Ranger HQ Map with Walkthrough

The Ranger HQ will be your base for your Colorado adventures in Wasteland 3. The first time you come to it, it is ruined. You will systematically rebuild it during the game, filling it with new equipment and staff.

First Visit in Ranger HQ in Wasteland 3 Walkthrough

On your first visit to Ranger HQ after escaping the Ambush Site, the base looks different than it will in the future. Therefore, before you leave this location for the first time, go around it carefully, check everything and open all containers.

When you come back here, some of the containers and items will disappear.

Entrance from Ambush Site

You arrive here after escaping the Ambush Site under the Ranger's Last Hope Mission.

NPC Diligent Joe greets you.

NPC The Patriarch talk to him.

Mission Completed: Ranger's Last Hope

Leadership2 do not let Patriarch to kill Dorsey.

Do not use First Aid:2 on him or you Patriarch's Marshals -1 Rep.

Thank him and Patriarch's Marshals +1 Rep.

Mission Home away from home Home away from home Mission

The Patriarch gave us an old, prewar air base to serve as our headquarters in Colorado. He told us to get the base up and running with the help of Marshal Kwon and Sergei Greatski.

Mission Step: Home away from home Talk to Marshal Kwon and Sergei Greatski inside the Base.

The Patriarch directed us to two of his people, Marshal Darius Kwon and Sergei Greatski, who are waiting for us in our new HQ. They'll help us get started.

NPC Pvt. Jodie Bell Now she is tired, you will be able to talk to her later in the game. You can join her as Companion in the future, she will be waiting in [01].

Ranger HQ entrance

Companion Marshal Kwon He is your future companion, but at the moment it is too early for that.

NPC Sergei Greatski

Talk to them.

Mission Step: Home away from home Enter the War Room and wake the Base's Main Systems

The war room is just north of the entrance hall. Now that the door is unlocked, we can go inside and use the mainframe computer to awaken the main systems.

War Room

Servitor Bots They are activated because someone previously turned on the alarm, you have to deactivate them Kiss Ass 1 or Sneaky Shit 1

Usable Mainframe Computer in the center, use it: "Install yourself as Commander" (All members of your team must stand at the terminal.)

NPC The Patriarch Talk to him carefully using all dialogue options.

This is the Mission you should do first.

Mission Cornered Rats Cornered Rats Mission

Shortly before we arrived at Peterson Airforce Base, a large group of Dorseys attacked Colorado Springs. The attack failed, and most of the holdouts are holed up the Garden of the Gods. The Patriarch asked us to help his Marshals deal with them. [Reward: Ranger HQ brig warden, Merc Armor, Merc Helmet, Merc Leggings]

Mission Step: Cornered Rats Talk to Sheriff Daisy in Downtown Colorado Springs.

The Patriarch said we can start earning some goodwill by helping his Marshals deal with the remainder of the Dorsey forces. We should talk to Sheriff Daisy at the Marshal Headquarters in Colorado Springs.

Save these three missions for later.

Mission The Zealot The Zealot Mission

Valor Buchanan, the Patriarch's younger son, has allied himself with the Gippers in Denver. The Reagan fanatics have cut off the oil supply for Colorado Springs, and the Patriarch wants both his son and the oil back.

Mission Step: The Zealot Travel to Denver.

Travel to the ruins of Denver and locate Valor Buchanan.

Mission The PsychopathThe Psychopath Mission

Vic Buchanan, the Patriarch's son, recently reemerged from exile with an army of drugged-addled freaks at his back and has taken the mountain town of Aspen. The Patriarch wants him returned to Colorado Springs alive.

Mission Step: The Psychopath Travel to Aspen and arrest Vic Buchanan.

Victory Buchanan, the Patriarch's eldest son, has invaded the town of Aspen. It sounds like anyone who was there when he arrived is dead or about to be.

The Patriarch told us he's heard that Vic has some Rangers held hostage.

Mission The Traitor The Traitor Mission

Locate Liberty Buchanan, the Patriarch's daughter, and bring her back home to Colorado Springs.

