The Full Story of Hub City Auto Wreckers and Captain Bridget - Fallout 4 Lore
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Also worth mentioning that Bridget has an almost full set of heavy combat armor (she doesn't have the right arm). Doesn't matter if you're level 1 or 200, she will have it. REALLY good pick up for early game if you can get past all the gunners.
Great tip!
Adonis Batheus if you have the armor mods by Andrewex you can just change that one piece to heavy. As well as a few other helpful modifications.
You can use the Finch Farm overpass (if you are allied create a ramp) or the roof of Saugus to snipe the gunners (it's easy to do that from Saugus via a hidden ramp to the roof if you are not allied of Finch farm)
Oxhorn I've known about that one for over a year. Giving the hell Gunners in Quincy also gets you heavy armor pieces as well as a piece of unique Raider power armor which boosts durability.
Sergio Fagundes I've done the ironworks roof method. Snipe Bridget and the one with the rocket launcher. Then find the assaultron that is in the far back if they don't already know you're there. After that it's easy clearing out the rest.
**PLAYS FOR 5 HOURS**
not a single vertibird appears
**PROCEEDS TO TURN ON CAMERA**
Bos: Ox is recording, begin the aerial invasion
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Jaime Navarro Oxhorn there is a small.. bunker, thing, near Hub City Auto Wreckers that has a recently decomposed body inside. It's along the river and it is a bit strange. Please check this out.
"Are Virtabirds SHALL BLOCK OUT THE SUN!!!" Then Ox shall shoot them down in the shade ;) LOL
lmao true that
Perfect spot for a vertibird den
ThaReaper319 no fuck that meme
Forgot about this
The gunners should have been a joinable faction or you'd at least have thought there should have been a war storyline between the gunners and the minutemen.
haytonism missed opportunity.damn shame
Yeah, when I first started playing I thought they were gonna turn out to be joinable. There just aren't enough options for evil gameplay. Anyone else miss the days of Fallout 2 when you could join the slavers? I only did it once, just for fun, but I really appreciated having the option.
Join the Institue, Join the BOS, or Join the Raiders - that's three evil factions to join. The Evils in FO4 are in many more shades of grey. It isn't just black and white; Evil or Good karma - its complicated, it has subtleties, and what is evil in the eyes of one is not evil in the eyes of another. I like it much better in FO4 - it's more realistic. Evil is rarely blatant....
haytonism or brotherhood of steel
It wouldve been good for any people who like to do military rps, such as myself.
As a former Army Tanker let me throw my 2 cents in here. While some folks are thinking LT might mean Lieutenant Colonel or Lieutenant General, I don't think so. First of all, in the real world, all Generals are referred to as "General" with specific rankings use mostly for formal situations only. Lieutenant Colonels are referred to as either as Lieutenant Colonel or Colonel depending on the situation and Colonel in question (some Colonels are picky about their rank). In this case, I think your initial thought of Lieutenant is correct.
I went back and read the computer entry again. As to why the Captain "sent word along to the LT, and he can decide" I think the Captain is delegating authority here. To me it sounds like the Captain really isn't interested in the cannery, that overall it won't be worth it. It's run by one guy, not a Raider gang. So the Captain probably sent word down to the LT that if he wants to take some troops over and take it he can with the Captain's approval, but it's not mission critical since they would need to find someone to run it after taking it.
Just a thought.
I cannot believe the Gunners aren't a joinable faction in the game. They're organized, ruthless, and strategic. Their mercenary army is capable of taking and holding territory, conducting counterintelligence operations, and sustained, organized assaults. They're more than a match for any faction in the game, and it's quite disappointing that Bethesda chose to make them simple enemies to kill.
Vault Boy damn shame isn't it.
I couldn't agree more!
I think fallout 4 is just one big missed opportunity not saying I don't like it just there were so many more things that could have been done.
Exactly! There was so much potential for this game, and everything feels like it could have been done 10x better.
