how did you survive so many chainsaws and cowboy carbines?
Oh, make no mistake, *I* didn't survive.

Since I was recording using tfc for the angles/couldn't fight, I used tgm for my chr. I tried once without it but then my not-moving invisible self on the ground would (obviously) die in 20-30 seconds and everything would go in slo-mo the rest of the time, ruining the movie (if you're in tfc mode, when you die it doesn't go to loading screen...).
So all companions doing the damage. They all had 18DT and I made two alterations: increased Veronica/Arcade's hit points by 40 & Cass's by 30 (not a lot, but it makes a difference) and increased the vanilla sniper rifle and vanilla plasma rifle to have 300 'health' instead of their 75ish. Otherwise those two weapons would get shot out of their hands in 10 seconds, which was no fun for
filming either. Some runs 3-4 of the companions would fall down about half-way through, sometimes they'd get up again, sometimes not. Some attempts they all remained standing - they had buffout/stimpacks in their inventory and often looked like they were doing a healing dance, they were bending over so often. The fights lasted 1.5-2.5 minutes.

Going to try Enclave & other enemies next...