Started playing again

[miloII]

I have not played smac for well over a year. Coming back to it I am enjoying in more than Civ3.
I had given the original to my Father( hoping to get him hooked on strategy gaming) no luck getting him play much other than bewjeweled....lol
I must have given the manual to him, I can't remember how to destroy a captured city( that I know I can't hold)
Thanks in advance...

[Chowlett]

I seem to recall (never done it myself) that you place a military unit in the base, and then it's under the right-click menu for that unit. Remember, however, that it's an atrocity unless the charter is repealed, and if performed against another faction's citizens they will hate you forever.

[big_canuk]

Therefore, the prefered method is to starve to base down to size 1, by switching the whole population to specialists, and then to rush a CP. (This does not work at the lowest difficulty levels)

Or give the city to a submissive pactmate.

bc

[Mongoose]

Shortcut command is B for an active unit in a base. The unit must have at least 1/3 of a movement point remaining to perform the obliterate function.

Be wary of using ships for this in a land base. The ship dies, having no sea in which to be. If a seabase, unless you have available seagoing transport capacity in the base, any ground units will drown upon obliteration.

[MariOne]

It looks like Mongoose has experimented a lot with obliterations, to know these specific cases by heart!

I wonder... what about using a Jet? What about its fuel status thereafter?

BTW, just don't forget to sell the facilities!

[Mongoose]

I've been known to obliterate a base or ten, yes.

Never did it with a jet, I don't know. I think it would use one MP.

[CEO Aaron]

Ah, just use PBs. It will wipe our several adjacent bases, terraforming and all, leaving only the fresh scent of pine!

[BustaMike]

Obliteration is fun. It's funny that the price for mass genecide is a few thousand years of sanctions.

[Sardaukar]

Hi im new here..

Considering what PB's do, it should be more than that.

Yang gets me everytime..

[Mr. President]

I never seem to get nuked, and I often want to as a pretext for nuking other people.

[CEO Aaron]

Have you been reading the papers lately? Pretexts are starting to look pretty thin.

As an aside I can never recall ever being targetted by an enemy PB before I had already nuked them. I don't think the AI even considers building PBs unless the Chater's been revoked, to say nothing of launching them. On the other hand, I have used probes to sabotage the construction of enemy PBs, or the silos themselves, so who's to say whether the enemy might have used them or not.

[Petek]

It's been a year or two since I've been nuked. However, IIRC both Yang and Miriam have launched PBs against me with the Charter still in place. I hadn't nuked anyone, didn't even have any PBs.

[Method]

really? i've never seen the AI PB with the charter in place

[Mongoose]

Originally posted by TKG
really? i've never seen the AI PB with the charter in place

I have. Two nights ago, Yang nuked the base with the Hunter, a mere two turns after I took it from him. Charter in place. I had never comitted an atrocity. Five turns later, I got elected Supreme Leader and Yang defied the Council.

[Cybergod]

I had Deidre nuke a sea-base I took from her couple of turns after I conquered it - see, hippies kill their own people!