Missle Defense: a replacment for SDI that may actually work

[Kevin Ar18]

Originally posted by Nemo

we do? where is this...i have been wanting, yearning, for MAD confirmation from firaxis.
please say what article this was found in.


actually the term&concept "star war's" has been around for decades due to the cold war. It goes back AT LEAST to the early Regan era.

Yeah, they didn't flat out say it but they sure hinted at it so that it's either MAD or something that'll be improved over the current nuclear model. Whatever it is, they said nuclear missiles will play a greater role in the game or whatnot (there was a bit more to it, but I don't remember exactly). I can only assume it's MAD, what else could it be?

Some ideas
Anyways, I was thinking, you could build a certain number of missiles (for this defense system) in your cities and then for each of these missles you have, they have a pretty good chance of hitting an ICBM in route.

In order to have an effective system you would of course have to put large numbers in your Civ cities (or silos?). Missiles in one city would not just defend that city. Since the missles go into space to intercept, then they could protect a wide area of your Civ. In addition there would have to be some kind of detection system (radar or in space). For complexity reasons I suspect the detection system can be left out. But then again the idea of radar does sound kind of interesting for Civ3, but that's another thread and another discussion.


P.S. Some of the earlier missile defenses blew up infront of the path of the ICBM - this method didn't work too well. The missile defense that I'm speaking of as listed in this article uses a different method where the rocket just flies smack into the ICBM causing it to blow up.

[Urban Ranger]

Since both SDI and MD are fictitious, why change from one to another and get embroiled in needless debates at the same time?

I say nay.