One of Civ2's great mysteries

[Stefan Härtel]

I had a recent vanilla game where I dropped behind the Mongols for some reason. They nuked some random cities of mine that were neither very big (some of them were, but I had far bigger cities in my empire) nor had a very big concentration of military forces in them. I still have the savegames, maybe I can find something out.

[Cifer Almasy]

i just rember cheating the AI with nukes. it used to place it near my coast. like if you use the "create a unit" - option in the cheat-menu. that was strange.

[Six Thousand Year Old Man]

Originally posted by techumseh
Sorry to disagree Curt, but I'm quite certain the AI only nukes cities and will not nuke another AI except in the case mentioned above.

I have definitely seen AIs nuke each other in non-scenario, ToT games. It doesn't happen often, but it has happened.

I agree about units, though - the AI never seems to nuke units.

[willemvanoranje]

I think that the target value of a city is determined not only by the number of units in it, but also the ones around it; it's about how many units will be destroyed (and those adjacent to the city will get too).

And somehow city size seems to be involved...