I see this come up when people dicuss the Brotherhood. No, just no. Since when does the Brotherhood [censored], pillage and burn down settlements (the only such things where the Pitt which was a different case and a few members reaction to a option in a companion quest)? Do they deliberately slaughter innocent people? If anything, you are better of trying to say the Enclave are raiders (which they are not) considering they gun people for having a barely noticable mutation. They take technology? Only one ending slide for NV suggests they go and steal energy weapons/robots but otherwise their main priority is superweapons. They are formed on a basis of order and duty. How does this mean they are raiders?

Well there not far off. I mean the real brotherhood only care for technology and will likely kill for it if people refuse to give it to them. Also they see any one outside there ranks as un worthy and will not help the wasteland at all.
but I would not say there raiders as they dont kill every one they see and etc...... but I see them more as a bunch of tech hungry insane sociopaths cultist who follow a codex. So I just kill them on sight or just use them till I have no use for them.
But there not raiders!

There more like the Unity but with different goals.

It depends on which chapter you're talking about. The Midwest and Lyon's Brotherhood are not raiders.

The rest of the chapters hoard technology from outsiders, sometimes killing them to do-so, because their codex tells them to.

The Brotherhood of Steel, the orginal guys, made it their mission to keep the good pre-war tech out of the hands of others. They still traded with people and they left those alone that didn't have anything they wanted.

Veronica tells us that over time the Brotherhood have made enemies of everyone. That didn't happen because the Brotherhood was all sunshine an lollipops. They pissed eveyone off because they raided and stole from people.

If all you're doing is going by what Lyons does, then you aren't getting the full picture. Lyons isn't the typical Brotherhood.

The reason why in Fallout New Vegas, the BoS seem to be focused on "super weapons" is because the Brotherhood is in such badshape they feel only a super weapon will save them. Energy Weapons and Power Armour simply don't do it anymore. Veronica even tells us this, she says something like "Time was all you needed was a power armour and you could get whatever you wanted." The thing is now other factions have advanced to the point were they can stand up against the BoS and win.



The Midwestern Brotherhood are more than just raiders, their extortionists that run a protection racket. They actively went out and built a larger empire (if we can call it that) whereas all other Brotherhood, including Lyons aren't interested in ruling anyone. The MWBoS also used slave labour, put people up on crosses and built gulags.