nuclear war

[Addled Platypus]

Who remembers the old sound.wav from Civ2?


I miss it

[woody]

Yeah, I much preferred the nuke sounds (and even the graphics) in Civ2 and even Civ1. They really wimped out on the Civ3 nukes.

[Last Conformist]

I've fought exactly one nuclear war ever in CivIII, and that was for the express purpose of seeing the nuke graphics (which I personally prefer to the CivII ones).

My games are usually over 'fore the AI gets any nuclear arsenals.

[Arnelos]

Originally posted by Last Conformist
My games are usually over 'fore the AI gets any nuclear arsenals.

In epic games, this is true. However, I've played a number of Future Era Start games with the AI where I have space race, diplomatic, cultural, and wonder victories all disabled (can only win by conquest or domination). I like drawing such maps to be very rough... a mostly desert map, a mostly tundra map, a mostly jungle map, a most hills/mountains/volcanoes map, etc. It's a lot of fun.

[Solomwi]

Hannibal went psycho on me one game, PTW. I had made peace after taking everything I wanted from Carthage, including Carthage itself, but still had active MPP's with Japan and the Ottomans. Carthage attacks the Ottomans, pulling me back into the war, then launches eight ICBMs at Oakland and Bayt Ras, two of my minor resource towns (six interceptred by SMD). Persia, Japan and the Ottomans unleash on Hannibal, literally bombing every one of his cities to size one or two and killing most of his units. By the time it was my turn, I was the only world power with nukes and had suffered only minor losses. I found this sentence in my game history:

"The Ottomans show particular targeting ineptitude, continuing to launch missiles at Leptis Magna after it had already been reduced to a primitive village with no defenses."

I had forgotten about it, but they made sure to launch every ICBM they had, even though there was no more possible damage to be done.

[Plotinus]

Originally posted by Blademun
Hahaha, Its a good thing Arnelios is american and not russian... >.> <.<

Only if *you* are American yourself!

[woody]

I can remember playing a Civ1 game into the late, late hours of the night. It was very quiet, and I was concentrating hard on the game. Suddenly, I hear the loud "boom" of a nuclear bomb going off in my capital. One of the races suddenly declared war on me by laying waste to my civilization. Scared the crap out of me!

I miss that.

[Arnelos]

Originally posted by Plotinus
Only if *you* are American yourself!

You're safe. The Anglo-American Alliance has been relatively solid for the better part of a century.

[Arnelos]

Originally posted by woody
I can remember playing a Civ1 game into the late, late hours of the night. It was very quiet, and I was concentrating hard on the game. Suddenly, I hear the loud "boom" of a nuclear bomb going off in my capital. One of the races suddenly declared war on me by laying waste to my civilization. Scared the crap out of me!

I miss that.

I don't.

I miss Civ1, but that's something I don't miss.