Mission Step: The Traitor Discover the whereabouts of Liberty Buchanan.

Liberty Buchanan has disappeared. We need to figure out where she is, but without any leads we can't make forward progress on this mission.

Continue to chat with The Patriarch

Say: "Sir, yes sir!" and get Patriarch's Marshals +1 Rep.

Mission Completed: Home away from home

Ranger HQ Wasteland 3 Walkthrough

The base will change with your next visits.

If you find snowballs lying on the ground, pick them up, equip your character with them and throw one of them at a member of your party to get Heads Up! Achievement

War Room

Usable Mainframe Computer Examine the Security Systems Nerf Stuff 2

Container (SE) check for Weapon Mod.

Container (S) check for Armor Parts.

Later in game

NPC Sergei Greatski he can also be in [01]

Speak to Sgt. Greatski to hire new Rangers for your squad. Your squad can have up to six members. No more than four can be Rangers. The other two slots may be filled by Companions, such as Marshal Kwon. Companions are unique NPCs who aren't officially Rangers, but want to help out all the same. You'll find plenty of Companions on your journey throughout Colorado.

Mission Full House Full House Mission

Our new headquarters will only be as useful as the people we can recruit. We should also focus on getting our critical infrastructure up and running.

Mission Step: Full House Recruit personnel for Ranger HQ: A Brig Jailor, A Medbay Doctor, An Armory Quartermaster, And Garage Mechanics.

Greatski suggested we build up the base before pursuing The Patriarch's children. At minimum, we should staff the Brig, Medbay, Armory, and Garage, as well as fill out our squad.

Greatski suggested we speak to Sheriff Daisy, head of the Colorado Marshals, who can be found in Downtown Colorado Springs. He thinks she might be able to help us find some recruits.

Companion Marshal Kwon now you can recruit him to your Team.

NPC Corporal Marcelo Gonzales talk to him.

Garage

later in game Original state.

Corpse First Aid 2

Rusted Slicer Dicer if you fix it, you have to fight it Mechanics 3 Item Slicer Dicer Self Assempler Assault Rifle Pulse Gun

Broken Trucks x 2 Lockpicking 2

Container near stairs Cassette Tape The Automated Chauffeur

Once you leave Ranger HQ and come back here, the Garage will be cleaned up.

Later in game

You will have a fully functional Garage when completing the Unwelcome Guests Mission.

Mama Cotter or Gideon Reyes will send you Mechanics

Usable Customizing Kodiak

later in game After Thicker than Water Mission

NPC Randy Gett NPC Nita Gett

If you talk to Randy Gett in Garage, after successful completion of the Thicker than Water Mission, you will get Vehicular Combat Perk - Bonus damage to vehicles +5%.

Cyborg Chicken Farm

Cyborg Chicken

There is one Cyborg Chicken in the pen and there is nothing you can do about it yet. But if you meet another Animal Companion Cyborg Chicken in Colorado, tame them and bring them here. You will need Animal Whisperer 3-5 to tame them. You have to bring them all and lose none of them, and a surprise awaits you.

Location of Cyborg Chickens:

Ranger HQ - first one
Garden of the Gods near Mass Gave
Sans Luxe Apartments - closed room at SE
Broadmoor Heights in The Church
Old Survivalist Bunker below Broadmoor Heights

After you Visit Denver and Aspen, during Scar Collectors attack on Ranger HQ is the awakening of your Cyborg Chickens.

If you had Cyborg Chickens five in your pen, they would merge into one in the "Poultron".

Companion Poultron is an AI-driven companion that will now be part of your party, without taking the place of other companions.

Bawk! Achievement - You assembled Poultron

Animal Companion Dog Combat Speed +0.1 You can add him to your party, but you can only have one Animal Companion at a time.

Mess Hall

Toster Toaster Repair 3 Item Tarjan Token Item Toaster Repairman's Badge Toaster Repair +1

Later in game

You will have a fully functional Mess Hall when you find the real Chief Masato completing the My Body Requires This Mission in The Bizarre.

