It does have more firepower. But he wuld've been surrnounded and when he starts shooting someone wuld shoot him and he wuld die.
Surrounded by who? 10th-level crafters? "Roleplay" builds with no combat skills? What you expected? To scare shit outta guy so he will give up and cry for mercy? Please.
Here is my main character, I spend most of my ingame time logged on it. It's totally lame in combat, I've been smashed and melted so many times, but I never thought about making whine thread, beacuse "mah spear was pwn3d by laz0r". Insted I've made a PvP ape with 249 HP and high BG skill,
as everyone else can do. Guess what - I even roleplayed a bandit few times with this ape.
I'm afraid you are missing something here. It's not Fallout in single player, and you are not The Chosen One, immortal and invulnerable killing machine, blessed palladin on his holy mission.