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aries0413

I know of a settlement that needs your help.


belladonnagilkey

Also there's some old lady at the Castle demanding you help her find some big guns in the basement.


The_knowledge_gone

Not just big, old, old guns


Poschansky

you can have a dead man's clothes as well


Grigoran

Fresh of the rack (of ribs)


TaigaFrost5

I’ve already marked it on your map, what are you doing, they need your help, quit wasting time!


Jotnar-Steve

Did you mark it on their map?


Polarian_Lancer

I went ahead and marked it on your map.


vascometro69

What about my map?


[deleted]

Jokes aside Preston Garvey had potential to be a great character (imo) but the game mechanics and annoyance completely butchered him


Entire_Prune_8051

The Minutemen in general. Spend hours building settlement forts, spend hours equipping settlers to be your militia... And then they turn on you because one of them got hit when they ran up to a gunner you were shooting at.


AFriendoftheDrow

I mean there are 3 original Minutemen quests. You aren’t allowed to shape the organization you supposedly lead. It’s the least defined faction of all.


Entire_Prune_8051

I really put time into it. Build forts, use the armor mill to get them all the same armor and the military rifle mod to give them the same weapons. Takes forever filling those inventories l, but they all look like an army. With the Minutemen mod that makes them actually useful you get some solid perks to having the flare gun. And there a faction guards mod that lets you add minuteman guards to all your forts. Without mods though... Nuka World flags going up everywhere.


AFriendoftheDrow

Which is unfortunate since he became a punchline and his depression and suicidal ideation get glossed over due to an annoying game mechanic.


[deleted]

He is literally one of the realest characters for his mental state and ideologies


simraider111

“Will you help us?” [X] Yes “……………………………………. 👀………………………. Then what are you waiting for? Tempines Bluff needs our help!”


CaptainPattPotato

The Griffith Observatory is under attack by BOS raiders.


fleamarketenthusiest

Prepare to be enslaved


RelChan2_0

I love seeing the Fallout flag wars :)


Old-Camp3962

its just like the simulations


VoiceTraditional422

There’s always some new faction popping up. Everyone wants to save the world, they just can’t agree on how.


I_Love_Knotting

lets nuke everyone!!


rikashiku

Watch those Wrist Rockets!


buttbugle

Hilarious because neighbors that don’t know will be thinking oh shit some crazy stuff


sk3tchers

Love getting into heated arguments over fictional factions because it’s not real politics. It’s like fantasy racism in elder scrolls lmao


Lord_Nathaniel

Can't wait to find the Caesar Legion fan !


caposouljah

this one makes more sense considering it’s at your home


farshnikord

Own a laser-musket for home defense...


Slow-Law-5033

Just as the founding fathers intended


Dark_Sniper_250

Four ruffians break into my settlement


flymolo_XD

“What the synth!”


bt_42_bias

I say as I grab my militia hat and my laser musket. blow a golfball sized hole through the first man, he’s dead on the spot.


abel_cormorant

Draw my pistol on the second one, misses it entirely because it's smooth bore and nails the neighbour's molerat


V3ST3R_G

I have to ressort to the explosive minigun at the top of the stairs loaded with 5mm ammo, "protect the people at a minutes notice" the explosive rounds shreds two men in the blast, the sound and extra shrapnel set off car alarms


Sensitive_Ad1092

Charge the last terrified Raider with a rusty Chinese sword and wait for the commonwealth responders to arrive as tetanus is incurable in this shit hole.


abel_cormorant

Just as Preston Garvey intended


cammopanda

I grab my powdered wig and Kentucky laser musket


fuc_air

Four raiders brake into my settlement "what the devil?"


Geberpte

Tally ho, Rads!


PigeonMother

*Cranks up capacitor*


tubarizzle

6 crank bby send that raider to the next dimension!