Here here!
the more and more I learn about the Gunners I'm amazed that Bethesda didn't make them a joinable faction. they have the resources, manpower, intelligence, leadership, and structure to be a sort of neutral evil faction to kinda roll play as a merc
Try to investigate if Michael Daly (the guy that "leaves" you the first power armour you find) finds his sister on Boylston Street in Boston, or maybe find the apartment.
Prob just lead to a boarded up building with no signs at all of them. Also who went around and boarded up all the buildings?
But, almost every building is boarded up.
Well, me being me, im putting my cash simply on Bethesda not bothering on making rooms for the houses.
I've always wondered that myself. Like, who on earth takes the time to board up everyone's house during the post-nuclear apocalypse. Lore-wise, it doesn't make much (if any) sense.
It was something the general population was drilled to do at the first sign of any problems arising. On top of that, the rioting mere hours or days afterword would cause people to board up their houses until they succumbed to the radiation. Afterwards, people trying to set up shelter for weeks or months in the two centuries of anarchy afterword would give plenty of time for as much as we see in FO4.
"Welcome to my personal vertibird nightmare hell."
Thanks for making me laugh today Oxhorn.
"Another checkpoint needs your help!" - you just can't escape it, even if you run away screaming from the Minutemen. :-)
On one playthrough, I was minding my own business building on Finch Farm when my settlers went bonkers, running away, guns out. Turns out they didn't much care for the Gunners killing the brahmin. My two settlers with Fat Men took out the overpass Gunners and this caused most of the rest of the Gunners to come out of Hub City. I let my settlers take care of them. There were only two Gunners left inside all said and done. I have never seen settlers go that far away from a settlement before and I wasn't modded at all. I guess they just really liked those brahmin!
My Wife always laughs when she hears you say "Vertibird"
One thing always bothers me about the Gunners.... well, several things, but the big one is that they are mercenaries. Guns for hire, selling their services to the highest bidder. Sooooo.... who's paying them? I know Shoddycast characterised them as basically better dressed Raiders, but they're not. They wear uniforms, have a command structure, have very good armour, plenty of weapons, however, their operations don't seem to be aimed at making a profit. They are behaving like a military force, securing areas, dealing with threats, gathering intelligence and if McCready is anything to go by, establishing themselves as the _only_ mercenaries in the Commonwealth... but they're not for hire. So who is footing the bill, and it's a pretty big bill given the number of Gunners about, and what are their intentions?
They are for hire, though. We find gunner mercenaries guarding the merchant Dreth, and they were hired by an anonymous entity to raid Hallucigen.
Well, that's something, but still, they have bases and outposts in two Vaults, Gunner's Plaza, Hub City, Mass Pike Interchange and Quincy, they are occupying Greentech Genetics, Mass Fusion and Mass Bay Medical and I've probably missed a few others. That's a _lot_ of activity for one short term contract like Hallucigen and a merchant guard detail to support. Compared to Talon Company in FO 3 with their one base, one outpost within DC and who you never saw elsewhere except when doing paying work, mostly trying to kill you, the way the Gunners behave is just odd. However, I strongly doubt there's anything in-game that would shed light on the matter since I'm sure you would have found it by now. Thanks for the comment, Oxhorn, stay classy!
Cabots hire them to guard Parson's, no?
They were all over and inside Vault 95, that was a bitch
Nicholas Cross The gunners' ultimate goal: to find and bring ALL the pristine deathclaw eggs to Wellingham!
Learning about all the strategies the gunners have been using makes me think it wouldnt be to crazy to think that the gunners could've taken out the BOS by employing guerilla tacticts. Theirs obviously superior on the ground...
Okay, calling it now, the main gunner video will be something to the fact of "Why the Gunners are the Commonwealth's greatest threat."
Hmmm, good idea. Let me note that.
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Bitter Comments All you need to do is is just pay them they'll go
Almost makes me wish Bethesda had at least a dlc that allows you to become a gunner
Vertibird pilots seriously suck at their job.
