I was wanting to assign my Minutemen into T-60 Power Armor, in attempts to make the Minutemen similar to the Brotherhood of Steel. Come to find out I can't do that, very upsetting to me for such a minuscule feature not being added. Is it wrong or silly for me to ask Bethesda to add such a mechanic?

Yes that is odd that you can't do that. But if you just leave a it out in the open one of them might use it when the settlement gets attacked.

Ah, they might do it, but ugh I would just like to just tell them to get in it. (The chances of Sanctuary getting attacked is slim)

Thanks for the reply, subscribed to your channel by the by

If you play on PC, chances are a mod will come out or might already be out that would let you assign PA to settlers. I would hope that a future DLC gives us more to do as the "Leader" of the Minute Men. Such as getting people to join, assigning them to protect settlements and so on.

I think it would be great to have the Caste protected by people in Power Armour. Maybe even make a deal with the Atom Cats to custom paint the armor. Have one of them come to a location like the Caste to paint Minute Men colors and such on the PA. I have well over a dozen PA already and I could have a lot more than that if I didn't stop collecting it. So why not outfit settlers/minute men with it?

I play on Xbox one (hopefully mods come soon) and I totally agree with what you're saying. I really wish that you could put any paint on any Power Armor, like the Minutemen paint on the T-60, hopefully Bethesda actually takes our feedback and makes the game so much cooler!

Bethesda have been rolling out patches on PC, which includes stuff like telling you what settlers are assigned to. Im assuming they'll patch this in or one-up it in DLC (like allowing you to make robots for a settlement. Id take a sentry over a powerarmoured nitwit anyday)


These updates wont be as frequent for console but will come in-bulk. Its standard stuff with bethesdas games, nowdays; PC tests the fixes, player requests and updates, console wait.

Thanks for the update. I personally take the Powered Armored nitwit because it's still human

I leave a bunch of PA at my settlements, but they usually hop out to go to bed even if they do use them in an attack. I actually lost one frame once when a raider jumped in a suit lol.

Chance is, raider might use it as well. In which case you will loose suit of power armor. Well, it's frame at last.

if u want settlers to use the power armor put the frame near a guard post , ( unconfirmed ) but at least a raider won't take it

also be prepared to repair all pieces after each attack : 6 pieces * 21 settlers