The BoS: “NOOOoooOoo we need our special robot to take out the institute.” The Minutemen on their way to deal with the most technologically advanced faction on the east coast with some farmers armed with sticks:
I find using the minutemen to get into the institute very comical. "Hey General, what was it you needed again? Oh yeah, a molecular relay. Just go speak to that country bumpkin who's been hitting that same wall with a hammer for the last 6 months. He'll get you hooked up". Now we are a bit short on resources and man power so just gather whatever shit we've got lying around the neighbourhood and we'll build it in the back yard. Good luck General"
Railroad: *"we let you upgrade your basic clothes"* Institute: *"we give you a free bed and grenades that summon synths"* Bhos: *"we give you a free power armor set and let you ride a vertibird"* Minute man: *"hehe funni building"*
They start as the weakest with not even a single settlement and end as the strongest with artillery factories killer robots giant forts a monopoly on all clean water and standardized equipment (at least in my playthrough)
Right . Anyone saying they are weak literally just didnt do anything with them . My minutemen are OP . My modded playthrough they are even more badass but vanilla you can easily achieve a formidable force
I have over 200+ well armed and well armored settlers and 3+ artillery on every settlement i can heavy hit anyone on the map with minutemen soldiers or artillery
The minutemen was just the game's excuse faction to have you participate in the settlement building mechanic. Now slap my cheeks and call me General because I love me some settlement building
It's also so that you have a generic good guy faction. Institute are obviously bad guys and while the Brotherhood aren't as bad on the east coast as they are back west, they still aren't the nicest people and only really care about themselves. The Miniutemen, however, have no moral drawbacks. They just want to help people and build cool settlements and dress like apocalyptic colonials.
The minutemen are only as strong as you let them be. I came off of metal gear solid v and treated the game as such. By the end? My minutemen marauders were flying in on beacon homing vertiberds. Clad in stolen brotherhood power armor and wielding scavenged institute weaponry, we were an unholy force hellbent on consuming or conquering the wasteland. Whichever came first. Join, or die.
Hence why I, as the sole Survivor, go out of my way to max-mod (like in-game gun modification) several different weapon types, along with two armor types, so I can arm every one of my settlers to be able to look and fight like a minuteman
I like doing that too, but then it aggravates me seeing minutemen patrols wearing batting helmets and carrying pipe pistols. Meanwhile, everyone in my settlements has plasma guns and combat or leather armor.
@lordpolish2727 I used militarised minutemen with the fcom mod, and that fixed it to an extent. Until I attacked the institute and saw that half of the minute men were wearing combat armor using a pipe pistol lol.
Hey man, even the NCR started out as just one building, then Shady Sands. Even the legion started out as a guy captured by some Tribals. Anything can happen.
True. The Minuteman in lore were able to take down a highly advanced society that made robot indistinguishable from human beings. They are also capable of putting a leash on the Brotherhood of Steel. Those guys have NCR potential.
The minutemen give you the easiest route to defeating the Institute. No fetch quests to get Liberty Prime up and running. The minutemen give you map control. Establish settlements, build artillery. The more you have the more fire support you can call upon and the more value you get from your flare gun (summoned NPCs are decent enough decoys, valuable in Survival Mode when every mole rat bite might necessitate anti-biotics or a visit to the doctor.
The minutemen are about what YOU bring to the table. And they’re also the only faction you can side with that have the ability to get along with the Brotherhood AND the Railroad when taking down the Institute.
Yawn. Still have nothing to offer on the defense front. All that water, not one boat. All those tanks, and no prototype. Not even a modern bathroom system, yuck!
Also the only faction that can work with the Insatute *can't spell* it gose like this. Preston: hey your back from the place that kidnaps people that I thought was a myth... what you find out? You: oh they're chill Preston: well alright... anyway I got a settlement that needs our help. You: *turns it into a raider out post*
except you dont because although preston gives you the title of leadership for the faction, he still thinks hes worthy of being second in command and can dictate exactly what he wants you to do instead of yno, you leading the faction your own way. the only way to do that is to not progress the story so you can take settlements and control them with whatever other faction/s as you please.
Me: throws down artillery flare. Also me: tries to remember how many damn mortars I've build everywhere, when will it end and maybe it was too much... Problem of having Sole Survivor as faction is that by the end of the game we make Institute obsolete. Seriously. They developed 3 Gen 3 synths(Nick, DiMA and "Mask"), two of them rebelled and escaped, last one caused massacre in the Diamond City. Institute shat their pants and NEVER developed another synth. They've stole Vault-Tec cloning tech, stole Shaun and mass produced his clones. Forced control chip into the skull of each one(give me Mesmetron and bomb collars and I can also "produce synths"). They're not even cyborgs despite Institute being able to produce bionics for Kellogg. Meanwhile what does Sole Survivor do? Recovers secret joint RobCo/General Atomics production line, recovers lead pre-war scientist on Robobrain project, recovers several Vault-Tec reactors from an unbuilt Vault, recovers Nuka World robotics mainframe that prevents the same problem that Mechanist faced. Now I can mass produce humanoid "Robocops"(assaultron body and legs, robobrain head and arms), name them after killed named characters and pretend that they can use human weapons and armor just like Calculator robots. My robot army is cooler:P
"The objective I was after was vaporised. And the ememy I was trying to kill moved five feet to the left and didn't die. But thanks anyway radio dude. By the way, do you have any better songs?"