GBuster nuff said
I wanna pilot my own Vertibird
Also its really fun
(Some spoilers to the minutemen questline)
When you destroy the BoS (only if you make them enemies) When they launch their aerial invasion try shooting them with Mini Nukes (If you have lots of mini-nukes)
Did they go to a Pilot Training School or learn to fly via OJT ?
this is one thing about the game that drives me nuts. it's the ranking structure it is all screwed up. I think the people at Bethesda wanted to change it for the other military factions and keep the MM. I think LT. Ryan might actually be a LT Colonel. but like I said Bethesda may have change things around. very annoying for a retired army nco to deal with. I do like the new way you are doing your videos. keep it up. I don't miss a day.
I was thinking it was Lt Col too, but I would expect that they would be addressed as "colonel", not LT. I think it's more likely that the Cpt is the CO for the unit stationed at the wrecking yard, and her main point of contact at command is Lt Ryan, so she moves the intel onto him. The Capt Bridget isn't subordinate to Ryan in rank, but Bridget's in charge of the outpost, while Ryan is in charge of, or at least involved in, coordinating gunner strategy/logistics/movements/whatever across the commonwealth.
Remember, Bridget just says she moving the intel on to the LT, not necessarily 'reporting to him'.
That's my thought too. The "LT" may be in charge of intelligence, and she's just sending the information back to him to pass on to the higher ups.
Yea that might be it. but man is it annoying.
I hear ya.
gizmoandback There's a possibility as a former active Marine that this Captain had to report to this Lt. because of a special op whereas this capt. was in charge of a ground op and the Lt. was in intelligence or something like that and providing a status of the op which in turn the Lt. would go up their specific chain of command on that end. It's not unheard of and it doesn't mean that this capt. answered to the Lt. as his boss.
Further to the north, near the coastal cottage on the same highway for that matter. There's another gunner outpost that almost always has a higher rank gunner, a sentry bot, and an assaultron in my experience. When you finally clear it out, the equipment seems to suggest that its a listening post.
This video helped me stay calm during these tornado warnings we are getting here down south
Everything okay?
I was at Saugus the other day and was just sniping Forged folk on the roof when I heard a whistling in the distance & was like “.... wait a second.... WAIT... OH-“ *BOOM* and it destroyed my companion and nearly killed me.
Naturally, I had to go to the source of the nukes.
I think for the landmines they are under a gap under the shipping containers next to the wall, in the clip thats where the blast seemed to be
You're not the if only one that gets annoyed by the brotherhood of steel
Whenever I want to do a sneak attack of Hub City, I go up to the section of Finch Farm on the overpass and snipe from there. I also set up some turrets there in case a gunner happens to wander close enough for them to spot. If you have a companion with you, there's a chance they may teleport over to the other side of the overpass, and you can command them to start a fight from there.
Yes well defend but it near minutemens control region 😆, usually i will call artillery strike before get inside
I love the the birds eye view where he shows every thing
I would like to find out more about the mutant dolphins you find around the commonwealth
Thanks to you, Ox, I can never get board with this game....I use your videos to show me something I haven't found or to remind of some place that my new guy has not been to yet....
Each episode is worth the wait! 😄
yes it is. love his channel. binge watch while playing so I don't miss anything.
Andrew Stiokas so I'm not the only one that feels that way! :)
Explosive Penguins: you are not. Oxhorn makes Fallout 4 so interesting. everytime he does a video. I try to go to where he was at and dig in to what he was show and talking about. been killed many times because I was to low of a level for some areas. the great thing is we still have far harbor and nuka world to hear about.
