My strategy is to sit in a room, let Preston and the Minutemen attack the queen and wait until they've killed her. Is this a viable strategy or am I just being stupid?

It might take a while but since Preston can't die you should be able to just wait it out. I personally couldn't stand being that inactive, I hide inside the castle and take popshots with the most explosive weapon i have.

Inside the castle there is a missle launcher, and a flamethrower, if that helps...

I personally got up close and personal with my modded combat shotgun..

That's kind of what I did. I didn't completely hide though, I waited on the walls, used my only mini nuke and a bunch of frag grenades while Preston kept it looking the other way. Before it could turn around and see me I sprinted away and hid. Rinse and repeat. I just wasn't patient enough to let Preston do it alone, but if he could that would be fine with me. Let him help a settlement himself for once.

Always running backwards while shooting and finding obstacle to slow down that punk.


Spray n Pray gun works well to kill the hatchlings.

Two shots from the Fat man and she down.

Might be a good plan to find another Queen, and test your theories.


Bring Preston, in a red shirt.

Explosive Combat Shotgun is a strategy that works extremely well.

Getting up on the top of the wall and staying constantly in motion is how I've always taken care of that one.

I second this. The Explosive Combat Shotgun is almost always a good strategy. You don't even have to aim it. You just point it in the general direction and it handles the rest.

You know what's hard? Trying to fight one with a pure melee character. I avoided that folly and just collected as many mines and grenades as I could before Taking Independence.

Missle launcher works very well, if you have an fatman use it.

Leave an pile of mines at the beach also nice at least to hurt and slow down.

If you have a weapon with a bleeding function, that can be useful too - pump as many rounds as you can into her, back off and wait, repeat. I think the bleeding bypasses her armour, and you can do most of your damage while you're not in her line of sight.

Bottlecap Mines, Queeny never leaves the Pond. This can be effective in the other locations with the Queens.

like i posted in another thread just yesterday:

- if u have a melee build that means u have strength so use heavy weapons on her

- if u don't have heavy weapons buy some

The problem is, enemies always attack you when there's any possibility to get to you. And that queen spawns hatchlings by the number. They will come for you and make you miserable. They come for you in any case, regardless if you're taking an active or inactive role.