I'm not sure, but I'd guess at least the anti-venom. But iirc his claim was that he finished repconn at lvl 6 or 8 (can't remember which, might've been 6), ran the club down to the cazzies and because of its long reach and dmg he killed them all and leveled up to lvl 10 in the process from all the +50xp. He did not say how long it took him or what armor he was wearing or what aids if any etc.

He may have been fighting Young Cazadors at the wind farm then.

Rebar club actually one of the more practical melee weapons (easy to get, decent cool down, decent damage, only 9lbs).

10mm SMG with lots of ammo. Several hundred of normal a hundred or so AP and another hundred HP. Allows fast movement and destroys all the small stuff. Cadzador special, use HP ammo.

Weaponry:
-10mm submachine/ w. mods (For close range 1v1 fights)
-All American ( For low/mid lvl foes at mid/long range)
-Riot Shotgun/ Dinner Bell ( I just like shotguns ^^)
-Anti-Materiel Rifle (For the nastier stuff like Deathclaws, Super Muties etc)
-Maria/ Lucky ( Just for show )
-Sniper Rifle/w. mods or Hunting rifle/w. mods ( For mid/high lvl foes at long range)
-Vance's 9mm Sub ( I'd swear to god, that gun is the very defination of spraying xD)

Armor
-1st. Recon Beret
-Sunglasses
-NCR Ranger combat armor

Aid
-Anything that might be usefull

Ammo
- I just carry random amounts of ammo with me

Sheesh... all the sniper rifle addicts here... sniper rifle sniper rifle sniper rifle... dinnerbell oh god lol.

Meh sniper rifle is for new fallout players, too easy with that insane x5 but oh well. Whatever helps you sleep at night .

Personally, I think guns are way too easy especially 75/100 guns, so I go for something that I find needs a bit more finesse and strategy on veryhard+hardcoe.

I don't want to hassle myself with ammo and casings and lead and all that other crap as well as perks I can just forget all together, so, my set up is:

Bounty Hunter Duster (subdermal and 1x Toughness)
Authority sunglasses
VanGraff Combat Armor (versus heavy enemies like brotherhood, hitsquad, deathclaw)

SuperSledge (Oh Baby!)
Displacer Glove (Pushy)
Ballistic Fist
Shishkebab
Chainsaw
Thermic Lance


Aids:

Stimpak
Radx
Radaway
Doctor's Bag

Anything else is just useless deadweight that I sell... no reason to have any of them around IMHO just cluttering up my inv.

Weapons:
-Marie
-Mysterious Magnum
-Scoped Hunting Rifle
-Assault Carbine with extended mags
-Hunting Shotgun

Armor:
-Armored Vault 13 suit (at start)
-1st Recon Beret
-Leather Armor (when I roam the wastes)
-Viva Las Vegas (when I take a stroll on the Strip)

Aids:
-Sunset drink
-Stimpacks
-Radaway/Rad-X
-Doctor's Bags
-Repair Kits

here are mine. both level 30, non-hardcoe, difficulty changes depending on how much ammo i have

1. Tatyana (F, Evil/V Evil, Legion, uses "guns")
Veronica and Rex (Rey's brain)

Casual: Benny's suit
Battle: T51-B Armor
Always: 1st Recon Beret and Sunglasses

Hotkey (clockwise from top)
ammo types
Dinner Bell
Maria
This Machine
Healing item
AMR
Ranger Sequoia
Silenced 12.7 Pistol

2. Kain (M, Good/V Good, NCR, uses E weapons)
Boone (recon armor) and Eddie (upgraded laser)

Casual: Boomers Flightsuit
Battle: Van Graff Combat Armor (will get cover armor later)
Always: Desperado Cowboy Hat and Authority Glasses (i hate the AGs but with the hat and his capt. price 'stache they look kinda nice)

Hotkey (clockwise from top)
ammo types
Plasma Caster
Pulse Gun
AER14 Prototype
Healing item
YCS-186
Plasma Defender
Laser RCW

(also has the C-Finder with a bunch of ammo from glitch)

CZ57 Avenger,
Oh Baby!
T-51b Power Armor.