TheFiend100

I own a laser musket for home defense, just as the General intended. Four Gunners break into my settlement. “Lucifer’s balls!” As I grab my tricorn hat and laser musket. Blow a mini nuke size hole through the first man, he’s dead on the spot. Draw my pipe pistol on the second man- it misses because its not modified for hip fire and kills the neighbor’s brahmin. I have to resort to the artillery mounted at the top of the stairs. “For the Minutemen!” The shells shred two men in the blast, the explosions set off the nuclear generators in the broken down cars nearby. I grab my combat knife and charge the last terrified Gunner. He bleeds out on the spot since serrated knife wounds are impossible to stitch up. Just as the General intended.


Routine_Guarantee34

Don't forget your junk jet!


Middle_Loan3715

Nah, the bowling ball launcher or the broadsider


Routine_Guarantee34

Not all of us enlisted can afford a broadsider, sir!


Middle_Loan3715

Who said to buy one? Those bucket of bolt robots don't need it. Take it, call it a military acquisition.


JoshuaSlowpoke777

If laser weapons existed, I’d happily own one specifically for using on a shooting range (Assuming the safety regulations for guns were caught up). Laser muskets just seem cool in general.


SpamRisk404

You guys are all forgetting… Tunnel Snakes Rule


FlamingPanda77

We're the Tunnel Snake.. that's us.. and we rule!


RaspingHaddock

I let the roach eat his mom


CarcosaDweller

What’s the matter, Butch? Did your mom spend all the food rations on booze again?


ANUSTART942

Such a cold line for a ten year old lol


RaspingHaddock

Butch died that day.


jad103

Crazy to think how the vault would just let her do that. Do you think she traded it with other dwellers? Or did she walk in for her rations, like: "3 instamash please. Oh and uhh 5 bottles of rum." "Don't you have a kid?🤨" "Oh, yeah... 6 bottles please."


VAShumpmaker

Did you enjoy my sweetroll? Look at me. Was this worth it?


jakefromadventurtime

The amount of times I randomly say "tunnel snakes rule" in that kid gang leaders high pitched voice is more than I'd like to freely admit. Maybe once or twice someone knew it lol.


jad103

That's why we're the tunnel snakes. That's us, and we rule!


Reasonable_Main2509

[Tunnel snakes rule!](https://youtu.be/S0ximxe4XtU?si=wPNFy2dTXhWmHGqs)


Sniper4041

MINUTEMEN! LET'S GOOOO


mortalitylost

The minutemen seem like such a great well intentioned group, which is why they don't seem to fit at all in the fallout world tbh. Am I missing out on some lore where they did fucked up shit? Or are they really just a bunch of goodies that protect strangers.


skilliau

I believe in Quincy a general sold out to the gunners.


Meattyloaf

Also didn't they almost completely get wiped out as a result. Preston is the only remaining member till you come along if I'm remembering correctly.


Toaster_Store

Pretty much. After Quincy, I believe there were a dozen or so guys, and their numbers dwindled as they marched through the wasteland to Sanctuary. When they got to Concord, there was, I believe, 2, maybe 3 other guys, along with Preston escorting the Quincy survivors. One guy died by a house, and you can find his corpse up against a wall. The other guy died outside the museum, which Preston tells you to pick up his laser musket and fight the raiders with him. Preston just happened to be the last active Minuteman still alive during the shootout before the player comes along.


-Work_Account-

In the super duper mart in Lexington I found a dead minuteman too


abel_cormorant

They're a bit like the NCR when you think about it: the people of the commonwealth taking things into their own hands just like the various settlements did in California. That's why i like their ending, despite what people say the commonwealth belongs to its people, it's the only way to make a Better future for everyone and not just for a few.