@@samhamsord7942BOS are obsessed with technology and don’t even care about the interests of the common people. Some people like myself just want an army for the people and a lot of us think the Minutemen have the potential to become the east coast NCR.
@@wookiethedogthe one I use u don't exactly remember the name military minute men or something where they use redesigned military fatigues and combat armor with ranks and all actually giving you a military feel
your wrong my good sir you also have the billions of other settlers that needs help constantly which makes you question yourself whether or not they are competent enough to wipe their own ass
the minutemen actually did lose if you think about it. only preston fought back in the museum of freedom while the rest accepted their fate, then preston makes you the leader as soon as the mention and sight of being able to live safe and in shelter finally arises giving it to the random stranger that saved him once and knows nothing about him/her, then to all become lazy settlers who live out their days with preston barely caring to assist you and help out as a self proclaimed second in command that bosses you about so you can progress the game rather than lead the faction your own way. they all gave up on being part of the minutemen and became settlers instead. preston killed the faction. it doesnt exsist unless you decide to fight for a dead faction under your name.
The Minutemen, when you meet them, consist of a suicidal dude with big dreams and a bigger brim on his hat (Preston), a synth cosplaying as a washed-up mechanic (Sturges), two parents suffering from severe and untreated PTSD (Jun Long and Marcy Long), and a drug-addled OAP who has hallucinations (Mamma Murphy). That isn't a "faction", that's a bunch of victims a bad day away from getting their collective cheeks clapped in every sense of the word (which is exactly why they're getting pressed by Raiders in Concord when you first find them). There's nothing for them to "bring to the table"; hell, there isn't even a table for them to bring stuff to! It is the Sole Survivor who _(re-)creates_ the Minutemen.
Yeah but if your the general. Why do you have to do all the work. Isn't the general supposed to send lower ranking soldiers to do stuff. The flare gun sends weak npcs. And the mortar always takes too long to fire to ever actually be useful.
Mamma Murphy is the 2nd strongest character in F4 I believe with a staggering 18 strength. I think “getting their collective cheeks clapped” is just an overstatement really.
Don't forget, Minutemen give you Artillery strikes and the flares to call the Minutemen to your fight. These are the big benefits of Minutemen. Did you ever call an artillery strike? These are pretty huge👍
The recent influx I've had of Fallout 4 shorts has got the tingle tingling again. Looks like I'm strapping my ol' pip boy back on and starting a fresh 👌😎🤙
Nope, I let them claim one of the neighbor's houses and built them a damn dorm so they mostly stay off my side of the street and out of my house and the house next door that became my power armor garage and workshop. I also put up a big fence with an easy way out but not in so if they are in there for whatever reason, they can GTFO.
@@roachymart2318they can spawn inside anyway. Say, if you fast travel out then fast travel back in, you'll have a fair chance of seeing any intractable item in your home (I.e bed, chair, stool, couch) occupied by one of the mighty minutemen.
cause they gave up being the minutemen but pretend they still are. realistically, as soon as they get to sanctuary, they are just named settlers in hopes u fight for a dead faction that no longer exsists unless u decide to fight for that faction under your name in which they finally pretend to care enough and make out like theyve done something to come along way with you when uve done basically everything on your own leading up to it or with a fellow companion/lover.
In Fallout New Vegas you could help a few rookie soldiers of the NCR learn proper combat skills. The Sole Survivor is a pre-war soldier which can be the general of the minutemen (and in cut BOS content we could had become the Elder) Considering SS knowledge on Power Armor and combat capabilities Nate could easily train the Minutemen on a same type of quest, gather and craft power Armors and train them. Make them a good force...
That's actually a great point. Not even the brotherhood had pre-war training. That could be a prize for the minutemen and a surprise for everyone else.
"Tried Kickstartimg a government" is probably the best description I've heard regarding the minutemen. only the railroad could top them in incompetence and ridiculousness.
i half class the minutemen as a sub faction alongside the raiders and gunners because as you go to save whats left of the minutemen in the mueseum of freedom, the only person who decides to bother to fight for their life and defend themselves and shoot back is preston. the rest had already given up under his leadership and basically accepted death as they were already losing 3 or more people in less than 24hours every day. by the time you save them and get to sanctuary to give them shelter and a home, they instantly decide to act like settlers and become lazy and preston just hands the leadership to a random person who just saved him cause even he knew he wasnt fit to lead which means that the minutemen cease to exsist without the players intervention or continuation anyway. preston quit his role as the faction leader, although what remains of the few that lived, they just decide to become settlers after being saved and didnt care that they were. they didnt fight back before and now theyve become lazy settlers just enjoying each day alive while you risk your life and do everything for them so they can disguise themselves as still being the minutemen when they no longer contribute or care to the cause.