I wear these in all situations.

Weapon repair kits.
[censored]load of 5mm ammo.
Stimpacks.

That's it, pretty much.

My explosives character:

Armor:
Merc Troublemaker outfit
Trooper helmet

Weapons:
Around 15 sticks of dynamite
Brass knuckles (close quarters)
9mm pistol (backup weapon)

Aid:
Stimpaks (12)
Sunset Sarsaparilla (37)
Antivenom (2)
Caravan Lunch (2)

He started recently. That explains the not exactly efficient equipment.

Armor:
Chinese Stealth Armor
Destroyed Collar
Sherrif's Hat

Weapons:
Hunting Shotgun++
Silenced SMG+

Aid:
None

Ammo:
500 Coin Shot
1283 22LR

That is my loadout currently.

Very Hard/hardcoe/

Installed Mods:
Harder hardcoe Rates (frequently suffer from dehydration, starvation, sleep deprivations),
Expensive Wasteland (all items cost 10x more expensive at merchants),
Populated Wasteland (many more human enemies respawn across the wasteland)


Weapons:
Super Sledge
Rebar Club
Liberator
Trail Carbine
Gobi Campaign Rifle
Ratslayer
Maria
Thump Thump
Love and Hate
10mm silenced pistol with laser sight and extended ammo

Ammo:
5.56mm Standard x100
5.56mm AP x20
.308 Standard x100
.308 AP x10
9mm Standard x30
.44 magnum x50
.25mm grenade x 24
.10mm x 100

Apparel
Reinforced Leather Armor (when armor becomes broken I switch to Combat Armor or reinforced leather, depending on what is on next enemy I kill - lots of replacements available to repair to max)
Benny's Suit
sixy Sleepwear

Aid (Lots of the following, frequently become addicted to everything and get cured of addiction at doctor):
Constantly consume Bighorner Steaks, Brahmin Steaks, Whiskey, Wine, etc., to keep constant +2 STR in order to carry more without becoming encumbered
Jet
Dixon's Jet
lots of alcohol
Stimpaks/Super Stimpaks
Desert Salads
Wasteland Omelets
Buffout
Mentats
Party Mentats
Med-X
Turbo (the best for fighting deathclaws)
Psycho
Slasher
Bleak Venom
Atomic Cocktail (with harder hardcoe rates, need to sleep much more frequently, often where there is no bed available)
Coyote Tobacco
Purified Water/Dirty Water - often run out in locations where there are no faucets and need to hunt for prickly pear fruit or barrel cactus fruit)
No Doctor's Bags (make the game too easy IMO, so frequently all limbs are crippled)

Companions (just use them for their perks and companion quests, keep them waiting at their home locations so they don't die):
Cass (allows for constant +2 STR, equivalent to two implants or intense training points)
ED-E

Key Perks:
Rad Child (keep constantly at Deadly or Critical Rad Poisoning level for +8HP/sec or +6HP/sec regen - 60-80 times more effective than the regen implant which is only +1HP every ten seconds)
Super Slam
Stonewall
Toughness x2
Silent Running
Ninja
Jury Rigger
Cannibal
(next perk Hand Loader)

Challenge Perks
Abominable (rank 2)
bug Stomper (rank 3)
Lord Death (rank 3)
Camel of the Mojave
Dine and Dash
Fast Times
Free Radical
Machine Head (rank 1)
Melee Hacker (rank 2)
Mutant Massacrer (rank 2)
Tough Guy

S: 9
P: 6
E: 6
C: 1
I: 8
A: 5
L: 10

Barter 9
Energy 24
Explosives 28
Guns 80
Lockpick 80
Medicine 40
Melee 82
Repair 90
Science 55
Sneak 80
Speech 29
Survival 70
Unarmed 32

My long-range guns character:

WEAPONS
-AMR with M rounds
-Gobi Campaign Sniper Rifle with JSP round
-Fully modded Weathered 10mm Pistol
-This Machine
-Dinner bell with magnum rounds
-Adeline BB Gun
-12.7 mm Pistol w/ Silencer

ARMOR
-1st Recon Beret
-Authority Shades
-CSA/Reinforced leather armor

And I use the NCR radio to get a ranger for cannon fodder:)

Reinforced leather armor or VaultSec armor... Mobility takes priority over protection. Maneuvering is the key to any victory in a fight.

