[@Doc Doctor] Evidentially you've never been hit by a raider armed with a fatman in Fallout 4. This ain't new vegas where your typical raider is just some roman cosplayer with chucking spears and hitting you with lawnmower blades, and their weapons only seem primitive when you're a power armored laser weapon toting badass from the vault. And even than, fatman to the face. And if anything, Raiders are way more organized in between Fallout 3 and 4 which is what really makes them a threat. Every gang and raider with more than 2 Intelligence in their special go the way of Caesar, and while the guy was a megalomaniac with a tumor he did still manage to become a legitimate threat despite of it. Hell even when the Brotherhood came to the Commonwealth in Fallout 4, it wasn't unusual that their Vertibirds get shot down by small guns. Not even rocket launches or the aforementioned Fatman, just a bunch of raiders with semi-automatics taking down the only airforce in the wasteland. Frankly if you're implying that Raiders can't be a threat, you've either played fallout in very easy modes, or you intend to make your character so OP that nothing short of death claws and sentry bots poses any real threat to you.