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National Guard Depot

Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition guide · Retrieving military supplies

The National Guard Depot is a dangerous interior military base packed with hostile automated security robots and turrets. Players navigate through the Depot Offices, Training Wing, and Armory to access the secured Armory bunker. Reaching the innermost cache rewards players with vast amounts of ammunition, weapons, and powerful end-game gear.

Items

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Experimental MIRV: Inside the National Guard Armory bunker behind the secure blast door, resting on a central tableSmall Guns Bobblehead: Sitting on a metal shelf inside the National Guard Armory bunker roomKeller Family Transcript 5: In the Depot Offices, resting on a desk near a terminal inside an office room

Secrets

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The secure blast door to the Armory bunker requires collecting all five Keller Family Transcripts from across the Capital Wasteland to enter the code, which contains the Experimental MIRV and massive supply caches.

Enemies

Sentry Bot

Weak to Combat Inhibitor

Heavily armed robot equipped with a minigun and missile launcher; destroying the combat inhibitor causes it to frenzy.

Mister Gutsy

Weak to Combat Inhibitor

Militarized robot equipped with a flamer and plasma gun that patrols corridors.

Protectron

Weak to Combat InhibitorSteal / drop Scrap Metal

Slow-moving automated security robot firing laser beams from its head.

Automated Turret

Ceiling-mounted defensive turrets usually controlled by nearby wall terminals.

Tips

Pulse Grenades and Pulse Mines are extremely effective here due to the high concentration of high-tier robotic enemies.
You must loop through the Training Wing and Depot Offices to hit an electrical switch that unlocks the main Armory door on the ground floor.
Hacking terminals throughout the facility allows you to shut down or reprogram turrets to fire upon the patrolling security bots.

Not listed for this area: shops and people.

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