Hi there I am at the part of the quest where I have to go up the hill to try and kill Legate Lanius and I have full health and can only get him down a couple bars before I get absolutely destroyed by him, my barter and speech skills aren't high enough to make him come to a peaceful agreement, HELP PLEASE?!

Here is how I managed to beat him. My speech skill isn't high enough either.

I laid a path of frag mines. You have to mark where it goes into speech mode and start laying them down just before there and back up as you lay out all the mines you have...Frag/Plasma. I kicked it off with a plasma grenade from the rock on the other side of the path.

Bug/Glitch? I purposely overlapped mines, so when one went, they all went at the "T" junction. I also at that time, hit the Legate with another plasma grenade -- if I wasn't hitting him, then he was going to be the new "Burning Man" while I took him down. Oddly, the combination of the mines, and the grenade, launched him in the air and he came down....came down dead hard. I got lucky there, and it was kinda cool to watch him launch up like a roman candle His buddies took out Cass and I went through nearly all my chems, but the Multi-plas and I finished them, and the belated reinforcements.

My advice, look in your inventory and see what you have that may work for you. I think bottlecap mines would be ftw, if I had made any.

Took me over 10 tries to get it.

And now it appears that the door to his tent is bugged because of how he died? I get "That door is locked from the other side"...it is a bloody tent, not freakin ft knox.

GL

Thanks for the advice, However I only have guns and the lance that electrocutes them or w/e and I can't get out of it so yeaahh Im scewed, aint I?

I sniped the guards in the towers prior to entering the camp, then with Veronica's help took down the two guards just inside the entrance, locked the gate with the dogs so they could not attack, went into sneak mode and started sniping everyone in the lower camp. Once they were all dead I went up the hill slowly in sneak mode until the legate was visible and without talking to him at all I proceeded to head shot him in vats until he went down (4 shots I think). Yea the tent is locked up tighter than for Knox when he dies (no idea why).

Veronica who? I am alone and if I put on the legion armour only 3 guys come after me it's just him with the knife that gets me ;(

I had exactly the same problem. What I did is crouched far away until I was hidden and sniped him in the head and killed him. Also drink water (from an irradiated puddle) to put your health to max.

Just completed it, All I done was sit in a corner, hit him once with a sniper then he ran to me and got stuck in a hole. FTW.

I'm playing on very easy and this fight is impossible. From where I am, I can see 4 people on the screen.
2 guys behind the Legate. One in the tower to his left that I can't get a clear shot on.
When the fight starts, a ton more guys run in from nowhere (crappy move, the guy is hard enough on his own). This difficulty is not doing what it says on the tin.
Oh, and then you eventually make him not attack you but his buddies still do and they're practically invincible?

Anyone post a video of them completing this fight?

Oh, and he can run off and regain full HP? Really?
One of the classic "Do Nots" of game design. *sigh*

Gobi Sniper rile, psycho, med-x and 2 crit headshots...dead. Second time Cannibal Johnson and 2 BoS paladins followed me the whole way to the Legate, I'm not sure if that was bug, but made it even easier.

Armor penetrating rounds.

Everyone there is wearing heavy armor, need to punch through it.

He's still a tough nut to crack but this made it a TON easier.