Scavvers get metal armour miners helmets for seeing in to all the crevasses to find the cool stuff. I farm 'The Forged' for flamers and give them to my farmers along with leather armour hard hats and Molotovs. the tall sentry post are placed near the entrance to settlements and spawn points with automated heavy machine turrets. I have given front line guards spike armour army helmets and miniguns and 5 rounds of 5mm. The one of a given ammo type applies to companions and settlers. If they can find enough of you to give you one. I would assume that giving a Companion a grenade is a sure way to die horribly with the word 'multiple' carved on your coffin.

but if I make it Pocketed, will Nick be able to carry more? If he has a knife in his inventory, will he switch to it for that foe and then revert to pistol or is he likely to ignore the knife? If he does switch to the knife, will it 'stick' and lead him to charge the more distant foes?Īs for armour, do the Companion Costumes (Fedora/Trenchcoat for Nick) have any armour value? Should I pimp him out in suitable crafted armour? I assume that Companions follow the same rules for noise that the player is subject to - light is quiet etc. 45 and a fistful of ammo which he is happily using but I notice that in melee with, say, Ferals, he resorts to pistol-whipping them. 45 so I assumed he was Perked for non-auto pistols (not that there is any way of telling).

I have already understood that by default, Companions have a generi-weapon with infinite Companion Ammo and that if you ask them to use a looted or crafted one you have to provide the ammo but what about melee weapons or armour?

Fallout 4 .45 pistol