I mean, you can turn any settler into the deadliest NPC if you supply them with the best weapons, grenades and armour because they'll never run out of ammo
There's one thing the Minute Men have in conjunction with the settlement building: Morters (so long as whatever you want is within range of where you built them).
I use We Are the Minutemen, beefs them up militarily while still keeping their old blue militia style. Always use it in my minutemen/settlement playthroughs.
i was so angry with preston after weeks of freeing towns and finally found out he’d never stop. i set up a “settlement” in a dark flooded basement and locked him up.
You know, I would have expected the damn minutemen to start training, arming and shielding themselves with all the resources I poured into them. But they disappoint me even on the most basic levels.
Noob . Your minutemen are only as strong as you make them . I have over 200+ well armed and well armored settlers and 3+ artillery on every settlement i can heavy hit anyone on the map with minutemen soldiers or artillery
I force people to dress appropriately. Then somehow they show up in crap again sometimes. Once I started using mods my game crashed so much that I refuse to play it anymore until I get a PC built. I wanna cry
@@Romanticoutlaw its quite easy to run on a potato, if you can stand 800x600 or lower. Played the game two times, one institute and one BOS ending. I recommend some graphics mods to help reduce the texture file size so that it doesn't strain 1GB Vram cards.
Your problem isn’t your pc it’s the load order and comparability of your mods you can’t just blindly throw any file into your game directory and expect it to work
They are really slow to fire, so unless you find an entire horde of supermutants is not worth to fire them. The only way to make them useful is in the mission against the Brotherhood of Steel if you are enemy of them
@@dynguskhan Honestly, Preston makes so little sense, from his lines I see that he's not against the institute, just Shawn. But yet he makes you blow the institute and create another nuclear crater in Boston, justifying himself with ''It was War!!'' and then being angry at you if you didn't let the people on the institute to escape.
I feel like there shouldve been a mission to upgrade the minutemans standard loadout. Where you can have influence over the armour and arms the minutemen actually use. You can quickly and cheaply equip more soldiers with leather, or you can invest into some combat armor for recource cost. You couldve taken over an old weapons plant or something to begin standardizing on some lasermuskets or maybe have a little room to move up to lazer rifles or some balistic weapons after you had taken the castle back. The minutemen just feel forgotten and neglected tbh
I just wish they could have at least fixed Preston Garvey always asking me "if we can have that talk now". Regardless if you tell him you're not that way.
I kina wish Bethesda fleshed this faction out more because it's meant to be our faction we built from the ground up. Since all the other ones are really established by the time we meet them.
@@TheOriginalJphyper it's just so dangerous to you because bethesda messed up, you cant throw it far enough because it hits an invisible wall. i fixed that with mods and use them all the time because its fun.
One of the unexpected highlights of a large quest mod was a point where you learn more about Preston and get to blow his head off as an option after confronting him about his past. He’s part of the decoration at sanctuary hills now on a cross above my house
Brotherhood of Steel: we have Liberty Prime, an airship, and the largest arsenal of Power Armor in the Commonwealth. Railroad: we have eyes and ears everywhere. Institute: we have teleporters, an army of cyborgs, and a fortified underground bunker complex that survived a nuclear war. Minutemen: I got a musket, a howitzer, and a beer, and I win.
I usually have mods that changes their outfits to military fatigues with light-sturdy combat armour, increased patrols depending how many settlements you have and pipe guns swapped out for combat rifles, hunting rifle and 10 mils.
I feel like you could make them into the strongest faction with a shit ton of work artillery at every settlement ive only played through the institutes story line because im evil though kill everyone and chill in literally pardise compared to the common wealth.
Coming back to this after my first mod playthrough and the minutemen are badass (modded) aside from you being the one doing everything when the flares work they come stacked
Then you havent put nearly enough time into the minutemen, they are hands down the most powerful of all factions if enough effort is put into them. They can literally steamroll all the other factions combined.
Downloaded this cool mod that actually made the minute men a well put together army with vertibirds, re-colored gunner amor, power armor, and improved weapons. It’s nice to have that and it makes sense instead of just have the completed army be rag tag no matter where you are in the story
For the Minutemen a mod I use is called militarized Minutemen which at least gives them actual equipment in the form of a military uniform and gives them similar level lists to the brotherhood (minus power armor) so when you use the flare gun you actually have armed and armored people to help you, and something else is if you put a artillery piece at every single settlement you have coverage basically wherever
I really just made fun of my favorite faction...bruh
They are also my favorite faction too their almost the only one that are actually good (as in wanting to turn the commonwealth into a better place)
I've got a mod that improves the Minutemen a lot
Noo u right u right minuet men kinda suck n Preston kinda useless
Bro. you forgot to mention the minutemen artillery.
@@irongrid4682 Preston: "There's another settlement that needs our help, I'll mark location on your map."
I always hate that the minutemen will still use pipe pistols and clothes even after we just got down fighting the institute
Thats what mods are for. I use We Are The Minutemen. It buffs them significantly. It gives them better armor and weapons.
@@thefoxygamer1536 Oh, sweet.