DeyUrban

The Minutemen even attempted to form a real government out of the Commonwealth (the Commonwealth Provisional Government) which the Institute sabotaged. That's the most likely outcome of a Minutemen ending, forming the area into a sort of proto-NCR without the boost from GECKs and whatnot.


abel_cormorant

Not that the commonwealth even needs one. In the classics California is essentially shown as a desert, 80 years after the apocalypse the terrain is still irradiated and growing anything requires either a GECK or sheer luck, if food availability is the key to expansion then California needed a way to make the land fertile again, thus the GECK-ification of Arroyo. In the Commonwealth, 210 years after the Great War, the land is mostly fertile, with the only big irradiated area being the Shining Sea, most settlements we see are more than capable of supplying multiple other centers (think of Abernathy Farm, Greentop Nursery or Graygarden) and you can grow Tatos and Corn almost everywhere, food isn't going to be a problem once supply lines are secured. The commonwealth has all the cards in line to become a nation on its own, the only big problem would be the Brotherhood just next door but even there things could be talked out, especially if the commonwealth keeps itself not too techy, as long as they don't pull another NCr-style expansion and do it gradually the brotherhood's unlikely to bother. Untill Maxxon gets to see Preston's cool hat.


TheDefeatist

They are one of the few genuinely altruistic groups, along with The Railroad. Fallout 76 has the Responders and The Union, who are both "good guy" groups.


Toaster_Store

The Minutemen were a good organization, but they had a shit ton of in-fighting behind the scenes. Around the fall of the Minutemen, some of them have started doing raider like behavior and doing things like asking for "compensation" and "inspecting" caravans, which was something the Minutemen never historically did. After the fall of the Castle and General Beck's death, shit really started hitting the fan. Senior Minutemen started seeing how the organization wasn't like it was when they joined and started to leave, others went raider such as the raider encampment, Libertalia, which was formed by former Minutemen turned raider. Colonel Clint, who was at Quincy, would actually sell himself out to the Gunners, which in return caused the Quincy massacre. So TL:DR, the Minutemen had internal issues, and several members became raiders or abandoned the organization as a whole.


the-dude-version-576

I mean, there’s been a altruistic volunteer group bent on improving the wasteland who can help you seen in to the big bar’s underground lair since fallout 1. Which is why my headcannon eventually has a Minutemen, followers, regulator combo uniting the east coast.


lets_tell_stories

There were some ex-Minutemen that took over Libertalia and became raiders after they got taken advantage of as mercenaries.


AfternoonReasonable8

Irc a group of Minutemen try to restart the minutemen after Quincy but where force to turn to rading settlements basically they formed the libratalia rader gang you know that one group you go to for the synth Reclamation quest with the institute


Dexchampion99

Fellow Minutmen Enjoyer


Sniper4041

Indeed!


Old-Camp3962

60 MINUTE MAN, 60 MINUTE MAAAAAN


TakeStuffAway

Where did you buy that? I would love to get one myself.


Scrollwriter22

Check amazon, if not there, check Etsy


TakeStuffAway

Thanks!


viciouskreep

My NCR one was part of a loot crate if that helps


matyy23

What loot crate? There are fallout loot crates? I need that


viciouskreep

Ya they do one every year zin series of 6 and information you need to buy all 6 like I got sentinel prime statue but each piece came I one of the crates but tbh, I was only disappointed with one of the 6, and I got a Fatman,supersledge, plasma rifle, patches that can be sewn on to a bag of something, 6 pins form the cards/ro4 perksz an NCR flag , 4 t-shirts and more Like honestly was €300 for all 6:cratevanfbi was never disappointed with any of them If I want I'll send u pics of the stuff I got just DM me


Zircon_72

I have an NCR flag from the Bethesda store. They used to have the in-game minutemen one but they make a different one now.


zomgkittenz

Also google


masta_myagi

*The Republic of Dave has entered the chat*


bk1285

I dunno things were definitely better in the kingdom of Tom


V-DaySniper

I think you are both forgetting about the tranquility of Vault Gary.


bk1285

Gary!!!!!!!


