Talk:The Tunnelers

Suggested Tactics
Having gone through Lonesome Road a couple of times, I thought I'd suggest some techniques for passing through the area with the Tunneler Queen. Other thoughts are welcome before this gets finalized into a more detailed walkthrough.


 * Satchel charges (for a character competent in demolitions). This is how I got past it the first time.  I probably could have done it a bit more elegantly than I did, but in essence I moved up just close enough for them to pop up on the HUD, then laid a bunch of them wile backpedaling.  By the time they got to me, enough of them were dead that I wasn't swarm-killed instantly.  Other ground explosives could work also, but satchel charges was all I had at the time.
 * Incendiary grenades. The damage-over-time can be quite helpful.  For my second character, I opened up with one of these and then used...
 * Blade of the West (for a character competent in melee). The special VATS move this weapon has is excellent for sending Tunnelers flying away from you and can keep you from getting swarmed.  The perk Super Slam! will make this much more effective, and Stonewall will avoid the knockdown from Tunnelers themselves while adding to your survivability in general.  I had both perks when I was facing this area, and it went surprisingly well.

(The Wasteland Inventor 06:46, October 10, 2011 (UTC))