The easy way and the hard way.

I finished another play through today.

The Brotherhood of Steel turend out to be very unobservant since even with my meeger sneak skill I was able to take all 3 secrity cards and make another mad dash before the place blew up.

I then had to do the mission again where I save the president, that's where things got complicated. I took out the first 2 assasins no problem, but as I ran to take the bomb off the president's helicopter some guard though I was getting to close and all of a sudden the whole NCR opens fire on me. To make matter worse I had just triggered an auto-save so now I can't go back to before I was being attacked, and my last manual save was back before stealing the last securty card from the Brotherhood.

So I reload back to the brotherhood and decide do do things differently. While taking the key-card I placed a live frag mine in the leader's pants (took a few tried), killing him instantly and I took his handy shock glove (much like Caesar's) and proceeded to kill his two guards with it. I then gradually made my way through the whole camp picking people off one by one with the glove.

After that diversion I blew up the base any ways and then finished the president mission without incident.

After that was the final push mission, where I had to save the dam from an attack of Caesar's Legion. In the end the epilogue told how the NCR gradually took control of the whole area (for better or worse) and my character wandered off to find new places.

Tomorrow it's on to the odd and unpleasant play through where I side with Caesar and max out my luck stat for gambling, both things I would not normally do.