@@thefoxygamer1536 militarized Minutemen makes them into an absolutely badass faction
@@frosty89x45 i also use that mod.
@@thefoxygamer1536 cant wait to 100% FO 4 so I can start modding, I play for Like an hour then get bored
The BoS: “NOOOoooOoo we need our special robot to take out the institute.”
The Minutemen on their way to deal with the most technologically advanced faction on the east coast with some farmers armed with sticks:
And it freaking worked
You could use a giant robot to blast a hole to get into the institute or you could just go in the back entrance.
maybe the minutemen are the weakest faction, but is the faction with bigger BALLS
*Institute somehow getting 'Nam flashbacks*
@@rinlaster2942 the trees are speaking farmer and they said another settlement needs Our help.
*Laughs in seven artillery cannons per settlement*
nah fr i was like uhhh…the artillery..?
Yeah but then you have to wait a minute for the artilery and by then everyone is dead or they moved from the spot.
I find using the minutemen to get into the institute very comical.
"Hey General, what was it you needed again? Oh yeah, a molecular relay. Just go speak to that country bumpkin who's been hitting that same wall with a hammer for the last 6 months.
He'll get you hooked up".
Now we are a bit short on resources and man power so just gather whatever shit we've got lying around the neighbourhood and we'll build it in the back yard. Good luck General"
😂😂😂😂
Well that bumpkin is secretly a synth. So now that I'm thinking about it, that's probably why he knew how to build it suddenly 😂😂
@@keeganhdzSturges is a synth?
@@robertmckay5325 Yep, If you kill him with console he'll drop a synth component.
@@s2a1d I never knew. I've never killed him before.
He gave us plenty of… settlements that need our help god fucking dammit
Wait you had to help them ?
God* please be respectful even when swearing
@@donaldbestkorea2248 lol all that bothered you about that was that god wasn't capitalised? Such blasphemy...
Hey unlimited xp though
And with the minute men, you can put multiple artillery guns at any settlement.
Railroad: *"we let you upgrade your basic clothes"*
Institute: *"we give you a free bed and grenades that summon synths"*
Bhos: *"we give you a free power armor set and let you ride a vertibird"*
Minute man: *"hehe funni building"*
That's not strictly true. They give you Artillery.
It's a shame most things don't last long enough for the shells to actually impact.
@@styxriverr5237
Angry Artillery mod.
Install it and watch the earth tremble from heaven's might...
Why do I hear Bosnian music
Artillery is cool until you have heavily altered SS2, and you can just spam down specialty martial plots that achieve the same thing.
@@styxriverr5237 And a flare gun that calls for back up from your near by settlements.
*Artillery, the flare gun, and minutemen vertibirds have left the chat*
They start as the weakest with not even a single settlement and end as the strongest with artillery factories killer robots giant forts a monopoly on all clean water and standardized equipment (at least in my playthrough)
Right . Anyone saying they are weak literally just didnt do anything with them . My minutemen are OP .
My modded playthrough they are even more badass but vanilla you can easily achieve a formidable force
I have over 200+ well armed and well armored settlers and 3+ artillery on every settlement i can heavy hit anyone on the map with minutemen soldiers or artillery
same
What is the killer robot?
The minutemen was just the game's excuse faction to have you participate in the settlement building mechanic. Now slap my cheeks and call me General because I love me some settlement building
It's also so that you have a generic good guy faction. Institute are obviously bad guys and while the Brotherhood aren't as bad on the east coast as they are back west, they still aren't the nicest people and only really care about themselves. The Miniutemen, however, have no moral drawbacks. They just want to help people and build cool settlements and dress like apocalyptic colonials.
@@TheRealSU24 While the Railroad requires infiltrating the Institute for the long game.
The minutemen are only as strong as you let them be.
I came off of metal gear solid v and treated the game as such.
By the end? My minutemen marauders were flying in on beacon homing vertiberds. Clad in stolen brotherhood power armor and wielding scavenged institute weaponry, we were an unholy force hellbent on consuming or conquering the wasteland. Whichever came first.
Join, or die.
@@TheRealSU24 Kinda like the followers of the Apocolapse in New Vegas..
@@tacotuesday2489 they do have a drawback, they're Mormon
Hence why I, as the sole Survivor, go out of my way to max-mod (like in-game gun modification) several different weapon types, along with two armor types, so I can arm every one of my settlers to be able to look and fight like a minuteman
You tempt me to commit a sin as heinous as loitering:
being the 69th like. 👿
Militarized minutemen go brrr
I like doing that too, but then it aggravates me seeing minutemen patrols wearing batting helmets and carrying pipe pistols. Meanwhile, everyone in my settlements has plasma guns and combat or leather armor.
@@thelonewanderer8220 use mods that change the Minutemen NPC’s, I use buffed minutemen militia 2 (I’m on PlayStation)
@lordpolish2727 I used militarised minutemen with the fcom mod, and that fixed it to an extent. Until I attacked the institute and saw that half of the minute men were wearing combat armor using a pipe pistol lol.
Hey man, even the NCR started out as just one building, then Shady Sands. Even the legion started out as a guy captured by some Tribals. Anything can happen.
