Hey guys so in LR do you generally launch the nukes at your enemy(s) or stop the launch. I'm with NCR but generally don't considering we are in a nuclear wasteland and the last thing it needs is more nukes launched at it.

It entirely depends on my playthrough. On my first time through Lonesome Road I was playing a good character so I stopped the launch. The last time I did it I was playing a Great Khan scout who discovered the true nature of the Legion, so I launched nukes at both targets.

If your with House its probably best to stop the nukes.

If your Indy its up to you, but i would nuke both for safety sake.

If your NCR you should nuke Legion, or stop nukes if your afraid of dealing civilian penalty.

If Legion you would [censored] things up for NCR no matter what, so nuke the [censored] [censored] out of them.

Good point except with indy i wouldn't nuke ncr because they are the ones providing for the economy of vegas

Depends:

If legion, dont nuke the ncr cuz that dumb legate would put all of his soldiers thru radiation without any protection.
If NCR, nuke the legion for NCRs own sake (they did send scouts and aint as "all or nothing" as lanius).
If Independent nuke em both to be safe.
If house, dont nuke anyone, the legion is holding the ncr back and stopping them from invading vegas and the ncr is the strips best customers.

I always launch the nukes. Being a Caesar's Legion supporter, I shoot it at the NCR.

I launched a nuke just to feel badass.

Yeah but i go for the Vegas for the people, so killing off Legion then Vegas is safe, but then NCR will take Vegas soon as they can. So nuke them too. But Indy all depends on you, there are no best ways to deal with the nukes when your Indy.

Ha, I am a man. I launch an nuke at no-one and face the legion head on! Although, tactically, it would probably cost more NCR troops, but it feels cowardly and cost of innocent lives

Nuke everyone!

Its tactical. In war you have to use the best tactics, it may cost a few innocent lives, but its the best tactic, if your facing a major army that doesnt have nukes to counter attack you.

But it is not tactical if you damage valuable resources.. aka supply lines, tainted water, innocent lives and able bodies. In the end, does it do what it was intended?

Edit: and now you need more bodies to fight the mutated creatures you created

Kill all humans!... except Fry.

Will do the nuke next time and choose legion. This time I chose to abort missiles.

Doesnt matter, its still a tactical choice. Mutants (beside some smart super muties) cant organize a huge army and start gaining territory. If you want the Legion gone, you have to nuke them, you cant run across the river and kill everyone, no matter how much you want too, so nuke them...no better solution. After that you can deal with whatever Legion scumbags that camp in the Mojave.

I will just agree to disagree. I should reiterate.. it is a tatical decision. I just feel like it isn't the wisest decision

It isn't tactical if you are in the independent path. You kinda need the money (trade) from both factions to make your newly conquered land prosperous.

It depends entirely on your playthrough. A Legion supporter would definitely launch the missile at the Long 15. That's cutting off a major supply line of the NCR while creating a few dozen ghouls, its worth it and the same goes for an NCR supporter launching a missile at Dry Wells(which is a major Legion encampment and is in Arizona so the ghouls are the Legion's problem).

However, if the NCR did win, and it did become their problem, you still have radiation to cut through and it could damage the landscape forever. Plus you are damning a bunch of traders, granted other civilian causualities may be minimal since everybody is enveloped into the Legion. I guess I don't have the nerve to condem such a fate on others. I would be better as Follow of the A, even though I believe their belief of anarchy is folly.

No but it is the safest.
No you dont need the money from both factions. You get money from NCR and the Legion keep NCR at bay. Still i dont trust NCR and Legion have to pay for their crimes so i nuke them. Its simple. If i really want Vegas to be Indy i gotta cut the head of the guys that are preventing it, beside i aint destroying all of NCR or Legion so chances are they will reduce the number of mutants that appear in the aftermath.
My opinion is you are ignorant of the situation, who the hell cares if a little piece of land gets damaged, its not like it will [censored] things up for everyone. Legion get [censored], NCR gain from the Legion casulties. Tactics, you better learn something from them, and if you are supposed to survive a apocalypse its not that good to be too good hearted and deny killing bad people just cause some innocent might die, although i would want to avoid that.
And its a game. you seriously dont have the nerve to nuke a Legion Outpost in Arizona in a video game? thats just wierd.

Ha, R.J. I feel like you are out to get me today...

Anyways, I digress... I stated that if I had to make the call in REAL life, I am not sure I nuke anyone. Rather just be a human doctor cleaning up the mess afterwards. Which is why I made the statement personal rather than as in character, but whatever. And for the matter of fact... as far as a nuke is concerned, it is never a piece of land that gets damaged. Like Ulysses said, it would have deep consequences.

And a better outcome is if the said parties could agree to cooperate and move past in order to survive. It is War, lack of resources, tigger happy people, and more importantly the nukes that destroyed the world. Should establish resources they have to find the elusive never-ending resource or another viable positive outcome.

I nuke the NCR each time because the way of Caesar is the only way!
Vulpes has his radioactive bombs, Lanius has his decimation, Caesar has his Legion and I have my nukes
True to Caesar.

I am not out to get you, just i disagree with everything you say obviously But i understand why you wouldnt do it in real life, next time make it obvious your talking about real life. I wouldnt even go to the [censored] Divide in real life, hell i wouldnt even go to southern Vegas, for obvious reasons. Real life then everyone would probably be dead, cause casadores and deathclaws are [censored] overpowered.

Though they'd take only a few more bullets to kill than a human, unless you get them in the head, because no animal is that bulletproof.

Have you people not learned anything while walking the Lonesome Road through the Divide? (you people who want to nuke others). Haven't you seen what a delivery can do to a place, to a nation, to innocence? Didn't the Old World launch enough Nukes to last a lifetime? Why would you need to add to the suffering? Why take more innocent lives (even if those are Legion lives and I fight them where I can). Not even the Legion deserves to be nuked, in my opinion. I will fight them fair and square, not hide behind a horrible weapon.

I felt so bad when I played through LR the first time. I couldn't believe that I, the courier, was responsible for such devastation. Of course I talked Ulysses out of using the nukes and of course I canceled the launch, even if it meant to sacrifice my friend.

I'm doing an independent play-through right now, but I highly doubt I will nuke anyone, once I reach that point again.