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Fallout 3 Hints
Annotated Map Key
1 = AntAgonizer's Lair. You may come here on the misc. quest "The Superhuman Gambit." <Nuka-Cola Quantum>
2 = Canterbury Commons. You can get the misc. quest "The Superhuman Gambit" here. <Melee Weapons & Repair skill books, Highwayman's Friend>
3 = Robot Repair Center. You may come here on the misc. quest "The Superhuman Gambit." <Energy Weapons & Speech skill books>
4 = Scrapyard. <Big Guns & Melee Weapons & Small Guns skill books>
5 = Wheaton Armory. This is a major raider base. <Big Guns skill book>
6 = Vault 108. <Charisma bobblehead, Lockpick & Speech & Unarmed skill books, Nuka-Cola Quantum>
7 = Corvega Factory. The factory is overrun with giant ants, including an ant queen. <Repair & 2 Science & Speech skill books>
8 = Bethesda Ruins. This large urban area features many raiders and ghouls. <Lockpick bobblehead, Barter & Big Guns & Melee Weapons & Repair & Science & Sneak skill books, 3 mini nukes, Nuka-Cola Quantum>
9 = Chryslus Building. You'll find super mutants in this building. <Science & Small Guns & Unarmed skill books, Nuka-Cola Quantum>
10 = Rock Creek Caverns. You'll find mirelurks in these caverns. <Nuka-Cola Quantum>
11 = Friendship Heights. There's a raider camp here, plus an entrance to the Tenleytown/Friendship Station underground metro area, which you may visit on a main quest.
12 = National Guard Depot. There's a major weapons stash in the basement armory. <Small Guns bobblehead, Barter & Big Guns & Energy Weapons & Explosives skill books, Experimental MIRV, 5 mini nukes, Nuka-Cola Quantum>
13 = Chevy Chase North (Chevy Chase interior region).
a = Regulator HQ. See the undocumented quest "The Regulators." <Nuka-Cola Quantum>
b = Jackknifed freeway truck. <Sneak skill book>
c = Military truck.
d = Drainage Chamber entrance grate. <Melee Weapons skill book>
e = Jackknifed blue and yellow truck.
f = Corvega township.
g = Bethesda suburbs. <Barter skill book, Stabhappy>
h = Raiders and truck wreck. <Big Guns & Sneak skill books, mini nuke>
i = Small freeway stash. <Nuka-Cola Quantum>
j = Jackknifed blue truck.
k = Bethesda coach station.
l = Stash under the bridge. Be sure to disarm the frag mine before going for the stash. <Explosives skill book>
m = Jackknifed ammo truck.
n = Shelter door under bridge.
o = Super mutant bonfire. <mini nuke>
p = Courtyard fountain. You may find a bound captive here that you can free to gain karma.
q = National Guard parking area.