True. The Minuteman in lore were able to take down a highly advanced society that made robot indistinguishable from human beings. They are also capable of putting a leash on the Brotherhood of Steel.
Those guys have NCR potential.
The minutemen give you the easiest route to defeating the Institute. No fetch quests to get Liberty Prime up and running.
The minutemen give you map control. Establish settlements, build artillery. The more you have the more fire support you can call upon and the more value you get from your flare gun (summoned NPCs are decent enough decoys, valuable in Survival Mode when every mole rat bite might necessitate anti-biotics or a visit to the doctor.
"He who mocks the pipe rifle has never stared down the barrels of 100 fired at once"
"For every minuteman who falls, ten more shall take his place, and a hundred for each of them"
@@isabelbarker3569 Where is that infinite supply even comes from?
Guardsman logic
@@samhamsord7942 from freedom and independence
@@isabelbarker3569wat the fuk is a kilometeeeer🦅🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇸
The minutemen are about what YOU bring to the table. And they’re also the only faction you can side with that have the ability to get along with the Brotherhood AND the Railroad when taking down the Institute.
You’re right they CAN get along with the Brotherhood and Railroad
But counterpoint
fuck the brotherhood and railroad
Yep but mods make it even better
Yawn. Still have nothing to offer on the defense front. All that water, not one boat. All those tanks, and no prototype. Not even a modern bathroom system, yuck!
The Minutemen provide the Yes-Man fourth option.
Also the only faction that can work with the Insatute *can't spell* it gose like this.
Preston: hey your back from the place that kidnaps people that I thought was a myth... what you find out?
You: oh they're chill
Preston: well alright... anyway I got a settlement that needs our help.
You: *turns it into a raider out post*
I love the Minuteman. I can do whatever I want and I outrank everyone.
except you dont because although preston gives you the title of leadership for the faction, he still thinks hes worthy of being second in command and can dictate exactly what he wants you to do instead of yno, you leading the faction your own way. the only way to do that is to not progress the story so you can take settlements and control them with whatever other faction/s as you please.
Me: throws down artillery flare.
Also me: tries to remember how many damn mortars I've build everywhere, when will it end and maybe it was too much...
Problem of having Sole Survivor as faction is that by the end of the game we make Institute obsolete. Seriously. They developed 3 Gen 3 synths(Nick, DiMA and "Mask"), two of them rebelled and escaped, last one caused massacre in the Diamond City. Institute shat their pants and NEVER developed another synth. They've stole Vault-Tec cloning tech, stole Shaun and mass produced his clones. Forced control chip into the skull of each one(give me Mesmetron and bomb collars and I can also "produce synths"). They're not even cyborgs despite Institute being able to produce bionics for Kellogg.
Meanwhile what does Sole Survivor do? Recovers secret joint RobCo/General Atomics production line, recovers lead pre-war scientist on Robobrain project, recovers several Vault-Tec reactors from an unbuilt Vault, recovers Nuka World robotics mainframe that prevents the same problem that Mechanist faced. Now I can mass produce humanoid "Robocops"(assaultron body and legs, robobrain head and arms), name them after killed named characters and pretend that they can use human weapons and armor just like Calculator robots. My robot army is cooler:P
"The objective I was after was vaporised. And the ememy I was trying to kill moved five feet to the left and didn't die. But thanks anyway radio dude. By the way, do you have any better songs?"
This is slander, the minutemen did bring something to the table. Unfiltered DRIP.
That's better than anything the brotherhood or the institute could ever have, even if they metged
@@skittersspider1704The Brotherhood has some drippy power armor paints but goddamn do their uniforms suck
@@64plants19The General armor is HEAT
@@Homunculus99 lmao in 1776?
I like to make Boston Airport into “Fort Preston” and send him there. Even gets a neon sign.
He doesn't deserve fort Preston, I leave him in the drive in movies and let him run the giant farms I like to make there
@@eliaspanayi3465 Water construction site. Or the beach hole.
@@redwind5150 how do you send him how do you send him ?
@@buckrowley1506 what
I just leave him in Sanctuary Hills and run around my vault.
Preston Garvey is basically Yes Man from Vegas. The minutemen exist so that you can say fuck the world and still finish the game.
I suddenly get why I'm doing a yes man run (first playthrough)
If you walk around the wasteland after beating the game sometimes youll run into some minutemen fighting off enemies
That's why I always use mods that make the minutemen into a military
Which mod you use?
@Remnant Thanks man I appreciate it!
want military - go bos.
@@samhamsord7942BOS are obsessed with technology and don’t even care about the interests of the common people. Some people like myself just want an army for the people and a lot of us think the Minutemen have the potential to become the east coast NCR.
@@wookiethedogthe one I use u don't exactly remember the name military minute men or something where they use redesigned military fatigues and combat armor with ranks and all actually giving you a military feel
Militarized minutemen mod fixes this in a badass way, the armor looks awesome
Minutemen: Build settlements, artillery and you can call minutemen to help you in a fight if you use a flare gun
"The minute men is just you..."