Explosive Penguins Well ur not alone
Lieutenant Ryan is probably a false rank so he is not targeted
It took me a little while to realize I was getting killed by a nuke mine while running past that place. 😖
For sure LT is referring to Lieutenant, but it might be that she is passing the info to an LT because he is the POC for whatever intel or strategy department the Gunners may have. He doesn't necessarily outrank her, but his position in whatever department may make him someone she has to relay info to and he gets it to her actual superiors. I've seen it in our real-life military, well something similar anyways.
I come at them from the top of Saugus Ironworks now. I've had a lot of success sniping from there, and the assaultron can't really hit you up there
Same here, that's a good location for thinning them out.
Did that by accident in my playthrough. Was messing around up top Saugus, and Ada decided she wanted to explore, and they chased her to me. Had to snipe them, although Bridget and the missile-launching Gunner were quite annoying once they discovered me, as they had seemingly infinite range and accuracy...
I wonder how it would have been if they had a Gunners DLC were you can become a Gunner
**Land mine starts going off Oxhorn: Let's stop on top of it and look
Congratulations on the new shop. Power Armour themed T-shirt or Hoodie? Maybe with the helmets as the hood or hat? That would be cool...Bless your hustle and keep up the good work.
@10:06 for the discussion of ranks. While a Lieutenant is below the rank of Captain, it depends on who is in command. If the military general places a LT in command of an operation, then all personnel who are assigned to that operation report to the Commanding Officer the LT, regardless of actual rank.
If you saw 'Saving Private Ryan', there is a scene where CPT Miller reports to CPL Henderson as PVT Ryan was under the CPL's command.
Positional authority (for example, second in command of a unit) generally exceeds rank authority.
"Captain Bridget wields a fat man"
Well that's something I never thought I'd hear
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So many security systems: mines, brahmins, turrets, brotherhood of steel and missile launchers - these Gunners are sure crafty.
Brotherhood Vertibirds really are the UH-60 Black Hawks of the future in terms of their propensity for crashing
I do like the Gunners. One of the few actual threats to a high-level character, and rich rewards if you can catch the commanders unaware before they get into their power armour.
If you have a rifle with a good scope and some sort of jetpack, you can use the third floor of a ruined house that's about two hundred yards to the east to pick off the gunners, and the distance gives you time to wait out searches before getting back to melon popping.
I dig the addition of the marked arial shots of these locations. Nice touch. :)
If you are trying to be semi-stealthy taking the area. It is better to do it from the top down coming from the direction of Finch Farm. Just get on the over pass at Finch Farm, and you can snipe the gunner with the rocket launcher. Then after killing the rocket launcher jet pack over and snipe the rest on the overpass. From there you can snipe the ones in the camp. Alternatively You can climb up to the roof of steelworks and snipe the ones on the overpass from the cat walks at the steelworks. You can then jet pack over from the steel works to the overpass. I usually play a sniper character, and I have found having higher elevation than the enemy helps a whole bunch.
i like the air overview aspect, it gives more touch to it.
Another lunch break, another video. Thanks for taking me out of my world every day :)
I cleared this area at night with a stealth character, the only part that was hard was the bot, she was hiding inside the subway car and she spotted me well outside the usual aggro range of the POI. I needed to clear it so I could use the overpass to snipe the roof guards at Saugus. now I have to go back and get all those notes you found.
In regards to the Gunners I think we're missing some information about the faction as a whole. I think Lieutenant Ryan is in fact a Lieutenant Colonel or Lieutenant General. Gunners can spawn with npc's titled as Brigadier. So I think it's possible there's an even higher command we haven't met.
(14:45) Clint is also a lieutenant.
(14:50) Lieutenant is the lowest *officer* rank. It is above all of the enlisted ranks (private, corporal, sergeant). Since Wes at Gunner's Plaza is a Captain, Ryan would be second in command there. Bridgette would refer matters to Ryan that he had been placed in charge of coordinating, even though she outranks him.
In the gunners that may be true. IRL there is Second lieutenant, First Lieutenant, then Captain.
what trips me out is how much i've played this game and how many things get revealed when i watch your videos, sir!
