» Wed Dec 29, 2010 8:28 pm
Correct - talk to Eddie (the Powder Gangers leader) in the 2nd floor of the administrative offices (?) inside the facility, and do his quest line (http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/I_Fought_the_Law), and he'll ask you to find out the NCR's plans to invade. Then go to Primm, and you can (apparently) talk to the locals and get the info, or more easily (which is what I did), pickpocket the plans off of the NCR LT. Then you can talk to the NCR LT and betray Eddie, and you'll be assigned to meet up with some NCR NPC near the camp and do the assault.
If the Power Gangers are hostile, well... shame on you! Use silenced weapons and sneak kills against them to prevent that... or, if it's too late for that, you can improve your rep with the Power Gangers by rescuing some of their people that got taken as slaves from Nipton. (http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Booted) Again, to avoid losing rep with the Legion, use a silenced weapon and kill while "[HIDDEN]" in sneak mode. If it's too late for that also... dunno... old save? New character? Console cheat?
I ended up doing the Booted quest **after** helping the NCR storm the facility (which got me from neutral to hated), and it bumped my status back up with the Powder Gangers to "Sneering Punk," so they weren't hostile to me, despite having massacred countless numbers of them. (Same trick works to keep the Legion from going hostile, while purging their slaving asses from the wasteland.)