Pollution question

[ramses II.]

If you nuke enemy cities, do the appearing skulls count for global warming? In my opinion they don't. But if you conquer these cities ...
I had games where I nuked 10 and more enemy cities, but i didn't take them. No global warming effect.
What's the opinion of the experts?

[Traianvs]

i'm no expert (hell, deity is really hard for me ) but i think you are right, it's usually my howitzers that kill enemy stacks and not nukes, but after i take the city, the AI nukes it and they take a few cities back, but once i reconquer those nuked cities - poof, serious global warming

[Caesar the Great]

actually, yesterday i was playing the ww2 scenario, as the axis i nuked at least a dozen cities, i got the pollution warning "global temperatures rising" but then i beat it so i never got to see wether something was going to happen... but it definitely does count towards the total pollution.. although if the AI nukes something i don't think that counts

[debeest]

If the AI nukes your city, the skulls certainly count.

Haven't checked, but I think every skull on the board counts. Makes it tough when you can't really send your engineers in to clean up in enemy territory.

[Xin Yu]

AI only nuke cities so if you circle your cities with units or airbases (8 squares per city) then you don't get nuked. Also an empty city doesn't get nuked.

[Caesar the Great]

but humans can nuke empty cities right?

[Xin Yu]

a message will tell you that the nuke cannot capture the empty city.