Hi all, I am planning a new playthrough of FNV. I have played ith through twice on normal and once on hardcoe. I'm going very hard difficulty this time but not hardcoe as i found it to be more of a pain in the a**e than a challenge. I want the emphasis to be on Melee, Explosives and Guns because on my other playthroughs I have focused on just 1 and want to keep it interesting this time and have the ability to change things up a bit when i need to. This is my plan so far.

S.P.E.C.I.A.L

Strength 8 Raised to 9 with implant and then to 10 when needed from whiskey to maximize melee damage.
Perception 5 Raised to 6 with implant to pick up Better Criticals perk at lvl 16.
Endurance 5 Just enough for the implants I want.
Charisma 1 Tagging speech and eventually raising to 45 so I can pass lvl 50 speech checks with Benny's Suit.
Intelligence 8 Gives me 14 skill points from levels 1-4 then with educated perk 16 points from 5-30 = 458 skill points total
Agility 8 Raised to 9 with Small Frame trait and then 10 with implant.
Luck 5 Raised to 6 with implant for Better Criticals perk.

Tagged Skills Explosives, Melee and Speech

Skills:

Barter 06 + 44 = 50
Energy Weapons 16
Explosives 31 + 55 = 86 + 12 from 4 skill books = 98 + 2 from PER implant = 100.
Guns 22 + 64 = 86 + 12 from 4 skill books = 98 + 2 from AGI implant = 100.
Lockpick 16 + 70 = 86 + 12 from 4 skill books = 98 + 2 from PER implant = 100.
Medicine 20 + 50 = 70
Melee 35 + 49 = 84 + 12 from 4 skill books = 96 + 2 from STR implant = 98 + 2 from whiskey = 100.
Repair 20 + 61 = 81 = 9 from 3 skill books = 90
Science 20 + 50 = 70
Sneak 22 + 64 = 86 + 12 from 4 skill books = 98 + 2 from AGI implant = 100.
Speech 21 + 12 = 33 + 12 from 4 skill books = 45
Survival 14
Unarmed 14

Traits

Small Frame - Wild Wasteland (never done it yet)

Perks

Confirmed Bachelor

Educated

Demolition Expert

Bloody Mess

Toughness x2

Finesse

Splash Damage

Jury Rigging

Action Boy/Girl x2

Better Criticals

Ninja

Grim Reaper's Sprint

Nerves of Steel

My worry is that i haven't added the Adamantium Skeleton perk to offset Small Frame and would really like to get the othe 2 ranks of demolition expert but that means dropping 3 of my perks. The perks have been picked mainly for good crits and using VATS a lot. (Love carving up Benny's henchmen with Chance's Knife in VATS soon as there off the elevator)

Obviously just playing vanilla as I don't have the DLC for XBOX only for PC which is broken. I'm picking up all the skill books i need as i know their locations and have had them before. The plan was to use Reinforced Leather Armour until I get the vault security armour. I was going to take Cass with me for the whiskey perk but can easily just find the 2 points gained to melee elsewhere I was going to take Raul at first but figured with such a wide variety of weapons Jury Rigging was needed and i think that negates the need for Raul.

Any tips on what to do here would be great. Any advice on the build at all would be appreciated.