Saw no more
your wrong my good sir you also have the billions of other settlers that needs help constantly which makes you question yourself whether or not they are competent enough to wipe their own ass
@@aldoalanis2259 so just like real life
@@amoose8439 sir it's just a video game calm down
If thats all you do for them then true.
the minutemen actually did lose if you think about it. only preston fought back in the museum of freedom while the rest accepted their fate, then preston makes you the leader as soon as the mention and sight of being able to live safe and in shelter finally arises giving it to the random stranger that saved him once and knows nothing about him/her, then to all become lazy settlers who live out their days with preston barely caring to assist you and help out as a self proclaimed second in command that bosses you about so you can progress the game rather than lead the faction your own way. they all gave up on being part of the minutemen and became settlers instead. preston killed the faction. it doesnt exsist unless you decide to fight for a dead faction under your name.
The Minutemen, when you meet them, consist of a suicidal dude with big dreams and a bigger brim on his hat (Preston), a synth cosplaying as a washed-up mechanic (Sturges), two parents suffering from severe and untreated PTSD (Jun Long and Marcy Long), and a drug-addled OAP who has hallucinations (Mamma Murphy).
That isn't a "faction", that's a bunch of victims a bad day away from getting their collective cheeks clapped in every sense of the word (which is exactly why they're getting pressed by Raiders in Concord when you first find them).
There's nothing for them to "bring to the table"; hell, there isn't even a table for them to bring stuff to!
It is the Sole Survivor who _(re-)creates_ the Minutemen.
Yeah but if your the general. Why do you have to do all the work. Isn't the general supposed to send lower ranking soldiers to do stuff. The flare gun sends weak npcs. And the mortar always takes too long to fire to ever actually be useful.
Shlt didn’t know Sturges was a synth
The MM are only as good as *YOU* make them.
If they are terrible then it's YOUR fault.
You mean to tell me… that Jun and Marcy… are not brother and sister
Mamma Murphy is the 2nd strongest character in F4 I believe with a staggering 18 strength. I think “getting their collective cheeks clapped” is just an overstatement really.
Don't forget, Minutemen give you Artillery strikes and the flares to call the Minutemen to your fight. These are the big benefits of Minutemen.
Did you ever call an artillery strike? These are pretty huge👍
The recent influx I've had of Fallout 4 shorts has got the tingle tingling again. Looks like I'm strapping my ol' pip boy back on and starting a fresh 👌😎🤙
The laser musket is seriously underrated
Especially in survival mode. No ammo weight.
Foreal that thing smacked
The ones you have to crank drive me insane 😂
Had one that was a sniper rifle that could easily one shot anything at seven turns.
@@wtr3059 that's the mod I first downloaded and after 7 playthroughs I forgot I had it. But with that mid it's perfect for survival mode
With the "We Are The Minutemen" mod, they became a more realistic law enforcer with great influence accross the Commonwealth
Cant get over his first scream for help. sounds so genuine.. the only time he says something without the "Minutemen" sleepy voice 💀
The minutemen are basically just your personal faction
Not gonna lie, you let 5 of there members live in your destroyed 200 pre-war old house and they let you be general of there army.
There are raiders with better gear than the minutemen army.
Nope, I let them claim one of the neighbor's houses and built them a damn dorm so they mostly stay off my side of the street and out of my house and the house next door that became my power armor garage and workshop. I also put up a big fence with an easy way out but not in so if they are in there for whatever reason, they can GTFO.
@@theonlineanimal6009
You realize that they are better if you build them up yes?
@@roachymart2318they can spawn inside anyway. Say, if you fast travel out then fast travel back in, you'll have a fair chance of seeing any intractable item in your home (I.e bed, chair, stool, couch) occupied by one of the mighty minutemen.
cause they gave up being the minutemen but pretend they still are. realistically, as soon as they get to sanctuary, they are just named settlers in hopes u fight for a dead faction that no longer exsists unless u decide to fight for that faction under your name in which they finally pretend to care enough and make out like theyve done something to come along way with you when uve done basically everything on your own leading up to it or with a fellow companion/lover.
In Fallout New Vegas you could help a few rookie soldiers of the NCR learn proper combat skills.
The Sole Survivor is a pre-war soldier which can be the general of the minutemen (and in cut BOS content we could had become the Elder)
Considering SS knowledge on Power Armor and combat capabilities Nate could easily train the Minutemen on a same type of quest, gather and craft power Armors and train them. Make them a good force...
That's actually a great point. Not even the brotherhood had pre-war training. That could be a prize for the minutemen and a surprise for everyone else.
Nice, but i don't think bethesda gonna do that.
@@commmander64 BoS started pre-war from defecting soldiers. They also presumably had gained access to the Operation Anchorage sim back in DC.
