What's the best way to utilize recruits?

[VoidVector]

So far I have been using my original recruits from mission one, cause they are more customized (levelled up w/me). My squid of 3 is going pretty well. All of them use AK (for burst) or Hunting riffle (for range) to attack.

I was wondering how can optimized my team. Based on the manual, most of the xp is shared. On a side note new recruits don't have perks cause they never levelled up w/me but they might have higher rank (gee what does this do).

P.S. How do you get ride of bandaged?

 

[Hell Patrol]

You get rid of bandaged with a doctor bag, but if you're completely healed except for the bandaged modifier, you'll have to take some damage first and then patch yourself up with the doc bag.


My current team at the last mission :

Hell Patrol - Now concentrated solely on Energy Weapons

Stoma - Got 'im pretty early and concentrated on Big guns, now he has +200 big guns skill and is an extremely good shot, and his natural strengh of 10, his 2 carry weight perks and adv power armor make his carry weight astronomical. He was UBER-USEFUL for salvaging enemy weapons with his str of 10.

Some Chick I forgot the name of : I got her pretty late in the game, I think she's ranked Paladin Commander, she's my second energy weapons person, much more effective against robots. I used to have Stein in this place for my shotgunner/sniper/heavy weapons person, but his strength is pitiful for a heavy weapons guy (he couldn't even use miniguns), his small guns skill was only around 140, and even though right before I dumped him I gave him the weapons handling perk, I wasn't about to forgive him for all those bullets in the back and extra concussions that are the biproduct of using a heavy weapons gun in CTB mode. After the supermutant part I found no real use for another sniper added to my other 3, or a 2nd heavyweapons guy.

Farsight and Rebecca: Both snipers, both currently have insanely high small guns skill. I use Rebecca for my lockpicking, too.

Stich : He's got fairly good doctoring skills, and with his good skill point advancement his small guns skill is even better than rebecca's and farsights (he isn't as good a sniper though, do to his average perception), and I use him for sniping and shotgunning.


In short, I mostly prefer to catch 'em young and train em the way you like them, as I still have the original 2 teammates from mission 1, and 2 of the others can be recruited very early. I've never had a trapper in my party, though, all the tricks and traps books have raised my trapping skill to above 100.

 

[Guest]

The energy weapons chick is Peta, and she does rock. Its too bad there aren't any decent low ranking BOS with energy weapons. If you want a decent energy weapons user you basicly have to wait for Peta, use a HWGuy with terrible int, perception and starting e-weapon levels, or make your own. Maybe its just that I've played Fallout 2 about seven times and know how to make the perfect fighter, but the vast majority of these NPCs are useless.