With Our Powers Combined is an optional Minutemen quest in Fallout 4. It occurs after the ending if one finishes The Nuclear Option and Old Guns and has or gained hostile status with the Brotherhood of Steel.
Quick walkthrough[]
| Minutemen main quest: With Our Powers Combined | |||||
| Build artillery pieces in 5 settlements. | |||||
| Visit the Minutemen radio operator in the Castle. Order the strike. | |||||
| Report to Ronnie Shaw or Preston Garvey. | |||||
| Reward: 350+ XP | |||||
| Leads to: Defend the Castle | |||||
Detailed walkthrough[]
Build artillery defenses after speaking with Preston. Build an artillery piece and later assign a settler to man it in five different settlements the Sole Survivor owns. Once that is done, visit the Minutemen radio operator in the Castle and ask him to give the strike order. Prepare for the attack and defeat the enemy. Watch from the Castle, as the Prydwen is destroyed, and then prepare to fight the Vertibirds that the Brotherhood send.
Quest stages[]
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Notes[]
- Even if the player character has finished the main questline by siding with the Brotherhood of Steel, this quest will still be available.
- Defeating the Brotherhood this way prevents the player from acquiring unique items, such as Final Judgment or Maxson's battlecoat, because none of the named Brotherhood soldiers show up for this last battle. However, the coat can still be gained by killing Maxson before the artillery strike.
- Completing this quest will unlock the ability to use captured Brotherhood Vertibirds with flares found in the Castle armory. About two days after completing this quest, Preston Garvey will inform the player of the captured Vertibirds, any Vertibird Signal Grenades one already has will call the now-Minuteman flown Vertibird.
- If one completed Rockets' Red Glare for the Railroad and then gets Banished from the Institute, this quest will be skipped after completing the Nuclear Option. Preston will be seemingly troubled at the destruction of the Prydwen. He can be reassured that the Brotherhood was a threat.
- If completing this quest after finishing the main quest line with the Brotherhood of Steel, Liberty Prime will survive the Prydwen's destruction and keep patrolling the Boston Airport, although remaining unkillable.
- According to Radio Freedom, the operation to destroy the Prydwen is officially referred to as "Operation: Deliberate Phoenix."
Behind the scenes[]
This quest's name is a reference to the children's TV show Captain Planet and the Planeteers, where the quotes "by our powers combined" and "let our powers combine" are spoken.
Bugs[]
The quest may halt at 90.0%.[verified]
- This can be resolved by finding the last Vertibird around the Boston Airport and destroying it, triggering 100% completion. May also be fixed by reloading a previous save or by running away from the Castle and/or fast traveling to another location.
- The quest may also stall when you need to speak with Ronnie Shaw. Every time you try to speak with her she will ask if you want to trade.[verified]
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