Boaster!
I got to Nipton around level 5ish, really really wanted to kill that smug fascist bugger and all his mates, but had to bite my lip and watch them walk away. I just knew they'd have creamed me if I started anything.
Thats what frag/powder mines, any explosives you can get your hands on are for=) Use line of site so they only have one way of getting to you, a rifle with a scope and ED-E is for, I wiped them all out before they got to me=D start pulling them in 1 and 2's with my scoped rifle, once they got in range of dynamite or my merc mini nade launcher they would get that, then finished them off with a shotty as they got close. If they made it though my mini 6 lanes of 3 mine field or didnt get one shotted by a head shot sneak attack. Once i got rid of his buddys and the dogs I took him out he died as soon as he got 5-8 feed away from me=) but yeah you need alot of ammo make sure you scavange and sell all you can between goood springs around it, all the way to the out post, primm etc so you have more than enough firepower/mines all saved up for that fight so you dont ent up becoming a victum of that town yourself. But I am also using Desert Armor from the fallout new vegas mod site=) Has some killer bonus's
http://www.newvegasnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=35176
The Legion can go svck an egg Already beat the game twice, going to do so again now with all the mods that change the world and let me continue playing though once I finish the main quest line after the battle at the damn. I think I will side with the vile mr house this time around.