I'll admit now that I've never gotten through fallout new vegas- I always try it on hardcore mode (also completely neutral: killed House and took his place), but get my ass kicked by Legate Lanius.

Usually my issue is lack of supplies. I'm taking care of that at the moment (mountains upon mountains of ammo, explosives, stimpacks, and doctors bags), but he's extremely powerful himself.

I wear Brotherhood T-51b power armor w/ helmet, my primary weapon is a ballistic fist, and my secondary weapons are Maria, a service rifle, a tri-beam laser rifle, and Euclid's-motherfucking-C-finder.

I'm level 22, with 6 strength, 6 perception, 8 endurance, 3 charisma, 8 intelligence, 8 agility, and 3 luck.
Relevant skills:
Energy Weapons: 40
Explosives: 40
Guns: 50
Medicine: 50
Sneak: 50
Unarmed: 100

Relevant perks:
Beautiful Beatdown (reduced unarmed AP cost)
Cannibal: duh
Khan Trick: unarmed attack to temporarily stun an enemy with POCKET SAND
Lord Death: damage bonus vs everything
Nerd Rage!: strength raised to 10, +15 damage threshold at 20% health
Piercing Strike: Unarmed and melee attacks ignore 15 points of damage threshold
Power Armor Training: duh
Scribe Counter: Unarmed counterattack after a block
Trigger Discipline: 20% slower RoF, 20% higher accuracy with guns and energy weapons


So: what are my chances at beating the monster of the east?
Any advice?

100% speach

or

100% poison.

My speech skill is like, 15.
Poison isn't an option either: while I could make just about any poison, I don't have the melee skill to effectively poison him.

Current plan is to set up all my explosives in a mound, hit him with the orbital laser, then finish him off with some good old-fashion fisticuffs. Hopefully Veronica will still be alive for that fight (in which case she'll help enormously- her DPS is almost as high as mine), but I'm betting she'll die on the dam.
The boomers have a tendency to kill more friendlies than enemies with their bombing run.

My speech skill is like, 15.
Poison isn't an option either: while I could make just about any poison, I don't have the melee skill to effectively poison him.

Current plan is to set up all my explosives in a mound, hit him with the orbital laser, then finish him off with some good old-fashion fisticuffs. Hopefully Veronica will still be alive for that fight (in which case she'll help enormously- her DPS is almost as high as mine), but I'm betting she'll die on the dam.
The boomers have a tendency to kill more friendlies than enemies with their bombing run.

I used the spears that the Legion used to deliver the poison, it's been a while since I played. Since he is super agressive an armored up, power fisted Veronica would be good along with Adamance's roid/psycho chemical induced vats run is your best advice. the timing of the orbital could work, but your proximity is danger close.

good luck!

the super mutant maybe a good partner to use as a screen since he is so quick. I went mono with him, but the game sent caveman johnson in with me, but i don't remember him being of much help.

I think Veronica is by best bet as a follower.

After I finished "I could make you care", Veronica got a damage boost on top of her already great DPS

get her a new dress after you stomp him, she is my favorite FO character.

Well, here I go.

Trying to save stimpacks by eating every corpse I see

numm numm numm nummm

pass the ketchup

Well, here I go.

Trying to save stimpacks by eating every corpse I see

Turn down your difficulty level

Proof that this ************ can survive a mini nuke: https://youtu.be/etMb7kWht8s