Editing Brotherhood of Steel (section)

==Arsenal==

As a faction of [[Adeptus Mechanicus|techno-hoarding]] [[Black Templars|warrior-crusaders]], the Brotherhood of Steel goes to war armed with the ''"best"'' technology leftover from the Great War, which is mostly power armor and energy weapons. Because they can't exactly build more of them (again, unless we're talking FO4 BoS that has just as much zappy-zappy whirly-gigs as the plot requires), the BoS considers technology to be sacred, and will do anything in their power to [[Blood Ravens|"acquire" more of it]]. 

Most members of the Brotherhood consider firearms to be primitive, and so arm themselves with laser rifles and [[Multilaser|gatling lasers]] out the ass, like Space Marines written by a [[C.S. Goto|certain Irish leper]]. It's really strange considering that their [[Lasgun|lasguns]] aren't that much better from what the Imperial Guard has (las rifles are just as effective on Super Mutants as lasguns would be on the [[Ork|other greenskinned brute]]), and they'll actually find themselves [[Dakka|outgunned]] by Rangers with .50 antimateriel rifles. 

When they can find them, the Brotherhood will also utilize [[Plasma]] weaponry, which in Fallout is just Lasers+. Plasma weaponry is more experimental as evidenced by the exposed wirings and capacitors, but unlike 40K, they [[FAIL|won't explode when you shake it too much]]. That being said, due to their rarity and the fact that they cannot make more of them, Plasma weaponry tends to be in the hands of the most experienced Paladins, or war spoils looted from the Enclave. 

The Brotherhood of Steel is probably '''the''' most iconic aspect of the Fallout universe, and that's definitely because of the Power Armor they wear, which is ironic because nobody really ''likes'' them in-universe, and Fallout 2's cover art shows a [[Feral World|dirty feral tribal]] wearing a ruined Power Helmet, an act [[Butthurt|that would throw any self-respecting Paladin into a bitchfit]]. Even though Power Armor's not exclusive to them (and depending on the game/chapter, they can't even build more of them), in most games, they are the most prodigious wielders of them (and so, targets for the PC), will probably train you in its use (so that you can betray them later), or will be just another background faction for you to fuck over. 

They canonically wield three types of Power Armor:
[[File:T-45.png|thumb|Dragon ball pauldrons]]
'''T-45d''' - The "early mark" power armor introduced in Fallout 3. This was the first series of Power Armor that actually ran for more than an hour, featuring a built-in fusion reactor. The D.C. chapter of the Brotherhood found ''thousands'' of these underneath the ruins of the Pentagon, which they immediately used to replace the aging T-51s they had with them. While the T-45 was inferior to pretty much every Power Armor mark after it (Except, ironically, the "latest" armor rolled out by their opponents in the Capital Wasteland Enclave, the Enclave MKII), they had so much of these that it quickly became their standard model. The T-45 was then added to the canon in all the other games, with the T-45 being the "surplus" armor used by other chapters. In Fallout New Vegas, the Wastelander PC is "gifted" with "refurbished" (i.e. repaired to the bare minimum) T-45d after they join the Brotherhood because they're dicks like that.
[[File:FNV T51b Armour.png|thumb|The Big Tiddy Armor]]
'''T-51'''- The iconic Fallout Armor, present in every game since FO1, where it was just called "Power Armor". Very SPESS MEHREEN, even has the same kind of [[Pauldrons]]. In FO1 and FO3, this is the '''best''' armor you can find, with only a single suit available in the Capital Wasteland (again, [[Derp|for some reason]]). In other games, the Enclave Power Armor (and the T-60 power armor in FO4) are all undoubtedly better and cooler looking, so this armor gets thrown to the wayside.
[[File:T-602.png|thumb|What if you made the T-45 even more of a chad]]
'''T-60''' - Created because Bethesda wanted to include a new Mark of Power Armor in every game ([[Money|for the same reason that GW will make a new type of Marine for every occassion]]), T-60 armor was ''supposedly'' the newest model available to the US Army, rolled out on a limited-scale ''exactly'' before the bombs fell, [[Bullshit|which is why we've never seen it before]]. It looks like a tankier T-45 and is vastly superior to the T-51 and T-45. The East Coast Brotherhood just happened to find some when they were doing recon in Boston. The fact that the armor was only produced in limited quantities ''juuuuust'' before the Bombs fell is the reason Bethesda gave for the limited number of Power Armored troops in FO4 (ignoring the fact that they should still have T-45 and T-51 in massive quantities considering that Boston is the center of American tech and that everyone, from [[Planetary Defence Force|State Militia]] to fucking [[Cultist|Raiders]], have power armor.)