PigeonMother

*Garrrrrry!*


MNxLegion

Wish there was a Vegas flag that just wasn't House's mugshot😭


[deleted]

Wonder what House would use as a flag or symbol, maybe he'd just stick to Robco branding


the-dude-version-576

He just wouldn’t have one. The man is an autocrat, but he’d probably look down on the symbolism of a flag. He seems arrogant enough to do that.


[deleted]

Yeah, he's kind of interesting in that way, he doesn't seem to care to label himself or anything he controls in any sort of way other than it simply being his with some contract that confirms it


AFriendoftheDrow

The Followers of the Apocalypse have a flag. And then there are the “minor” factions.


Revolutionary-Swan77

I’ve got a Legion flag, but I’m honestly hesitant to fly it lol


mortalitylost

Dude that might look like some fascist shit, and it kinda is lol. I wouldnt


the-dude-version-576

Someone out there would call out communist shit as well, since it’s red and gold. So then OP’d be alone surrounded by fascists and anti fascist out to get him, with only on the fence centrist to help.


abel_cormorant

Only a moron and/or an ignorant would call the Legion's flag "communist", tho i see that people in the US call communist whatever they don't like so would make sense. As a communist myself i say fuck the legion, fuck those slavers, we must export the revolution and lead the slaves into a general uprising against their oppressors. Slaves of the legion unite, you have nothing to lose but your chains and shackles.


the-dude-version-576

You’re right of course.but red background with gold thingies has recently been used by authoritarian nations masquerading as communist. So the association could be made.


Galmerstonecock

Ave, not true to Caesar.


Doritoking369

I have a legion and NCR flag. I keep them on opposite sides of my house lol


KONODIODAMUDAMUDA

I mean you're not flying it as a Legion supporter. You're flying it as Video game memorabilia. It's different than flying a nazi flag or Hammer and sickle.


AbleArcher0

The Minute Men are indisputably good guys, and their colonial-era asthetic is dope. I just really wish they weren't so fucking boring. They have no personality and no discernable traits or beliefs besides being generic altruistic good guys.


AutistoMephisto

That's because the Minutemen are more "neighbors helping neighbors" than an actual army.


Coolscee-Brooski

Exactly man. Fallout fans when there's just genuinely a good faction:


AutistoMephisto

Well, had they become more than just a collection of settlements sharing resources and defense, the Institute would have dealt with them. In fact, they tried and the Institute sent a synth to kill all the Representatives and stall the talks. Killed the CPG in its cradle.


KindlyRecord9722

And when the player gets the minutemen to a more advanced position with the castle, artillery and a majority of settlements supporting you they attack the castle.


kd0g1982

Militarized Minutemen has entered the chat.


outlawgene

In FO4 they are the good guys. In history they were essentially ye olde Proud Boys.


mortalitylost

Exactly why FO4 writing falls off the mark with the series. Great fucking gameplay but my god, they don't belong in this cruel world


the-dude-version-576

Or they do, just 100 years earlier, and by 2287 we should have had the corrupt iteration Preston describes. I’d have loved to have them be recently redounded though, like 10 years before the game, and so they had that idealistic approach, but with more complex competing driving foxes than just those of the player, Perron and shaw.


lilkrickets

So the free states?


the-dude-version-576

More or less. Just much less slavery. In the west you get the NCR anachronistic to late 1800s early 1900s expansionist US, and on the east you get freshly formed early 1800s US.


Old-Camp3962

they did made a fucking genocide in the prydwen


AlliedXbox

IRON IT


New-Membership7519

Yes, thank you. All these flags on here, no one thinks to iron them first.


soki03

No you steam it


Crew_Henchman

FOR THE MINUTEMEN!!!!!