Well, I usually clear Saugus Iron Works first, then snipe them from the catwalks around the furnace on the roof. It's best to lay a few mines about in case the Assaultron and one or two manage to evade.
It's awesome to see the settlers in the slog to take on the ironwork and the flinch take on the gunners then flatten the Super mutants.
One of the most fortified exterior dungeons in the world, great to take over if you have the conquest mod.
Holy mother of...All that shrapnel from the third vertibird crash
Having the Brotherhood arriving to the Commonwealth really breaks alot of encounters both if one has gotten rid of them or if one hasn't. I started a new campaign where I tried to make sure I have explored enough of the Commonwealth before I went on the quest that makes the Brotherhood arrive. My own story for my character is that, after securing most if not all of the settlements and the Castle with the Minutemen the Brotherhood arrives and finds a already organised community under the guard of Minute men. This gives them pause but they still take over the airport and sets up their operations. It is a pity that this wasn't part of the main game. If your character either was or wasn't the General of the Minutemen the Brotherhood would react differently towards you and the Commonwealth. Open warfare with the militia that has the people's support would not look good for the Brotherhood and could makes the leadership look bad.
Great vid Oxhorn. Your content has made me interested in playing Fallout 4, and in a different way than when I first bought it:)
If I'm playing a power armor character, what I usually do is skyrim my way up to the top of the overpass over Finch Farm. Then I use a jetpack to fly to the Gunners' overpass; it's a bit of a stretch, but it's do-able. From there, I take out the Gunner with the missile launcher as stealthily as possible, then make taking out the Fat Man a priority. From there, it's fairly easy to pick off the rest from the overpass.
Another option is that captain Bridget meant Lt.Colonel , someone who would be above a captain, and would probably be the one that coordinates information for their Colonel who might be the person in charge of the entire commonwealth area for the Gunners. That is assuming the gunners have that level of power and that large of an operation.
I love the gunner videos as I never would of thought the gunners have such a story, keep up your amazing story telling,
You can go up on the outside of the iron works and snipe a lot of the gunners on the over pass and in the scrap yard. Two shoot gauze rifle with a long range recon scope will make quick work of them. Also very fun, but requires patients.
even the great oxhorn can't sneak up on the gunners
If you go across the river from finch farms and enter through the subway you can sneak in . You can all so snipe them from long range from on top of the Ironworks
I love ur new way of introducing the area ur telling about by pinpointing everything. Great job ox
Ox they could be referring to the Lieutenant Colonel (LTC) and shorting it to LT because they are not worried about the LTC coming there as the higher ups are probably further away and not close enough to check up upon them yet, much like the Enclave on the oil rig or the Brotherhood in the West before the two distinct splits that happened with the midwest and the east.
Wouldn't surprise me if the gunners are linked to some kind of enclave remnant.
I could also imagine that there was an idea to make them a joinable faction very early in the design phase, but this was abandoned.
Hey governor of the commonwealth (Oxhorn) still really enjoying your channel and watched your 5 criteria for mods video again and I started again in fallout and took cheat mods out and just have customisation mods that don't give me an advantage (I'm on PS4) and did the same for skyrim and really enjoying more and the challange too. Keep up the great work you do:)
Could stand for lieutenant colonel which is higher than captain and major. O3 sometimes use it as slang for their direct superiors seeing captains are usually company commanders and LTC's are usually battalion commanders.
That feeling when you face a raider or gunner with a fat man and they shoot it at point blank range killing you but they themselves walk away without a scratch.
Really enjoying these aerial views of the locations!
I was working on croup manor and when I was building and a vertibird crashed, then not five seconds later four cars exploded near libertaria so I had to go over there killed some of the raiders and trying to see what happens. THEN a random encounter spawned six rust Devils, and at the impact site two raiders survived. Then randomly a car blew up near nhaunt chapel. No reason, not a thing was there. This was god damb crazy.
