Legionary Assassin



Legionary assassins are high-end assassins living in the Mojave Wasteland in 2281. They work for Caesar's Legion.

Background
Legionary assassins are small groups of four elite killers for Caesar, usually led by a Decanus, a Praetorian guard or a Centurion, dispatched to eliminate the Legion's enemies.

First type of group is composed of:
 * 1x decanus (leader)
 * 2x veteran legionaries
 * 1x vexillarius

The second type of group is for eliminating Caesar's greater enemies, composed of:
 * 1x Centurion (leader)
 * 1x prime decanus
 * 1x veteran legionary
 * 1x vexillarius

The last type of group is for Caesar's greatest, most hated enemies, composed of:
 * 1x praetorian guard (leader)
 * 1x veteran decanus
 * 1x veteran legionary
 * 1x vexillarius

During these assassination missions, Praetorian Guards are allowed to use firearms in the place of their unarmed weapons.

Characteristics
Legionary assassins begin to appear if the player obtains a Shunned or worse status with Caesar's Legion. They will travel across the wasteland from their original spawn point towards the player's current location, not stopping until they finally encounter the player. As a result, they can end up attacking the player almost anywhere in the wasteland. Assassins may also attack other non-player characters they pass near while searching for the player, such as NCR settlements or traveling merchants (as with all non-player character vs non-player character combat, this only occurs if the player is currently in the same active map cell as the non-player characters).

Legionary assassins typically attack in 4-man groups; a Recruit-Prime-Veteran-Decanus, a Legion vexillarius, one Veteran legionary and after: Legionary assassins may also appear after aiding the Legion's enemies, namely the NCR, by successfully completing the quests Three-Card Bounty, I Put a Spell on You, I Don't Hurt Anymore, or any other quest that improves the reputation of the player with the NCR.
 * a veteran legionary
 * a centurion
 * a Praetorian Guard

They will have weapons and armor depending on your standing with Caesar's Legion and your level. They can range from simple 9mm pistols, caravan shotguns and machetes to 12.7mm pistols and sub-machine guns, assault and Marksman carbines, brush guns, thermic lances and super sledges.

As of patch 1.4.0.525, Legionary assassins level with the player, up to level 45. At higher levels this gives them very high health on par with a non-player character companion. Additionally, the Praetorian and Veteran assassin may be equipped with Legion centurion armor instead, making them all the more difficult to kill.

Spawn points

 * Directly North of the Fast-travel point At the Nipton road Pit Stop, behind a rock.
 * At the Ivanpah underpass near Mojave Outpost. (up top and near the middle so they can attack from either approach.)
 * On the highway directly behind Wolfhorn Ranch. (This can make sleeping at Wolfhorn difficult unless you remember that you will be in a fight each morning.)
 * Across the tracks from Ranger station Charlie.
 * On the highway between Novac and El Dorado gas & service (about the time you pass Southern Nevada Wind Farm).
 * From behind El Dorado gas & service
 * From Between REPCONN headquarters and the NCR Ranger safehouse
 * From the western end of the bridge between Cassidy Caravans wreckage and the Grub n' Gulp rest stop, (Will attack in either direction).
 * Just south of Fields' Shack, across the tracks are some squatters around a burning barrel. Spawn is south of them, east of the New Vegas medical clinic.
 * Go to Griffin Wares sacked caravan and move northwest to the road that opens into the Ruby Hill mine area. This group will also attack if the courier remains too long in the area of the Followers safehouse.
 * Between Chance's map and the mouth of Red Rock Canyon.
 * On the train tracks north of Nipton. (Just slightly north of Coyote den).
 * Just outside of Vault 11 in the direction of El Dorado substation.
 * North of the Emergency Service Railyard.
 * North of raided farmstead.

Appearances
Legionary assassins appear only in Fallout: New Vegas.

Bugs

 * Legionary assassins are better equipped with high-tier weapons and armor (e.g. centurion armor, super sledge or thermic lances) from the early game (levels 7-11) instead of the middle or end of the game.
 * After awhile the Legionary assassins may permanently disappear from the game no longer appearing in-game.
 * Fast traveling before the assassins have become hostile seems to cause them to despawn instead of tracking the player to their new location, but they will spawn again after three days as usual. This bug is easily reproduced by fast traveling to Outpost Charlie when Legionary Assassins are due to spawn, looking NNE (north-northeast) until you see them coming around the foot of the cliff there and then fast traveling somewhere nearby and walking back along the path they would be expected to take to track/follow you by.

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