Who uses nukes?

[PLATO]

Originally posted by SalvationArmy
3/ Democratic modern war (invasion). If you want to go to war (and seize an enemy's land) in a big way, but you're democratic, nukes can be the key even against a very large civ. Build a large stockpile of ICBMs (ideally one per enemy town, plus a few reserves). Nuke all enemy towns, and seize some straight away with paratroops. Immediately buy airports in the captured towns and airlift in armour to the heart of their country. With most of the enemy forces reduced to ash, you can win a big war fast without your population having too much time to get war-weary. Takes a lot of preparation and money, but don't all big wars ? The prep work can be done whilst democratic and at peace, so it's not too much of a strain gearing up, and much less disruptive than switching to communism for the duration. (Not to mention more fun !). Your reputation might suffer a bi, though

I actually did this once also. Was playing huge map continents. America had a medium cntinent to themselves from the beginning. The other two continents were involved in several world wars over time and the Americans pretty much stayed out of it. As a result they grew in strength until they became a threat to my empire. It took a ton of time and money, but finally I was ready. I launched a nuclear attack on every city they had and immediately struck with transport loads of marines that I had moved into their territorial waters the turn before. Their defenses were weakened enough by the nuke attack that I was able to take all their coastal cities. The next turn another round of nukes against their remaining cities, moved the armour into port and it was pretty much over. Within three turns after this my armour had taken the last of their cities.

[Panag]

hi ,

, there seems to be a difference on other civs declaring war when you nuke enemies in your own territory , ......

have a nice day

[G'Kar]

Bamspeedy's AI attitudes guide states that when you nuke someone the victim adds +32 attitude points (which is a ton) ; other civs add +16 points. These penalties seem to be permanent. So AIs don't automatically declare war when you nuke someone, but if their attitude towards you is marginal the nuke can push them over the edge.

[Kuciwalker]

If you nuke someone multiple times, it's pretty much irreperable.

[Panag]

Originally posted by skywalker
If you nuke someone multiple times, it's pretty much irreperable.

hi ,

yes and no ,

one example ; china and india are in arms race with icbm's , russia also but smaller scale , a couple nuke have been dropped and after 50 years the pollution is cleaned up , all of a sudden the good old US of A has enough of this and launches a pre emptive strike on all the cities with nukes from india after they have launched two on china , mountains become hills ( ) etc , ...... 10 civ's had each at least 10 icbm's , no one declared war on me , after launching 25 icbm's and a few tacticals , .......

have a nice day

[Paddy]

nukes, are horrendous...

so I had a city full of workers for the clean up of the next nuke strike... the last was such a pig sty, and well that was the city that took the next nuke,,,... my bad.

[GePap]

You can sue nukes to cut of the enemy capital from all roads, and thus end trade between two civs..so if civX is providng your opponent with key materials, and you don't wish to get involved in a dispute with them, and they won;t agree to an embargo, nuke the enemy capital. of course, if it is a coastal capital, you have to add ships to blockade by sea as well.

[Panag]

Originally posted by GePap
You can sue nukes to cut of the enemy capital from all roads, and thus end trade between two civs..so if civX is providng your opponent with key materials, and you don't wish to get involved in a dispute with them, and they won;t agree to an embargo, nuke the enemy capital. of course, if it is a coastal capital, you have to add ships to blockade by sea as well.

hi ,

yes and no , nuking a capital tends to get the other civs dragged in against you faster , .....

have a nice day

[Paddy]

Originally posted by panag


hi ,

yes and no , nuking a capital tends to get the other civs dragged in against you faster , .....

have a nice day

ha, that would be right... the bastards

[GePap]

Perhaps cause you are interupting their valuable trade deals?

[ChaotikVisions]

Nuking is fun to do towards the end. I usually use mine out of spite more then a tactical use. I have used them once for a quick land grab though. Allied with America with a rop I set my troops up just right so I could nuke and attack all their cities simultaneously. It was great, I lost an ally but got all his land. Had to do it because the Japanese(the other super-power) were busy annexing one of their neighbors.

[Paddy]

Sounds like a great plan.

Did you get to clean the joint up as well?

[Cort Haus]

Originally posted by johncmcleod
I think if you use a nuke every civ not already at war with the victim will declare war on you.

Hmm. All declaring war against a nuke-chucking rival. Now there's an anti-WMD coalition.

I use a tactical nuke once on Emperor against a large MA stack that suddenly appeared. Got rid of the stack nicely, but there was much collateral damage.

[Paddy]

Yeah, all that bloody mess to clean up right.... but stops an attack good.

[Panag]

Originally posted by GePap
Perhaps cause you are interupting their valuable trade deals?

hi ,

no idea , .......


actually no , cause sometimes there are still roads for trade , .....

, polluted roads should not allow trade


if you nuke a city with a wonder or capital you just get war declared faster on you , ......

have a nuking day