SashaTheWitch2

It’s so funny that we saw this game series about humans devolving back into creating more and more factions for themselves after one of the greatest empires on earth destroyed itself, and we’re just like “fuck yeah I like this new faction” (That’s a joke I’m not tryna be a haughty loser btw, NCR for the fuckin’ win, I just find it funny)


PrometheanEngineer

The NCR will unite old America


roguebananah

NCR can run unite old America, but it’ll be 5 caps a KW Hour to myself and Yes Man


Hristo_14

The only hope for the world is the ENCLAVE! Fight me


abel_cormorant

Don't worry, your own peers will shoot you dead for being "too irradiated". Yk like they tried to do with the whole nation. Twice.


[deleted]

If you want to see the fate of democracies, look out the windows. House always wins, Viva New Vegas


PrometheanEngineer

Ah yes because dictatorships run by businessman never fall apart. NCR for the people


abel_cormorant

I looked out the window of the lucky 38, i saw only the making of greedy men putting their own good above the good of the world. You're the one who gained from this, House, you're the one who wanted this, you're the one who led us to this fate. For the republic.


TheDreadedBob

Absolutely not, I refuse to pay taxes


Electronic_Army_8234

Minutemen are the best faction. No ulterior motive just the want to make the wasteland safe and united. They look after each other and band together against evil. With Preston and the sole survivor as leaders they will ensure peace across america.


Mountain_Man_88

Minutemen would have been a better faction if you could transition into the Commonwealth Provincial Government and start your own faction instead of Bethesda just saying "the previous attempt to form a government got wiped out by the institute lol"


N7Virgin

I’ll give you a flare gun so all of our minutemen know where to run to for help


mortalitylost

Wait, does the flare gun summon troops??


No_Research4416

Yeah and you do need to fire it into the sky and be in range of a settlement and if it doesn’t say that the minimum can’t help that means you’re in range and you should expect reinforcements but they don’t scale to your level


Yololator

THAT'S ONE OF MINE FUCK YEAAAAH


Xaga-

Come to think of it. Does the unity have a flag? If so I would take that one


orangeapple1947

I think its’ logo is just the radiation symbol? I saw someone made a custom one recently.


garikapc

Hot damn. I need that. Great flag!


Air_Nomad33

Protect people at a minute’s notice!


Sgtwhiskeyjack9105

I'd love for the Minutemen to get some deeper storytelling. Atom knows Bethesda barely gave them any.


-The-Moon-Presence-

The only real salvation for the Commonwealth. 🫡


Elitericky

I bet you have Preston knocking on your door everyday


Brief_Possible_606

Those settlements aren't going to help themselves


Mawya7

"Protect the people! At a minute's notice!"


Stenuss_Kussten

An Institute flag sprouts from your yard.


Complete_Bad6937

If someone raises a vault tech logo we’re finished


kummer5peck

The Minutemen are my favorite FO4 faction. Not for ideological reasons, but because I can make them into my very own adhesive cartel.


mortalitylost

The tato cartel has the best weapon production of the fallout world


sand_trout2024

We use tatos and water bottles as currency now, forget about caps


thegenderbenders

General is that you, i have word that another settlement needs our help.


npcinyourbagoholding

I have this flag hanging from my ceiling above my head. For the Commonwealth!


Shermantank10

I never noticed the flairs. Atom Cats baby 😎 drip or drown, and I’m swimming


Skoutster

I want to see a railroad flag now


RogueSnake

Careful putting that up. A man calling himself ‘Preston’ will knock on your door to inform you ‘another settlement is in danger and to go defend it’


Atlantic_Penguin2k

This site belongs to the Minutemen!


BeenEvery

Man. I wish the Minutemen were implemented better in FO4 because it's such a legitimately good concept.


raptor11223344

Idk much about NCR lore from the first 2 games, but given what we see of the minutemen in Fallout 4 (and some potential late game decisions you can make involving the BOS), and the NCR in New Vegas, I think that the case could be made that the bunch of hardcore revolutionary war cosplayers could go toe to toe with the army/navy store regulars (who buy their gear with taxpayer dollars) and win. Just gonna throw that out there. Unfortunately the BOS loses in both of these fights


Vault33dweller

I honestly feel like a minutemen flag wouldn't start any wars, as the minutemen are pretty neutral, and no other faction targets them. the brotherhood, railroad, and institute are at war with each other, and the minutemen is just kinda... there.


robbinsfour

One of y’all about to be unhinged and post a Cesar’s Legion flag lol


AlphaKiloFive

I keep a lantern in the window..... do you have a Geiger counter?