Here later in game you will be able to recruit Companion Scotchmo - The Hobo Achievement

Barracks

NPC Del Hackett talk to her.

Alow Refugees to stay in Ranger HQ Wastelander Refugees +5 Rep.

Later tell her you found missing Andy Wastelander Refugees +1 Rep.

Usable Customizing Apperance Machine

Container Lockpicking 1 Cassette Tape Soldier's Note

Brig

later in game Original state.

Container Item Brig Master Key Use this key to open the cell door.

NPC The Prisoner Talk to him in depth, he has a lot to say.

Free the prisoner from the cell with Brig Master Key.

Corpse check it for exp. if you got skill First Aid 2-3 Perception 3

You will have a fully functional Brig when you find the real Brig Jailor when completing the Full House Mission. Hope Emerson will join you, recomended by Sheriff Daisy in Downtown Colorado Springs after you finish Cornered Rats Mission.

later in game After Rebuilding

NPC Hope Emerson

Here you will find people to arrest during your adventures in Colorado.

Desk near Hope Emerson Skill Book The Locksmith's Companion Permanently Lockpicking +1 for one character

Med Bay

later in game Original state.

Corpses Check all of them for exp. First Aid 1-4 take Item Subdermal Plating

Stairs lead down to an enclosed space. You'll come back here later in the game.

You will have a fully functional Med Bay when you find the real Medbay Doctor when completing the Full House Mission. Doc Parker is located in Downtown Colorado Springs in the Iron Thunder Arapaho Garage. Before he joins you, you will have to complete the Top Doc Mission he gives you.

later in game After Rebuilding

NPC Doc Parker he can heal you, he is merchant.

later in game Later ...

NPC Irv can Clone your character, he will come after Don't You be my Neighbor Mission

later in game After Denver

NPC V.I.C.I. will give you Investigative Eye Perk

Armory

later in game Original state.

Some traps and chests.

You will have a fully functional Armory when you find the real Armorer when completing the Full House Mission.

Inspector Delgado will join you after finishing Big trouble in Little Vegas Mission.

later in game After Rebuilding

NPC Inspector Delgado

Museum

later in game Original state.

Creepy Doll Radical Rachel Explosive Damage Bonus +5.0% for all Team.

Creepy Dolls are dolls that are creepy, but they also grant powerful party-wide bonuses. Simply collecting them will benefit you for the rest of the game.

Terminal Nerd Stuff 2-5

You will have a fully functional Museum when you recruit Curator, Junko Murayama she is located in Downtown Colorado Springs in Market Square near Museum entrance. Just go and ask her after you visit Garden of the Gods.

later in game After Rebuilding

NPC Junko Murayama Curator

Here you will find trophies that you have earned during your adventures in Colorado.

Another person for Museum is Quarex in Bizarre Interior, when you will be able ot finish his Quarex's Hellacious Journey Mission

Exit to Colorado

Exit to Downtown Colorado Springs

Mercenaries

Later in game

Mercenaries will appear in this place after some time in the game. And they'll stay here as long as you get along with them.

They will give you missions, when you complete them they will be with you, if you do them not according to their plan they will leave.

NPC Gary "Nacl" Wolfe

Mission Wolfe's Hunt Wolfe's Hunt Mission

Gary "NaCl" Wolfe, a merc who's had dealings with the Rangers In Arizona, has shown up at Ranger HQ and offered to pay us if we bring him the head of synth that's hiding in Downtown Colorado Springs. [Reward: $150]

Mission Step: Wolfe's Hunt Find and destroy the Synth hiding in Downtown Colorado Springs.

Wolfe shot up Colorado Springs trying to kill a synth, but it gave him the slip. These cowboy antics pissed off Sheriff Daisy, and she kicked out Wolfe out. He knows the synth is still somewhere downtown, and wants us to find it, kill it, and bring him its head.

