imaloony8.0

The quest "Those!" is probably too tough for you at the start. You probably are still just stuck with a pistol, a baseball bat, and your BB gun. Go to Megaton and take the quest from Moira Brown, "The Wilderness Survival Guide". Now, choose the Radiation task. Go down to the nuke in the middle of the city, and drink the water by it until you have 600 rads and go back to Moira brown to get some meds and a perk that regenerates limbs if you have high radiation. Now, pick the food task. Go to the Super Duper Mart. Here's where you'll find the good stuff: If you're lucky, you'll find a Combat Shotgun, an Assault rifle, and maybe even a 10mm Sub Machine Gun on some raiders you need to kill. Hot key those weapons and then search the store and find a couple laser pistols and weapons. The Super Duper Mart has a LOT of good stuff if you look around enough, including a mini nuke, a stash of nuka-cola and nuka-cola quantum, some more weapons, a ton of ammo, and a lot of food and medicine, so take your time exploring here.

Get a bunch of 5.56 mm rounds for your assault rifle, shotgun shells for you Combat Shotgun, 10mm rounds for you machine gun, and try to find a hunting rifle and some .32 caliber rounds. Those will be your primary weapons early on, and if you can get Moira to repair them or get a high repair skill yourself (Which I HIGHLY recommend) you'll have no problem knocking the quests down. When you finally do go after the fire ants, I suggest using your assault rifle or sub machine gun at medium range. DO NOT let them get close, or your bum will be roasted faster than you can say "BBQ". The Hunting Rifle works well on them too.

Hope this helps.