Melee weapon is http://www.newvegasnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=34726.

My "Sidearm" for killing the occasional vermin is usually either a 10mm pistol or a laser pistol (denerfed, keep in mind).

For killing lots of vermin, I have a 10mm SMG.

For slugging it out with mooks, I have http://www.newvegasnexus.com/downloads/images/35678-1-1289695596.jpg.

For really laying on the hurt up close, I have the http://www.newvegasnexus.com/downloads/images/35678-2-1289695597.jpg.

For blowing mook heads off, I have the Hunting Rifle all tricked out (Sniper Rifle is a gamebreaker, I will not use it)

For blowing Deathclaw heads off, I have the Gauss Rifle.

Armor
-Reinforced combat armor
-Reinforced combat helmet
-Rebreather (only wear it during swimming)

Weapons
-Marksman carbine
-10 mm pistol with all mods (good for sneak kills)
-Combat knife
-Frag granades
-Puls granades
-c4
-Detonator
-Binoculars

Ammo
-.223 (i hate it when guns break down fast)
-10mm JHP

Weapons:
10mm SMG
Ballistic Fist
Euclid's C-Finder
Gatling Laser
Gobi Campaign Scout Rifle
Mysterious Magnum
Super Sledge
YCS/186

Armor: T-51b Power Armor and Helmet
Benny's Suit, Veteran Ranger Combat Helmet, and Authority Glasses for The Strip

Meds and Chems:
Antivenom
Buffout
Cateye
Dixon's Jet
Doctor's Bag
Fixer
Hydra
Jet
Med-X
Mentats
Psycho
Rad-X
Rad-Away
Rebound
Steady
Stealth Boy
Stimpak
Super Stimpak

Armour - Van Graff Combat Armour

Weapons - Hunting Shotgun, Hunting Rifle + scope, Combat Knife and 10mm Pistol + laser sight (the four-weapon backpack rule, don't ever break it!).

Misc - Purified Water and various food items... and LOTS of whisky (see below).

...and Cass, of course.

EW Character 19th (Normal/hardcoe):

Laser RCW+
Laser Rifle+
Plasma Pistol (holdout)
YCS-186

Vault 13 Armored Jumpsuit
MP Trooper Helmet
Brotherhood T-51b Armor and Helmet (for when it hits the fan)

ECP: 250
EC: 75
MF: 150


Sniper Character 26th (Hard/hardcoe):

Sniper Rifle+
Ratslayer
All American
10mm Pistol+ (holdout)

Regular Combat Armor
Bandanna
Ranger Casual Outfit

5.56: 250
.308: 150
10mm: 60


Both characters usually carry:

8 Purified Water
8 Gecko Steaks
2 Stealth Boys
2 Doctor's Bags

Anything weightless I just keep in my inventory.

Anything that has 0 weight I carry I am in verry hard / hardcoe

ARMOR =
Recon

I somehow glitched Boons beret he has one too ( hat ) add to criticle chance

Sunglasses cool factor

I carry the super sixy sleep wear for conversations and luck
and I carry a vault 3 utility suit for added lockptick and repair
a science lab coat for added science
Barter clothes and hat for added barter


Weapons =

That gun for pistol

Riot shotgun for close up

chainsaw for Melee

Modded silenced sniper rifle

4 C4 +detonator

5 grenades for pantsing

Pulse gun for Bots

AMMO =

300rds = 308
100rds ap 308
100rds hp 308
50rds JSP 308

75rds 12 ga buckshot magnum
25rds 12 ga slugs

100 rds ap 5.56
100rds hp 5.56

250 epacks for pulse gun

I have about 1000rds of every kind of ammo broken down which has no weight

AID =

Geckokobobs 7 they are 300 or so food and 150 water

5 purified water

All the Rad X and Rad away I can find .

