This location has excellent vantage points but very little space, and all of the vantage points are behind the space (and thus you'll end up with structures between the turrets and the edge of the zone) which, even if they're not blocking - turrets have a maximum range. By building turrets and guard posts in these locations you'll cover any attack regardless of building walls.Īs another example, at Red Rocket Gas Station, the enemies will approach from Concord, from over the hill behind the station and from over the hill across the road, or up the hill from the west of Concord.

If you go to the settlement and help them defend you'll see that each settlement only has a few set approaches that enemies will take.įor example, Sanctuary will get enemies approach over the south bridge, over the north bridge, and across the river at the low point adjacent to the south bridge. When a settlement is attacked, you'll receive a notification regardless of where you are and what you're doing. There's no point in having a nice array of super turrets that go offline immediately because the attackers were able to take out your unprotected generators. The main deal with turrets is that heavy laser turrets are great but require power, heavy machinegun turrets are average but don't. Higher level turrets will do more damage, but be aware of the area of effect damage from the missile turrets, because they will kill you and your settlers. Building a guard post with a siren next to it will mean that the rest of your settlement are aware of the attack sooner and coordinate their efforts better.īuilding turrets that have a good vantage point of these approaches will ensure that enemies start taking fire as soon as possible.

The taller of the two guard posts are sufficiently tall to see over walls but you'll need to remember to assign settlers to actually use the guard posts. The best defence is intelligence (not the S.P.E.C.I.A.L stat) and planning.ĭon't build a settlement that fills an area larger than it needs to be, and build a wall around it with a few set entrances and turrets with good vantage points.

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