It was glorious. Fast travelled to Abernathy Farms - late night game time and very dark, barely started moving towards patch of corn I planted and 6 feral ghouls came screaming in at a sprint from the West.

I barely had time to bring up my SMG and start firing when the whole night lit up like a war zone with tracer light - had mounted 4 HMG turrets on top of the Abernathy Farms structure, facing West as I figured that's where I saw occasional NPCs moving north-south and danger would come from that direction.

No walls, no guard posts, farm hasn't had time to fort up, just the HMGs up on the roofline - and they blazed away like crazy, cutting down those ghouls.

I think I had a small -O- at that moment. It was probably top 5 gaming sight I've had - I'm sure would have looked less impressive in day time but at night, had no idea those HMGs lit up firing tracer rounds because that's what it looked like.

Playing on survival and pretty sure without those HMGs, 6 feral ghouls in my face would have killed me. Good news is the HMGs were there and saved me. Bad news is the uncaring machines shot up my corn patch.

So factoid for people that did not know because attacks happened off screen when you were not there - it is not necessarily the monsters that damaged your plants, water pump, etc - it could be your own machine guns because my HMGs shot the hell out of my corn patch, and the animation was awesome - actual corn stalks were shot off in half, laying on the dirt, etc.

It was worth repairing my corn planation just to see that happen.

Haha, awesome.

That sounds pretty damn cool to me. Thanks for sharing that.

Well I finally got attacked at the castle but it glitched so there is a endless amount of super mutants. But it's still epic none the less.

I had a similar moment on the same farm, actually. I was minding my own bizness, building some chain fencing, when the farmers started running around like crazy shooting at something (no idea what). Then the Brahmin went nuts as a Virtibird swooped in and dropped a bunch of BOS out into the farm and they started fighting stuff too. I was stood there with my fence as the world was going to crap around me. Awesome moment.

No idea what any of them were fighting cos the corpses had gone by the time I got to them lol

Ive had Oberland Watch, the Catle and one other place attacked while I was there.

No crop massacres though.

What level were you when that attack happened?

use shadow play to record these events! alt-f10 is your friend!!

Ive had my castle attacked... they didnt even get to the gates

im hoping i can be there when my sanctuary is attacked... so many turrets and my settlers are decked out in combat armour

also i possibly left em 4 sets of power armour with fusion cores (5 when im not using mine) after i noticed they hop into it during an attack (a bloatfly got too close once and had the whole town pissed at it)