100 stimpacks
28 super stimpacks

2 wepon repair kits

I use lot of drugs and stack them ( using multiple drugs ) Ie Jet + slasher jet gives 15 ap boost slasher gives 30 for a total 45 ap boost

I leave all my extra stuff in a box near the soloon in good springs an collect stuff as I travel to put in the box . About one time a week I carry all the flowers and food type stuff to the camp fire near the good springs source and make food and drugs then I put most back in the Box for later use . I create about 20 doctors bags and weapon repair kits a week I keep all my guns and gear at 100% all the time

My loadouts often change depending on what kind of situation I know I'm going into, but my most common loadout is:

Armour:
Combat Armour Mk II
Combat Helmet Mk II
Rebreather

Clothes:
Pre-War Hat
Pre-War Parkstroller Outfit (Can't find anything that looks better, yet)

Weapons:
Binoculars (Don't often carry scoped weapons, unless I know I'm going up against Deathclaws or Super Mutants)
Hunting Shotgun+ (For close range or anything that needs some more firepower)
That Gun (Only use .223 rounds for it)
This Machine

Aid:
All the Stimpacks I can get my hands on
27 Doctors Bags, Small Frame trait means I need them more often
All the Chems I can get my hands on, but rarely use them
More RadAway and Rad-X than I'll ever be able to use
10 Weapon Repair Kits
5 Stealth Boys

Ammo:

275 .223
400 .308
190 12 Gauge Slug

I also carry plenty of Legion Denarius and components to make more ammo, and never have less than $10,000 NCR Dollars, And I never go ANYWHERE with less than 2000000 caps :disguise:

Leather armor, just cuz it looks bad ass in that Mad Max kinda way. Everything else looks too bulky and awkward.
10mm Pistol fully modded. Damn good gun that gets you through the first half of the game. The 9mm SMG is also great. Ammo is cheap and plentiful and the gun just looks damn cool, especially when you're sporting leather armor. Again, the important thing is to look cool. :disguise:

Late game I like the 12.7mm pistol with silencer and the Anti-Materiel.

Armor: First recon beret
vault security armor
authority sunglasses (just to be awesome)

Weapons: Gobi campaign rifle with jsp hand loads for most things
Ballistic fist for anything but deathclaws
dinner bell
All american

I love unarmed combat, energy weapons are meh, but I always find myself reverting back to my Sniping Guns mindset when I actually want to do well.

Anyway, my typical loadout:

-Reliable rifle, Sniper or just Hunting.
-Standard 10mm pistol
-'nades
-Assault Carbine

-Reinforced Leather Armor
-Sunglasses
-1st Recon Hat

The armor combo actually looks really cool, black with the red beret and silver shades B)

Very Hard hardcoe

1. AMR
2. Brush Gun
3. Light Machine Gun
4. 9mm as fallback

AMR is for toughies and other big game. Brush gun is my "scrub gun" for killing stupid crap I don't want to waste .50 or 5.56 on. LMG is for groups of toughies. 9mm is for scrubbing up and when out of ammo for everything else.

Armor
Body-Reinforced Combat Armor Mark II (It's like heavy medium armor!)
Face-Rebreather (Helps traverse water and look cool)
Head-1st Recon Beret (Stats are helpful, and it helps me remember boone, who got slain by random friendly assassins in Novac before I could recruit him)

Weapons-
Primary-Cowboy Repeater++ (Good damage, plentiful ammo. Will switch to This Machine when I get enough ammo)
Sidearm-.44 Magnum (High power, can sneak into casinos, accurate)
Explosives-Fragmentation grenades(for groups) and C4(When s*** goes down)
Close Quarters-Hunting shotgun w/slugs/long tube (Slugs help hit, regardless of range, and the shotgun is very powerful)
Melee-Combat knife (Rarely use it, but still it's nice to have)

Medicine
Healing over time-Sunset Sarsaparilla (Star caps, plus good healing value)
Instant healing- Stimpacks (When in combat, or in danger)
Radiation protection (Usually just radaway after, don't use rad-x)

Other
Rose of Sharon Cassidy (I can't carry everything I find)