I would think just launching a MiniNuke would be more reliable than crashing a Vertibird full of mininukes into something. Or JuryRigging some sort of megamininuke?
Ah but you see it is such an unexpected tactic that it'd be guaranteed to succeed! Where as other wise the Brothers would be expecting heavy weapons to be launch from in front of them not above from the skys
Yeah. Lots of Scribes and Knights. I just remember you could encounter them in a lot of places and their idea was to setup control over most of the Commonwealth anyways. Might be interesting just to see if any rough numbers could be derived from say... figuring out how many Vertibirds can be carried... or examining other places on the airship and counting chairs or something lol. Then again I'm sure you could count the beds in the living quarters and multiply by three or four for workshifts and I bet it would still be a massively small number or undercount though.
I'd personally put it at least equivalent to the Mojave Chapter in strength which
Brotherhood of Steel mission holotape
+6 Dead Paladins from Holotapes
+3 Paladins from Battle of Hoover Dam
+4 Rogue Paladins from Veronica quest
+4 Paladins Scripted Patrol
+6-8ish Paladins or Knights in bunker
+Veronica and Elder (Not Paladins but I'm throwing them in to be fair since they're fighters)
27-25 BOS members prior to battle at Helios where they had double numbers which would put their numbers at 50-54 Strong not including Scribes or Civilians.
It'd be reasonable fair to say that the East Coast expedition which recruits outsiders would have a larger force and is led by someone from the Maxson lineage. But I can't see any evidence to support an argument of more than double Power Armored Knights/Paladins (100-108) and this is being
very generous because it is scaling from the Mojave Chapter and not counting the actual numbers on the Prydwen ship.