For an overview of combat shotgun models in various games, see Combat shotgun.

	Fallout Tactics weapon Neostead Combat SG
	Damage & attacks damage Single: 15 - 25 Burst: 13 - 22 damage type Normal att. modes Single (Action Points 4, Range 22) Burst (Action Points 5, Range 17) Ammunition ammo type 12 gauge shotgun shell ammo cap. 12 burst rounds 3 Requirements strength req. 6 hands req. 2 Other weight 10 lbs. value $1700

 

	The following is based on Fallout Tactics and some details might contradict canon.

The Neostead Combat SG is a weapon in Fallout Tactics: Brotherhood of Steel.

CharacteristicsEdit

A fully automatic shotgun that does decent damage but loses its effectiveness at later levels.

LocationsEdit

• This shotgun can be located in the town of Quincy's detention center, inside one of the prison cells in a chest.
• It can also be found in random encounters while traveling the Wasteland directly around Bunker Alpha once the Brahmin Wood mission has been completed. Ghost-like "citizen-thin" NPCs often carry one each (along with a stimpak and some 12 gauge shotgun shells). If you can't see it in the initial steal inventory window, let one of your team members get caught stealing from that NPC; on the next turn when you enter the Steal window, it will be there. You need about 80% Steal skill to be able to grab the weapon. If the NPCs wander around a lot, enter turn-based mode by pressing Enter.
• Cold Water, 4 carried by BOS deserters
• Scott City, 1 carried by robot

Behind the scenesEdit

In real life, the Neostead is NOT an automatic shotgun, it's a pump-action shotgun with a "forward-back" handguard movement instead of the classic "back-forward". Its main distinguishing feature is a unique double magazine, allowing the shooter to immediately switch between two different types of ammunition (ie non-lethal shells for riot control, with lethal rounds held in reserve for emergencies). It was developed by two South African engineers, Tony Neophytou and Wilmore Stead, in the early 1990s.