The way they present it the SS better be mentioned as near equal to the vault dweller from 1 considering they are basically pulling a Tandi
Imagine all that paired with settlement building... I guess its one way to inflate gametime
“That’s all well and good, but there’s another settlement that needs our help”
"Tried Kickstartimg a government" is probably the best description I've heard regarding the minutemen. only the railroad could top them in incompetence and ridiculousness.
i half class the minutemen as a sub faction alongside the raiders and gunners because as you go to save whats left of the minutemen in the mueseum of freedom, the only person who decides to bother to fight for their life and defend themselves and shoot back is preston. the rest had already given up under his leadership and basically accepted death as they were already losing 3 or more people in less than 24hours every day. by the time you save them and get to sanctuary to give them shelter and a home, they instantly decide to act like settlers and become lazy and preston just hands the leadership to a random person who just saved him cause even he knew he wasnt fit to lead which means that the minutemen cease to exsist without the players intervention or continuation anyway. preston quit his role as the faction leader, although what remains of the few that lived, they just decide to become settlers after being saved and didnt care that they were. they didnt fight back before and now theyve become lazy settlers just enjoying each day alive while you risk your life and do everything for them so they can disguise themselves as still being the minutemen when they no longer contribute or care to the cause.
This is the moment the minutemen became the MinuteMan
As a settlement builder...
THIS IS SO TRUE
I mean, you can turn any settler into the deadliest NPC if you supply them with the best weapons, grenades and armour because they'll never run out of ammo
There's one thing the Minute Men have in conjunction with the settlement building: Morters (so long as whatever you want is within range of where you built them).
If you build every settlement and put them on each settlement the entire map is within range just about
The mod Militirized Minutemen helps make them feel like a more established force in the Commonwealth, I never run a playthrough without it
I use liberty reborn, the mod makes them overpowered. The mod author gave them new suits of combat armor with power armor levels of protection.
I use We Are the Minutemen, beefs them up militarily while still keeping their old blue militia style. Always use it in my minutemen/settlement playthroughs.
Me on my way to arm another settlement garvey has marked
i was so angry with preston after weeks of freeing towns and finally found out he’d never stop. i set up a “settlement” in a dark flooded basement and locked him up.
I like the mods that make them so much better and add more minutemen activity around the world
You know, I would have expected the damn minutemen to start training, arming and shielding themselves with all the resources I poured into them. But they disappoint me even on the most basic levels.
That’s why I put at least 3 power armor sets at the base
Noob . Your minutemen are only as strong as you make them . I have over 200+ well armed and well armored settlers and 3+ artillery on every settlement i can heavy hit anyone on the map with minutemen soldiers or artillery
Do you think its just gonna get better magically? HUGE BRAIN 😂😂😂😂😂
You literally have 100% the power to better them 😂😂😂😂😂 its your own fault
I force people to dress appropriately. Then somehow they show up in crap again sometimes. Once I started using mods my game crashed so much that I refuse to play it anymore until I get a PC built. I wanna cry
I hope u get a decent PC soon so u can have fun playing Fallout 4 w/mods and generally playing pc games all together 🙃👌🖥️⌨️🖱️
the fact that you apparently got fo4 running on either a laptop or a potato is remarkable
@@Romanticoutlaw its quite easy to run on a potato, if you can stand 800x600 or lower. Played the game two times, one institute and one BOS ending. I recommend some graphics mods to help reduce the texture file size so that it doesn't strain 1GB Vram cards.
Have you tried we are the Minutemen a really great mod
Your problem isn’t your pc it’s the load order and comparability of your mods you can’t just blindly throw any file into your game directory and expect it to work
The only redeeming quality is the artillery the sometimes works.
The minute men give artillery barrage as well as a flare gun to summon minutemen.
The minutemen: proceeds to kill hostile Brotherhood of steel soldiers in power armor and not in powrr armor
The minute men gave us mortors, they can be as stronger then a Fatman if you build enough mortors
They are really slow to fire, so unless you find an entire horde of supermutants is not worth to fire them. The only way to make them useful is in the mission against the Brotherhood of Steel if you are enemy of them
@@TasukuMunchathe great thing about the minute men though is you don’t have to be enemies with any other faction but the institute
@@dynguskhan Honestly, Preston makes so little sense, from his lines I see that he's not against the institute, just Shawn. But yet he makes you blow the institute and create another nuclear crater in Boston, justifying himself with ''It was War!!'' and then being angry at you if you didn't let the people on the institute to escape.
Thats when i go into making armor and forcing then to wear it
The minutemen are a blank canvas that you're supposed to mod. You're technically a faction leader.
Thanks now i need a Mutants are shrek mod
I feel like there shouldve been a mission to upgrade the minutemans standard loadout. Where you can have influence over the armour and arms the minutemen actually use.
You can quickly and cheaply equip more soldiers with leather, or you can invest into some combat armor for recource cost. You couldve taken over an old weapons plant or something to begin standardizing on some lasermuskets or maybe have a little room to move up to lazer rifles or some balistic weapons after you had taken the castle back. The minutemen just feel forgotten and neglected tbh
Every play though I exploit Abernathy farm for food to feed my sweat- I mean workshop.
Hey they gave me Power Armour🔥🔥
I just wish they could have at least fixed Preston Garvey always asking me "if we can have that talk now". Regardless if you tell him you're not that way.
