Ive just killed General Oliver but am surronded by heavy troopers, what is the best way to kill them. Ive spent the whole afternoon trying this. Infact the game has crashed about 10 times doing this . Any advice please. Hopefully Ive nearly completed the game.

You are at the end of the game . . . there should be nothing that is a real challenge to your character by now. Just open your inventory and take a buffout/jet/med-x/psycho/slasher/ultrajet/rocket/rebound/mentats combo and throw in absinthe, mooshine and nuka cola quartz and victory. Oh, some sugar bombs and super stimpacks to.

Load armor piercing bullets in your best gun (or 45-70 ammo) and aim at the head of one Power trooper. Fire away! As soon as you take a few hits, go into inventory and consume a half dozen stimpacks and a bunch of food water . . . return to game, keep firing at heads one at a time and returning to inventory for more healing as soon as you get hit once or twice. Whittle the opposition down by head shots one trooper at a time.

The way Fallout allows you to "cheat" with pausing the game and eating/healing . . . really, there is no challenge even at the hardest difficulties.

Good advice.

However as the OP is need of advice the pip boy pause is less a cheat.
More a tool for those that find the game impossible for any reason, the same for healing.

I don't heal in or before combat at all, rarely use chems if ever, but if anyone says it's "cheating" and should not be in a game.
I tend to feel sorry for those people as they can't appreciate others may need it to enjoy or complete the game.

Yeah, don't get me wrong. I certainly don't think its "cheating" . . . I play Fallout constantly using pause and healing. I get through all combat that way.

The thing I enjoy most about Fallout is loading up on chems, swapping out weapons and obliterating my opponents in a variety of gruesome ways utilizing VATS. :flamethrower:

VATS is the best thing a RPG has invented. Pity its broken in NV. I loved the way you could even hit grenades in the air in the original FO3 before the first patch. Betheseda why did you take this away from me?

Use the layout to your advantage. IIRC, there are a lot of small rooms and corridors you can use to lure them, and take them down one at a time. Also, if you're a melee character, a Super Sledge will take them apart. If not, load up your best gun with AP ammo and aim for the head. Take all the chems you have (addiction is a non-issue now), and go all-out with the stimpaks.