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Fallout 3 Hints

Small Guns

  • 1 of 12: This bobblehead is hidden deep within the National Guard Depot (location 12 on the Zone 6 Map).
  • 2 of 12: Enter the National Guard building, ready to fight lots of robots.
  • 3 of 12: From where you enter, turn left and go over some rubble and through a gas leak to reach the top of some stairs that lead down.
  • 4 of 12: Don't go down them, but instead jump over (or edge carefully around) the large nearby floor hole.
  • 5 of 12: Go through the doorway past the hole and down some stairs, then go through another doorway.
  • 6 of 12: Turn left past it and go over to the chalkboard, then look across the room to find a locked utility door.
  • 7 of 12: After you use the electrical switch, jump over the desk that's just to the right of it, then fall carefully down to the open utility door.
  • 8 of 12: Go through it to find a room that's apparently a dead end.
  • 9 of 12: Go down the stairs past the hatch doors to reach the door to the National Guard Armory area.
  • 10 of 12: Go forward to find a big utility door that's opened by using the wall switch that's just to the right of it.
  • 11 of 12: Past that door is a room with lots of good stuff on shelves. The bobblehead is on the small pillar-side shelves near the locked bunker door.
  • 12 of 12: NOTE: If you want to know how to open the bunker door, see the hints for getting the unique Experimental MIRV weapon.