With mods that all changes and it is now my favorite faction
The minutemen got drip and a castle
Sole Survivor: *looks at preston for 0.0001 milliseconds*
Preston: ThErEs A sEtTlEmEnT tHaT nEeDs YoUr HeLp
Beautiful video
The minute men is your faction, what it brings to the table is up to you
For some reason I’m always stuck with Sanctuary Hills mainly focusing on that settlement then any of the others.
“The minute men are just Preston Garvey and You” 😂🤣🤣
I kina wish Bethesda fleshed this faction out more because it's meant to be our faction we built from the ground up. Since all the other ones are really established by the time we meet them.
The entire point is you fleshing them out how you want to.
At least you have AN artillery that you Will never use
I use it all the time
@@Mampfie i used it on a rad roach
Because it's just as much of a danger to you as it is to whoever you're firing it at. It is ridiculously overkill.
@@TheOriginalJphyper no such thing as overkill
@@TheOriginalJphyper it's just so dangerous to you because bethesda messed up, you cant throw it far enough because it hits an invisible wall. i fixed that with mods and use them all the time because its fun.
Everyone mentioning stuff the other factions give just kind of forgetting that the minutemen give you fucking orbital bombardments?
“All the other factions brought SOMETHING to the table…”
The Railroad:
Microwave Rights
@@kirkhonor09x15 Microwave rights hahaha
Facts!
You don’t need armor just hit your shots kid😂
I get PTSD everytime I hear, "Another settlement needs your help."
Hehehe I love it 😂👌 “I outRANK you, PRESSTON!” 😂 much love and respecc from the Misty Mountains of North Carolina 🙏💜👽
That is the best description of the Minutemen I've ever heard
Laughs in mortar strike, the last minute gauss rifle, outnumbering the enemies ammo with people, and a never ending laser musket.
One of the unexpected highlights of a large quest mod was a point where you learn more about Preston and get to blow his head off as an option after confronting him about his past. He’s part of the decoration at sanctuary hills now on a cross above my house
Brotherhood of Steel: we have Liberty Prime, an airship, and the largest arsenal of Power Armor in the Commonwealth.
Railroad: we have eyes and ears everywhere.
Institute: we have teleporters, an army of cyborgs, and a fortified underground bunker complex that survived a nuclear war.
Minutemen: I got a musket, a howitzer, and a beer, and I win.
I never thought the minutemen would have such a big armory
Take down the Prydwen with cannons is OP
What they bring to the table are multiple settlements and it's not just you and Preston, it's EVERY person in EVERY one of those settlements.
What about Arty?Its pretty cool.
But yea.Bethesdq had a chance to make an EPIC faction from minuetmans!
I think building settlements with dlc packs is really fun, I love seeing Marcy fight one of my custom war machines
So sort of like the real Minutemen, who took on the Kingdom of Great Britain.
I turned every settlement into artillery stations that had no less than 20 turrets guarding each.
I usually have mods that changes their outfits to military fatigues with light-sturdy combat armour, increased patrols depending how many settlements you have and pipe guns swapped out for combat rifles, hunting rifle and 10 mils.
"they bring.. something to the table"
Minutemen mortars:
I feel like you could make them into the strongest faction with a shit ton of work artillery at every settlement ive only played through the institutes story line because im evil though kill everyone and chill in literally pardise compared to the common wealth.
Coming back to this after my first mod playthrough and the minutemen are badass (modded) aside from you being the one doing everything when the flares work they come stacked
Makes ya feel like an army leader or some shit
Artillery is fun when you have one in every settlement. You get coverage almost over the whole commonwealth
The minutemen are just the friendly neighborhood watch that constantly blast the house building song wherever they go
If you just bypass the initial meeting with Preston and dont save those fools, you never have to deal with them lol
I feel like even the gunners have more potential as a main faction 😂
Then you havent put nearly enough time into the minutemen, they are hands down the most powerful of all factions if enough effort is put into them. They can literally steamroll all the other factions combined.
@dalehammers4425 i know, but that still doesn't make them feel like a main faction y'know.
Weak Faction?
No. *Kings of the Battle!! Minutemen Artillery!!*
Their favorite song is Commonwealth Boy - Crank Dat Laser Musket
This guy just straight ignored the minutemen artillery.
Downloaded this cool mod that actually made the minute men a well put together army with vertibirds, re-colored gunner amor, power armor, and improved weapons. It’s nice to have that and it makes sense instead of just have the completed army be rag tag no matter where you are in the story
Elder Maxson after hearing radio freedom 24/7 from the castle
“Brings nothing” tell that to my reinforcements and fucking ARTILLERY
The laser musket better not be pre-war tech cus I’m can not imagine soldiers cranking and cranking rifles on the battlefield.
I love this faction because of the fact when you have an entire army you are the only one that can deal with the settlements problems every 15 seconds
For the Minutemen a mod I use is called militarized Minutemen which at least gives them actual equipment in the form of a military uniform and gives them similar level lists to the brotherhood (minus power armor) so when you use the flare gun you actually have armed and armored people to help you, and something else is if you put a artillery piece at every single settlement you have coverage basically wherever