FO2: fighting Lenny

[Doc. Noth]

Anyone knows what happens if you DON'T kill Lenny while fighting him in NCR ?

... you go down, that's one way

Lenny runs away (so you can end combat) when he's got only 1 hp (with 2 he still fights back). The trick is that my game - and probably not only mine - keeps me stuck-in-the-ring when loaded from an in-combat savegame. The way I see it is to beat Lenny to 1 hp without loading (um... saving changes nothing), which is hard (... not to kill him with your last punch).

Anyone has done it before ?

 

[Big T]

Lenny runs away (so you can end combat) when he's got only 1 hp (with 2 he still fights back). The trick is that my game - and probably not only mine - keeps me stuck-in-the-ring when loaded from an in-combat savegame. The way I see it is to beat Lenny to 1 hp without loading (um... saving changes nothing), which is hard (... not to kill him with your last punch).

What happens if you knock him out? (ie: a critical to the noggin)

 

[Doc. Noth]

well...
he falls, and assuming you didn't get an instant kill he gets up sooner or later and the flying circus is back online. I couldn't knock him down so that the combat could end during his 'sleep'. Dunno if it's impossible though.

Although I managed to knock him down once and (a pity) saved, then killed him (not good), so loaded afterwards, but then he refused to get up despite being still alive - like it says in Per's guide, savegames from ring fights don't do much good, if any.

 

[Doc. Noth]

I couldn't knock him down so that the combat could end

Did it... but it just gets you stuck in the ring with Lenny being obnoxious again, until you restart combat again and kill him. Then the thread with Merk goes on normally.
still, I couldn't beat Lenny down to 1 hp, gonna keep trying...