PB v Nuke

[Wiglaf]

What's better - the nuke from civ2 or the planet buster? One wipes out a base, one leaves it available for capture. One needs a vote to be effectively used, one doesn't. Is there any clear winner?
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[Qualicide]

i like big stuff that blows things up, ill go with PBs

if you capture the city, you have to clean up that stupid 5 sqares of pollution

Hitting a city with 5 nukes, and having it still standing is demoralizing

if you blow it up, what is left to resist?

[Wiglaf]

quote: Originally posted by Qualicide on 12-04-2000 07:06 PM if you capture the city, you have to clean up that stupid 5 sqares of pollution

Yeah, pollution is a good point - but PB's cause the same thing, except ten times worse I guess if you repeal the charter planet busters make sense eco-damage wise, but I think they harm chrion anyway.
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[Christantine The Great]

You need a vote to use one? I used one without voting (Democratic).

[Wiglaf]

quote: Originally posted by Christantine The Great on 12-04-2000 09:07 PM You need a vote to use one? I used one without voting (Democratic).

In AC, you need the vote big time or else everyone declares war on you. Unless of course Democracy gets you out of this...does it?

[Wiglaf]

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[Wiglaf]

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[Jasonian]

Democracy most certainly does NOT get you out of the penatly!

Anyway... PBs are a lot better, because you can use them to smite a heavily defended base, cut off a narrow passage by blowing a hole in it, or getting rid of an otherwise inaccessable base. Plus that really big explosion is SOOO satisfying to watch.

[Wiglaf]

Yeah, I guess the way it alters land can be quite helpful . But when it wipes out a base can that be a bad thing?

[Christantine The Great]

It's strange that a PB will wipe out a city but leave the surrounding improvements alone.

[Wiglaf]

Well, that is if it doesn't turn the improvements into an island .