The House Always Wins III is a House faction quest in Fallout: New Vegas.
Quick walkthrough[]
| Main Quest: The House Always Wins III | |||||||||||||
| Reach Nellis Air Force Base | |||||||||||||
| Kill the Boomers' leaders, Pearl and Loyal to neutralize the tribe. | Enlist the Boomers' aid by completing Volare!. | ||||||||||||
| Reward: The restored B-29 will appear during the Second Battle of Hoover Dam. | |||||||||||||
| Talk to Mr. House in the Lucky 38. | |||||||||||||
| Reward: Quest complete Don't Tread on the Bear!, Beware the Wrath of Caesar! permanently failed. | |||||||||||||
| Leads to: The House Always Wins IV | |||||||||||||
Detailed walkthrough[]
After starting up the Securitron army in the bunker, Mr. House tells of expanding the scope of his plans preparing for the upcoming Second Battle of Hoover Dam, starting with recruiting or neutralizing the tribe of xenophobic, trigger-happy, artillery-totting former Vault dwellers known as the Boomers, residing to the northeast of New Vegas at the pre-War Nellis Air Force Base.
Approaching Nellis from the road leads to an encounter with George, who will offer a 600-cap wager that the player character can make it to Nellis' gates without being blown apart by the Boomers' defensive artillery volley; he provides the Nellis artillery timing details note for additional information. The Boomers fire high-damaging explosive artillery in 14-round barrages, in-between which is a brief span of 10 seconds before they reload. This is when one must travel along the northwest side of the destroyed town outside the gates, stopping and sheltering in the nearest building once the volley restarts. An alternative route to bypass the artillery involves gaining access to the Very Hard-locked entrance of a train tunnel to the southeast from George's position.
Recruitment[]
Upon reaching the gate (the Boomers stop firing once one gets to the fence), the player character is stopped by the Boomer guard until Raquel arrives and escorts them to the barracks where Pearl, a senior member of the tribe welcomes them and requests their help opening the tribe up to the outside world by helping out around Nellis, triggering the overarching quest Volare! that helps guide one to various side quests and special interactions that can garner Boomers reputation up to becoming Idolized.
Once the maximum reputation is achieved, one must return to Pearl and help the Boomers one final time to fulfill their dream of raising the Crashed B-29 bomber from Lake Mead, allowing the tribe to restore it to functionality as an aerial assault craft. At this, one can then ask Pearl to convince the Boomers to aid them in the coming battle which she agrees to. Return to Mr. House afterward and complete the quest, triggering The House Always Wins IV.
(Note: If one was already Idolized by the Boomers but did not yet complete Volare! by raising the B-29 from Lake Mead, the non-violent path for the question cannot be completed as the speech options don't come up with Loyal or Pearl, and instead they just refer back to their quest. If one has already become Idolized, they need to go back to Pearl to ask for the Boomers' support, which they will be able to earn, then report back to Mr. House. Otherwise, they will have the option to tell House the Boomers have already pledged to support.)
Destruction[]
Instead of the multi-stage recruitment process, one can also fulfill Mr. House's request by neutralizing the Boomers' value as a war asset by killing them, specifically targeting the tribe's senior members Pearl and Loyal. Once one has gotten past the initial bombardment and Raquel has brought them straight to Mother Pearl, after the dialogue has ended, one can kill Mother Pearl immediately. Killing her even when undetected will still turn every Boomer hostile and fail Volare!
Along with Pearl, Loyal must also die. He is typically located at the Nellis hangars, slightly north from Pearl's barracks, or he may be in his house (the left-side quanset hut facing northwest from the hangars).
With both Pearl and Loyal dead (it is not necessary to kill any other Boomers though their being hostile might lead to that), return to Mr. House and report the results to complete the quest.
Quest stages[]
Part III