The reference to passing the query about the robots to the LT may not indicate a report to a superior but a request for assistance to a technical specialist.
The Lieutenant might be an intelligence analyst (or gunner equivalent) and the Captain is going to consult with him before any firm decisions are made.
Please keep pumping these out, I wish I could play this again but well. life happened so I experiance the game through you.
I love the vids man. I get a little carried away and watch like ten videos at a time. Great job
So you have the equipment to show 10 videos at a time ? I bet listening to 10 Oxhorns all talking at the same time was fun too.
Stealth works better if you snipe from the hill near Dunwich Borers. You can hit targets on the overpass and on the walls, and you can pick off the assaultron when it runs out the "front" entrance.
My theory is that the Gunners dwell from Vault 75. Or they have ties to the Enclave Remnants. It still feels like there was something more to them than just another Raider type. Like Bethesta had other plans for them.
I keep mishearing "Dunwich Borers" as "Dunwich Horrors" and thinking I'm about to get a supernatural plot twist.
That's way down at the bottom.
I'm assuming that Lt. does in fact stand for Lieutenant, but rather than claim that Lt. is higher than captain (which doesn't even work because Lt. Ryan reported to Captain Wes), I think that Lt. is actually lower rank. What's going on here is that Lt. Ryan is in charge of certain covert ops, and as such Cap. Bridget reports to him regarding these operations. I'm a former infantry Marine, and we had a saying: billet over rank. That means that the job you have (your billet) is more important than your rank. So sometimes Corporals would be placed in charge of Sergeants, just because the Srg. was working on something that the Corp. was in charge of. While that was avoided over all, it still happened, and if it's your job to be in charge of something then that's what you do.
It might seem weird for a corporal (or Lt.) to be placed in charge of something that a Srg. (or captain) had to work on, but this video actually shows a perfect example of why that happens. People often work for different departments or detachments, and get promoted by different people or for different reasons. Here we see a Captain in charge of a large outpost, but the covert op being run by HQ is under the command of a Lt. from HQ, so she leaves those decisions to him. Most likely there were plenty of other decisions that Lt. Ryan had no part of, and he couldn't have shown up and started ordering Capt. Bridget around. But ignoring Lt. Ryan's role as the guy in charge of that specific operation would have made Captain Wes very angry.
Maybe the L.T. manages the Gunners who are skilled in tech and stuff
It could also be that the Lt. Captain Bridget is referring to is a Lt. Colonel which would be a higher rank than either Wes or herself. Every once in a while military types will use that as shorthand for that rank. Could also be that this was a handoff to a lower ranked officer as in she didn't care and was willing to let a subordinate make the call if he had the troops.
Honestly hope they do something in the next Fallout game with the Gunners. They seem like a former army unit from the war to survived intact and turned to mercenary work to keep itself going over the next two hundred years.
It would explain the large amount of military hardware they have as well as their ability to recruit as they likely would have a stronghold somewhere that may very well be about as strong as anything an individual chapter of the Brotherhood of Steel might have.
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Funniest thing I've heard all day XD
Well, it seems you have met Mr. Murphy's Law. If you run into Murphy himself, do as you will be leave something for me to carve up. LOL
In all my walkthrougs Ctp. Bridget allways wear poder armor.
Even at low levels, she uses a t51
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Years later your videos are so freaking badass and helpful
I remember the first time I got here at a lower level. There was a legendary gunner with a kneecapper minigun and it was almost impossible to enter. Sniping helped, but it was tedious.
Sniping is tedious but you don't die as often, and it is effective.
Hey Ox!! Love the lore vids!!! thanks so much they make me wanna keep playing the game :D
Oxhorn, LT Ryan has probably the Lieutenant Colonel rank, it's just above the Captain's, and it also explains and makes more sense, because the Gunners uses USA Army Ranks and Chain of command, like the brotherhood out on the west coast does. but it doesn't explain how captain Wes is the head of the whole operation in Boston.
