Leveling Hills/Mountains with Nukes

[Turrosh Mak]

In my current game, I noticed that a French city nuked by the Romans had a hill turn into desert. I don't know how many nukes it took to accomplish this. I've had 2 nukes hit Berlin and none of the hills in the blast radius have suffered the same fate.

Does anyone know how many nukes it takes or what chance nukes have of flatting a mountain/hill, and what terrain they change into: mountain/hill/(plain?)/desert?

[PLATO]

This is an interesting and important question. I was not even aware of this ability until I saw it in another thread. I have several times come across an island of all mountains with resorces I wanted and had no idea what to do with them.

[jdd2007]

Are you sure this happened? Do you have a save?

[GePap]

I have never seen hills or mountains affected by nukes, Recently, as revenge, I nuked a series of American cities, several of which had hills and mountains in the radius of the blast: while grasslands and plains did change, hills and mountains remained the same.

[Turk Man]

that cool

[Turrosh Mak]

Turn before Hill nuked to desert

I have uploaded the turn just before the Romans nuke the French town of Marseilles. I have run this turn several times by shift-enter with repeatable results. The Romans always nuke the same 3 towns (Lyons, Marseilles, Cherbourg) and the hill below Marseilles turns to desert every time.

I am playing Civ3 v1.29f (NOT PTW).

http://apolyton.net/upload/files/Tur...mans1560AD.SAV

[Nym]

Re: Turn before Hill nuked to desert

Originally posted by Turrosh Mak
I have uploaded the turn just before the Romans nuke the French town of Marseilles. I have run this turn several times by shift-enter with repeatable results. The Romans always nuke the same 3 towns (Lyons, Marseilles, Cherbourg) and the hill below Marseilles turns to desert every time.

Interesting that it happens every time with only one nuke in this game and never in other games. I wonder what can explain this. Do Romans have stronger nukes?

[Turrosh Mak]

One possibility

The hill that "disappeared" contained coal in 1050 but didn't in 1560 just before the nuke hit . Is it possible that these resource squares are vulnerable when a resource isnt there?

[PLATO]

Where is someone from Firaxis when you need them? This could promote some interesting changes in some games I have played. I would like to know the possibilities before I spend my time endlessly nuking some forlorn mountain.

[LordVipper]

Where is someone from Firaxis when you need them? This could promote some interesting changes in some games I have played. I would like to know the possibilities before I spend my time endlessly nuking some forlorn mountain


why not,your goverment wants to!
sorry,only joking i couldnt help it!

[vmxa1]

Well I wish they have let us have terraforming engineers to level mountains. Just make it take some time.

[PLATO]

Originally posted by vmxa1
Well I wish they have let us have terraforming engineers to level mountains. Just make it take some time.

Terraforming Engineers would be fantastic! It would change the way the game was played.

[Nym]

Originally posted by PLATO


Terraforming Engineers would be fantastic! It would change the way the game was played.

Yes, it is the unit that often miss me.

[bongo]

The problem with the terraforming- capability of the civ2 engineers was that given enough time every square of the map would end up as grassland or hills.

[Harovan]

to Civ2-style terraforming. I'm happy it's gone.