Synth October-11 is in Museum in Downtown Colorado Springs

later in game When you return with Head of October-11

Wolfe was happy to take the synth head from us. He and his crew have joined the Rangers, and are offering to pay bounties for any additional synths we bring him.

Mission Completed: Wolfe's Hunt

Wolfe's Hunt Mission dilemma

Any action against Synths (killing first 3 Synths) in Colorado will have a negative impact on your relationship with Machine Commune in Denver. This is not significant, it does not block the path in the main story, and we will be able to avoid the consequences of our actions quite easily when assessing what we will face from the Machine Intelligence Tower (in Machine Commune in Denver).

The only significant problem we will have with completing Wolfe's Hunt Mission. While for killing the 3 remaining Synths (for the mission) we will be only negatively assessed, then killing the fourth (necessary to complete the mission) Tinker in Machine Commune will meet with hostility of robots in Machine Commune, which will make you have to kill them all.

Either you don't complete Wolfe's Hunt Mission and keep relatively good relations with Machine Commune
Or you'll have to kill everyone in Machine Commune, after you kill Tinker, for which you will get from Gary 'Nacl' Wolfe an interesting award Skill Book: Dick Markowitz's STEALTH SQUAD which gives Perk: +1 Combat Shooting, increasing Critical Chance to 50%.

later in game After Bizarre Interior

Give Item Long John's Head to Gary for reward. Long John is not on Gary list, but he will pay you.

later in game After Department of Energy Site

Give Item Dos-Teh-Seh's Head to Gary for reward.

later in game After Tellurium Mine

Give Item Earl's Head to Gary for reward.

Tom Redd and Isabelle Redd

Later in the game, Tom Reed and Isabelle Redd will visit your Ranger HQ base.

NPC Tom Redd

NPC Isabelle Redd

They stand at a distance from each other and tell a tangled story about someone having explosives on them and when they get close, the charges will explode. They ask for help.

You have to split your party and approach both of them at the same time.

This is obviously a trick and as soon as you approach them they start attacking you. Kill them both, your base team will help you.

NPC Hope Emerson

NPC Del Hackett

Later in game, Hope Emerson and Del Hackett will be arguing over the issue of the conflict between the Rangers and the Refugees.

Be on the side of Del Hacket ... when we make deal, we stick to it ... Wastelander Refugees +10 Rep.

Merchant Ananda Rabindranath will join you after finishing The Bizarre.

Slave Hunters

NPC La Perla

Mission Slaver's Bounty Slaver's Bounty Mission

A slaver named La Perla has asked us to find an escaped slave in exchange for acess to pre-war tech locked away in our base. [Reward: Access to vaults in Ranger HQ basement]

Mission Step: Slaver's Bounty Find the escaped slave, Hallie and trick her back into La Perla's hands.

La Perla said she tracked Hallie, an escaped slave, back to this area. She's given us a description: female, early 20s, dirty blonde hair, probably trying to conceal her identity.

Hallie was last seen heading towards Colorado Springs. We should start Downtown.

Access to Vaults in Ranger HQ

Mission Slave Hunters will give you access codes for Vaults in Ranger HQ.

The mission has no real negative consequences, but is morally debatable.

To get to Vaults in Ranger HQ you need two codes.

You will receive the first code to the first door for just agreeing to complete the mission. Already then you will have access to some of the inventory.
The second code, to open second door, you will get only after completing the mission. And only then you will then have access to the equipment in the second room.

How to finish Slave Hunters Mission.

Talk to La Perla
If you attack Slavers in this momemnt, you won't receive the any codes and misson will stop.
Agree to complete the mission and you will receive the first code.
Go open the first door in the Vault
Go to Downtown Colorado Springs to Pillory Square and find Hallie, and do one of the following:

Warn Hallie about the Slave Hunters
Lie to her and direct her to Ranger HQ

Go back to Ranger HQ and depending on what you've done before:

If you cheated on Hallie - you will get the second code, you can open the second door.
If you saved Hallie - you won't get the second code and the contract with the Slave Hunters will end sooner or later in the fight.