Between Captain and Lt Colonel is the rank of Major.
You are really good at what you're doing. Your lore videos are among the best availables. Have you thought about doing Mass Efect Andromeda lore videos? I feel that it could be great.
Ox there is a mod called In Plain Sight that states the Gunners are a portion of re-branded Enclave that would be interesting if it was true. I also think a play through of that mod would make a good Stream.
Oh, I recently had to defend Finch Farm.
Happens that not only Raiders attacked, but also those Gunners moved over hunting the brahmin and my caravan coming from the Slog brought half the guys from Saugus with him. Oh and then there is the Mr Gutsy on the road,
Did you ever experience when the super mutants attack them? Like 4-5 SM's with one suicide attacker. I followed and watched, was pretty good. Happened on like 3 of my play throughs.
this is my favorite Oxhorn video
I'm pretty sure the ranks you see when targeting gunners reflect the level of difficulty of that enemy, which adapts to the level of your character, but the ranks mentioned in the Lore are pre-scripted. This leads to these discontinuities when a Captain (levelled enemy) reports to a Lieutenant (scripted lore).
If you arrived at a lower level you might well have found a Sargent or Corporal in command.
I did notice in the Gunners plaza video there were like 20 Captains and one Sargent.
It would have been very interesting if the Gunners had been more filled out and used as a joinable faction. From a certain standpoint, they can almost be seen as a dark mirror of the Minutemen. To be honest, with as much as the Gunners and Quincy were talked up, I fully expected an epic showdown between them and the Minutemen at some point.
They leave that showdown to you as you usually represent the Minutemen.
i first came up on this place when the guy with the missile launcher was trying to pick off radstags below the overpass lol
Those were the two headed cows. Braman, or Bramen, or Bramin or something like that.
You can gain entry climbing the wall at the same point you exited the compound, near that exterior shed. It isn't the best spot, as I found myself quickly spotted and under too many guns to hold the ground. Still, I was able to get a couple sniper kills before having to run. The Hub proved a hard nut to crack for my primarily sneak and shoot character. After seeing your troubles, I don't feel as badly about the stim-packs I spent there.
I'm surprised that the Gunners don't see Longneck Luckowski's Cannery as a source of income. If they can get hunting teams assembled to bring down creatures like mirelurks, yao guay, mole rats, and radscorpions for food processing. But I guess that isn't the goal of this mercenary group. And having forward operations centers at Hub City Auto Wreckers and Galaxy News Network Studios would give them a huge advantage over other factions. They could use those locations as a means to stage invasions, run covert ops, and perform recon missions on the various locations and factions of the greater Boston area. Not a bad plan but they're mercenaries. Who are they doing this for, I wonder?
Nobody really knows…
First Theory:
I believe that LT thing may be a division of labour. LT Ryan is stationed at the Gunner HQ. Their job might be operational planning, logistics etc. It's an administrative job and they would have the best overview of the available resources such as specialists capable of running the factory.
The Captain is out leading a patrol/encampment. Her job is to do her duties related to her posting. That is combat, patrols, scouting, entrenching etc. She has a field work focused command.
LT Ryan might not be as useful in combat as a Patrol Captain, so they are in a lower rank, in order to avoid a chain of command problem.
Second Theory:
The word Lieutenant has historically been used to denote someone who is second-in-command. In that sense, Lieutenant Ryan may actually be the right-hand-person of the Leader and thus the second highest ranking officer in the Gunner's.
Captain Bridget's terminal:
it might not be bridget's terminal. She might be there to read it and take action instead of her lieutenant.
Let's assume that someone else is in charge of the camp, and wrote the logs + sent a message to the lieutenant. The lieutenant then reported to his superior (captain bridget) who was already patroling in the area. She than decided to go to hub city in order to check on all the logs herself, and come to a decision.
But the most probable explanation would still be that bethesda messed up and assigned a captain NPC next to a terminal talking about reporting to a LT.