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If you finish Veronica's quest and she leaves she will be ok if you kill BOS I believe, may be wrong though.
She is. As long as you comete her mission first and dont shoot first in the quest, ur ok.
That reminds me, anyone got any advice on a cowboy taking down 3 paladins wearing light armor?
I wouldn't be so sure, as I've heard conflicting reports on it. If you simply don't take her along when you go to kill off the BoS, she's fine. If you do though, I've heard conflicting reports, with some people saying she's fine with the self-destruct sequence but NOT with manually murdering everyone, or that you absolutely need Idolized rep (difficult to get with the BoS) to avoid her leaving.
And if you're talking about the firing squad that hates what Veronica's trying to do....I've yet to have a character survive that the first try, bar my pacifists who talked their way out. If you can really only rely on guns (no unarmed or melee option) then take cover and aim for their guns first-thing, THEN worry about finishing the kill.