There is no way to save Hallie and get both codes at the same time. Do as you see fit, none of the decisions will be meaningful to the plot as a whole.

Go open First Vault Door

Mission Step: Slaver's Bounty Find the escaped slave, Hallie and trick her back into La Perla's hands.

We were able to open the vault with La Perla's code, but there's still another locked door.

Downtown Colorado Springs for Hallie

later in game After you lie to Hallie

NPC Slaver Trapper

Get second code as reward. Wastelander Refugees -10 Rep.

Mission Completed: Slaver's Bounty

La Perla left with the slave before we arrived, but one of her men stayed to fulfill her promise and gave us the code.

Vaults in Ranger HQ

Finish Slave Hunters Mission for access codes.

Fist Room

Item PDA Nerd Stuff +1, Chest Armor Tank Armor Armor +9 Helmet Tank Helmet Armor +6, Leg Armor Tank Helmet Armor +6

Second Room

Helmet Commandant's Helmet Critical Chance +15%, Armor: +6, Initiative +101%, Leg Armor Power Armor Legs Armor +11, Flamethrower Incinerator 103-151 Damage, Helmet Nuclear Knight's Helmet Armor +6, Resistances, Helmet Power Armor Helmet Armor +11, Item Laser Turrets x2,

Proton Axe, Power Gauntlet and some others.

For Disappeared - Radio Broadcast Mission

NPC Betsy

Mission Disappeared Disappeared Mission

A group of mothers, wives, and siblings of convicts who were sentenced to hard labor at the Patriarch's work camp want us to find out where their loved ones are being held. [Reward: $400, Nitro-Ray]

Mission Step: Disappeared Find Frank Pappas in Downtown Colorado Springs.

Frank Pappas was the marshal who delivered the women's loved ones to the work camp. He lives somewhere in downtown Colorado Springs. If anyone can give us the location of the work camp, it's him.

After Disappeared Mission

NPC Frank Pappas If you invite him to Sans Luxe Apartments, he will train new recruits here.

He will give you Marshal Training Perk Leadership Range +2m

After Denver, Aspen and Little Hell

After completing the mission in Aspen, you get a radio message that someone is waiting for you in Ranger HQ with information from Angela Deth. He is at Connie Zeng in the War Room.

NPC Connie Zeng Angela Deth Agent.

Immediately after you finish the conversation with Connie, an Scar Collestors attack on Ranger HQ takes place.

Mission Step: The Traitor Defeat the Scar Collectors attacking Ranger HQ.

Go outside the building and defend yourself, although the Ranger HQ team is doing very well on their own.

Poultron

What's interesting and accompanying the Scar Collectors attack is the awakening of your Cyborg Chickens.

If you had Cyborg Chickens five in your pen, they would merge into one in the "Poultron".

Companion Poultron is an AI-driven companion that will now be part of your party, without taking the place of other companions.

After the fight, go to Hoon Homestead to meet Angela Deth.

After Yuma Country - Ending

When you return to Ranger HQ from Yuma Country, no matter what version of the story you've chosen, some of the Rangers will be dissatisfied. You need to talk to your teammates and defeat those Rangers who oppose you.

You have the opportunity to re-form your Team before the showdown.

Mission Step: Downtown Showdown Retake control of Ranger HQ and find a way into Downtown.

Connie's intel has identified the key areas of RHQ we need to retake. Ultimately, we need access to the war room to open a back path into Colorado Springs, but it is locked down by security terminals in the garage, armory, and brig.
We cancelled the security alert in the garage.
We cancelled the security alert in the armory.
We cancelled the security alert in the brig
We've retaken the war room and opened the RHQ side of the tunnel to Downtown Colorado Springs.

Mission Step: Downtown Showdown Find the tunnel access point in Downtown.

We can't get our car into Colorado Springs via the streets. The war room terminal said the other end of the vehicle tunnel is located somewhere in Downtown. We'll need to find the terminal that opens it.

Go now on foot to Colorado Springs Downtown to the Museum.