Nukes

[manofthehour]

One feature that I hope fraxis used is an auto launch for nukes. This would work so that you can aim a nuke at another country and if they use a nuklear strike against you your nukes would lanch before it was even your turn. This would also serve as a deterent becase you would not want to launch your nukes if you knew there were no ways around the consiquences.

[Darkknight]

This is excactly what was in CTP2. I only ever saw it in use in the deatente scenario. It would be good though in a game that you actually keep playing up to the modern age

[manofthehour]

It would be nice if you and some allies could actually cordinate a nuclear strike also.

[Darkknight]

Yeah I heard somewhere that they were going to improve the military diplomacy so you can actually say you bombard from the south and I'll attack from the north.

[Inverse Icarus]

gah.

mutual destruction again.

i just saw Pearl Harbor, great movie for those who haven't.

in it a Japanese officer is talking to a general (shogun) and says:

"The American fleet has been utterly crippled, congratulations general, you are truly a brilliant man"

to which the general replies:

"A brilliant man would have found a way not to fight a war"

[Russian King]

I wish you could also target units with nukes, and so that units can shake the nukes off by changing profiles in cities.

[Kevin Ar18]

You should be able to target an empty tile on the map as well.

[java4me]

Maybe you could have many nukes waiting in something called a missle silo, and then you would aim it at some city or piece of land. Then, there would be auto launch, if that country attacks you or you good click something that would launch all your nukes at once!!!

Just some ideas, but that would make it more intersting. I can't wait until FIRAXIS tells us how the nuke system will work!!!

[Inverse Icarus]

whats wrong with nukes being units?

im not a CTP / SMAC junkie :-/

[imgod2u]

Pearl Harbor, that movie was so anti-Japanese. And it was the "Admiral" btw. All in all, it was a pretty good movie......despite Ben Afflect. That guy's such a queer.
Anyway, back to the nuke thing. I think that you'd first need to develope some kind of missle warning system before being able to have auto-launch. Also, you'd need to develope long-range ballistics (the first nuclear bombs had to be delivered via bombers).

[BeBMan]

I wish you could also target units with nukes, and so that units can shake the nukes off by changing profiles in cities.

and:

You should be able to target an empty tile on the map as well.

I think this shoul only be possible for tactical nuclear weapons, or?
I mean, nobody in the real world would use an ICBM to wipe out enemy units, or to attack an empty area...

[Gangerolf]

Yeah. It should be at least two different kinds of nuclear weapons:

1) "Hiroshima bomb" - dropped off bombers and having a limited range.

2) Intercontinental nukes.

[Inverse Icarus]

im not a CTP junkie, is the whole subs-carrying-nukes thing out?

[Kevin Ar18]

Yes you would want to target empty space many times.

The reason being a nuke could get two closeby cities in one shot or kill more stuff in one shot.

[manofthehour]

Mabey that could be a new technology or wonder. The ability to find out wither or not a nuke had been launched at you and than respond. As for the nukes with the bombers you could auto order you bombers to launch there nukes.

Also for diplomacy I think you should be able to make a pact with 4 or more civs saying, if anyone one uses Nukes we will all declear war.