Ive put a cowboy repeater in her invent...

but she still uses the pistol when I say ranged.

can she only use the pistol and poweglove?

Try giving her the appropriate ammo.

Depends. Which is the more powerful weapon in terms of DAM/DPS/DT? Also, did you give her the required ammo, and make sure the weapon is at least 50% condition?

When I give her a Plasma Rifle and MFCells she'll use it when on ranged. I haven't seen her use a gun yet though. She prefers the Paladin Toaster.

Veronica has an Energy Weapons skill higher than her Guns skill (she is Brtoherhood, after all) so i give Energy Weapons instead of Guns, and she uses them as long as she has ammo (thank you, bulk MF cells). I wonder why her default ranged weapon is a 10mm Pistol instead of a Laser or Plasma pistol?

she has energy skill of 76 and gun skills of :yucky: so giving her a normal gun won't really cut it. I give her plenty energy ammo and the best energy weapon I have when I want her to do range and she always performs well.

Put some armor on her and let her punch her way through the hordes. I tried giving her other weapons to use, but the Fist she has is more than enough for anything this side of a Deathclaw, and she handles those OK if I can lend a hand.

i thought you only had to give companions one bullet and it would last forever?

Dead wrong. Actually companions are more wastfull (?) then you are since they dont keep spent casings/batteries.
As for Veronica, I suggest you just forget about rangedcombat, her unarmed is spectacular! :clap:

this is actually the problem.

veronica punching her way through a hord of armed legion troops is a total immersion killer.

I am not sure why people think Boone is such a bad ass, Veronica would eat Boone's Sandwhich and hand him back the empty lunchbox with a smirk.

What you can try to do is give her an Energy Weapon, as she prefers those to Guns, and make sure it is repaired and she has sufficient ammo.

she uses other weapons, i give her a cowboys repeater and a marksmans rifle and she uses both of em, just stock her up on ammo.

Their default weapons use "Magical Companion Ammo" that never runs out, but weapons you give them use ammo normally.

Ronnie is fun. Give her the incinerator and she uses it very well. She will hit stuff from very far with that puppy. I have learned more about that weapon since she has been using it.

Give her thump thump but watch out, she is a bit crazy with grenades. You can park her at a good location with the sniper rifle then draw baddies towards her. A very useful tactic is some places.

She looks amazing in metal armor, she seems to need about 10 - 12 DT to use clothing. I don't think I'll ever find a dress she will wear ... hi ho.

She does seem to spray bullets and even plasma bolts around pretty randomly... terrible aim. I finally did armor her up and just let her do what she wanted, which was to punch things. So I just do the sniping now.

She was actually pretty good with the sniper, she' no Boone that's for sure. I scrounged up some power armor for her and that lets hers tank about pretty well but she does seem to get poisoned easily. She does punch things real good.

Veronica would explosively dismantle Boone in close quarters fighting, but Boone would shoot her in the head 3 or 4 times before she got that close. Neither one is really "better", they're opposite sides of the same engagement-range coin.

As for why she comes with a 10mm pistol?
1.) She prefers punching things, and her sidearm is just for backup in unusual circumstances.
2.) Energy weapons are less common than firearms. And she's a buying agent for an undercover, actively hunted, despised, massively outnumbered, minority group. Keeping a low profile is high on her mission parameters, which means using what everybody else is using: a 10mm pistol.