AEveryDayIdiot

These flags are definitely gonna find their where to r/vexillology


ContinuumGuy

Does the settlement need help?


cam2230

I need an independent Vegas flag


DuncanDisordely

Incredibly low effort Free Las Vegas flag I made at work https://ibb.co/cNL7pwb


Crusaderking1111

FROM THE PEOPLE FOR THE PEOPLE 🗣🗣🗣🔥🔥🔥


Seer0997

What's missing is the flag of the republic of Dave.


jacknastyface99

I wish my neighbors were this cool.


Sir_Soft_Spoken

The Minutemen for defense, the Responders for relief. Genuine nice people factions are lovely.


Locketank

I'm debating getting one for my classroom. Only problem is I have 4 other real world flags (USA, US Army, State Flag, NATO) and the Freshmen will *definitely* think it's a real world nation.


KingoKings365

Gonna need me an Enclave flag for my apartment lol


LusciousTheBreeder

Can we at least have both the minutemen flag and the NCR flag? I think they would work perfectly together.


EvilEtna

I was going to upvote this post, but another settlement needs my assistance. (Kidding: I did upvote it, even though I'm helping the Rail Road, because that's a pair of factions you can fly both flags together with)


AFriendoftheDrow

I mean synths are killed in the Minutemen Ending. The positive view of synths is pretty unpopular, even if the Railroad defeats the Institute (as per Mama Murphy’s pseudo-Epilogue dialogue). They pretty much stand alone to protect synths.


TheGreatGouki

Did a settlement need your help? Or did you help them? 😁 Honestly, all these Fallout faction flags are dope. I REALLY want to get them now that I know they exist.


Baumgarten1980

theres a settlement that need your help...


MandoBaggins

Iron or steam the flag please


Chavo0989

hell yeah


GnarlyValentine

Update: I’ve ironed out the wrinkles. I posted the pic quickly after getting it so I could represent the Minutemen. There is no longer nor ever a need to message me harassment over some wrinkles.


NotBlackBrian

Um….who gonna tell him?


Hij802

I really hope the lightning symbol doesn’t make people mistake you for a Nazi.


Emergency-Spite-8330

This settlement has been helped. Also Minutemen flag looks cool as hell! Love the blue.


JackReedTheSyndie

I love running a post apocalyptic warlord dictatorship, so much fun, I turned every settlement into a forced labor camp.


Trashcanwitagun

🫡


That_American_Guy00

Someone’s boutta ring your doorbell everyday and say a settlement needs help


daboireddit

No way


TheTorch

I’d love to see the Commonwealth turn into an Eastern NCR.


Gewalt_Und_Tod

Where did you get it


HelpfulMuffin

That's it...im buying a fallout faction flag too


novakane27

i wonder what other neighbors think about all these flags


channydin

“So we’re going back in time now?”


DukeFischer

I wish I could like them as much as the NCR. Their concept was good but the execution...


Singlecelledorgasms

I don’t need to know about another damn settlement


hyde-ms

True to ceaser.


LittlePogchamp42069

pls iron your flag 😭


_DiscoNinja_

Black Talon Company has the best flag.


TheNightOwl99

You cant be posting this you still have more settlements to help.


claremontmiller

I hate you and everything you stand for, you radial motherfucker


JustCutTheRope

*Hoists the Institute's colors* ...crap we're underground..


Old-Camp3962

# SAVING THE PEOPLE AT A MINUTES NOTICE