dont care what my setlers have. I build a few machinegun turrets at good spots where they can cover the vhole place, let the auto-build setlements mod take care of the rest (before finding that mod I didnt even bother building any setlements, booooring, I want to kill stuff), and thats it; setlers can make do vith pipe pistols or vhat-ever they scavenge from raiders vhen they attack. Ocasionaly I'l drop some weapons in a workbench if I hapen to loot alot from mobs, setlers tend to pick them up from there, but thats it. And armoring the setlers... waste of efort. I have better things to do then haul a 100 pieces of armor in my inventory, to each and evry settler and equip him/her. I'm not there fucking mommy, if they want to suit up they can do it themselfs (bad enogh I had to plant crops and build beds for them before the mod, its like they cant wipe there own ass w/o help). If I culd just put armor in a workbench and have them pick it up on there own, I'd do it, but they dont seem to do that, so fuck that. There loss XD

I like to equip my settlers with a sense of practicality and realism combined with an appreciation for the supposed 200 years of apocalypse the commonwealth has been through. Even with your minuteman making ammo it would be damn near impossible to realistically supply your militia with full auto weapons standard issue. A commonwhealth militia would prioritize fast but carefully placed followup shots from an intermediate to high calliber of weapon. I tend to kind of ignore energy weapons as you might guess from my overly ridiculous prioritization of realism. With that in mind my minuteman carry the .308 combat rifle as standard issue infantry with support roles carrying Thompsons and combat shotguns and .50 cal sniper rifles for sentries.

I gave all the minutemen/settlers in the Castle either .50 sniper rifles, overcharged sniper plasma rifles, overcharged sniper laser rifles or advanced reciever combat shotguns. The Radio Freedom DJ was armed with one of the plasma rifles & he single-handedly killed an Institute Courser during the Defend the Castle quest.... (All of said settlers also had military fatigues/Minutemen outfits upgraded with Mark V Ballistic weave & various types of combat armor over it).

3th... nice

I think it's kind of annoying this video assumes you're cheating

After playing the game for years... Never give explosive anything. Always find out the enemy spawn location and create a choke point from building walls. with elevated and ground turrets. Jobs a good one

Is it true that you can give them any weapon with a single ammunition for that weapon and the settlers won't run out of ammo?

The minigun is the most reasonable answer I think. It's base price is 382 and it's regularly buyable from KLEO and while obviously a Gatling Laser is better it is harder to find and I think only appears once you reach a certain level so you can sneak into good neighbour at level 1 and get everyone equipped with miniguns in every settlement you own plus you get 1 from rescuing the minute men or not rescuing them and just grabbing the minigun and there's 1 in USAF right next to sanctuary so you can probably get enough miniguns to keep your settlers happy for the first few days of game play just from the surrounding area. I'm not a fan of grenades as they destroy things and possibly people in my settlement.

Okay... SO...... ...either settlers are set as essential / have plot armor, in which case it doesn't really matter what you give them. ...or they're not invulnerable in which case anything explosive is just an open invitation for friendly fire. Also, settler equipment only really matters if you're actually there in the area to have the fight render, aka you already went there, and you're there to kill whatever the settlers are being attacked by? In which case you'd wanna give them guns as crappy as possible so they don't steal your kills, in case that makes you not receive exp from them. If you're gonna give your settlers grenades of any kind, at that point why not just give one settler a fkin MIRV launcher? Not like the Fat Man disassembles into anything useful. Unlike the gatling laser. - And it'd honestly be more effective to give them power armor with how often you find empty suits of well maintained power armor just littering the commonwealth in vanilla FO4. Like it's no wonder the Brotherhood give you a full suit of t60 when the mothership comes in, odds are they saw how much of it is everywhere in the Commonwealth and decided to empty out the garage to make room for X-01 suits.

I like giving one or two rocket launchers. The homing upgrade makes them less likely to frag each other (no settlers with melee weapons) and the explosive effect tends to cripple anything that doesn't die. The rest get any assault, combat, laser, or plasma rifles I find that have multiple upgrades already installed, as I see no sense in wasting crafting materials on settler weapons. Also plasma and frag grenades as I find nuke grenades just have too large an AOE and tend to kill other settlers a lot of the time.

I love to balistic normal clothing and just dress the settlers as there job. Scrapers get mechanic uniforms, doctors get lab coats and so on. I even have a Atom themed settlement were they all were Children stuff and use radiation weapons.