What about nuclear arms?

[Green Giant]

Anybody have a clue how nuclear war is going to work in Civ 3? I didn't think the ones in Civ 2 were powerful enough and I can't picture anything like the planet busters.

[jerkwaterbox]

go home

[ixnay]

I believe Firaxis said that there will be ICBMs which can hit anything on the planet, as well as missles that can be launched from subs and the like. Other than that, we haven't heard much of anything else.

[Mongoloid Cow]

I'm not sure of this, but when you get 5 Integrated Defence thingies, you can build the SDI, which is a minor wonder. It would prevent nuclear weapons damaging your civilisation.

[KrazyHorse]

Wasn' there something about tac and strategic nukes being two separate things?

[Lemmy]

Originally posted by KrazyHorse
Wasn' there something about tac and strategic nukes being two separate things?

yes

I believe Firaxis said that there will be ICBMs which can hit anything on the planet, as well as missles that can be launched from subs and the like. Other than that, we haven't heard much of anything else.

[Provost Harrison]

Never hug someone with nuclear arms

[Nikolai]

[Sava]

Originally posted by Provost Harrison
Never hug someone with nuclear arms

Provost, I'm happy to see you AND in fact, that is a nuke in my pocket.

If I remember correctly, Firaxis said that nukes would completely destroy the tiles they hit and surrounding areas. So if you hit "Rome" with a nuke. Rome will no longer exist.

I figure after the comp gets nukes (if they survive that long), I'm going to name cities as follows. "I DARE YOU" "I DOUBLE DARE YOU" "YOU CAN"T HIT ME" "NYAH NYAH"

For the expansion pack, it would be cool if we could assign BMP's or GIF's to be city names. Then I would post targets on the AI's cities.

[Skanky Burns]

That would be funny I could imagine a game where you have discovered nukes first (or built the SDI first) and then stockpile nukes until you have one for each and every city not owned by you...

Then, in one hugh attack, send a nuke out to each city, and obliterate them!!!
Make their citizens

Muwahahaha

[Roman]

Right, two types of nukes:
ICBM and tactical

and a NMD minor wonder to defend against them.

[Roman]

Originally posted by jerkwaterbox
go home

Hmm, perhaps you could be more forthcoming to newbies...

[Roman]

Originally posted by Skanky Burns
That would be funny I could imagine a game where you have discovered nukes first (or built the SDI first) and then stockpile nukes until you have one for each and every city not owned by you...

...and then the enemy builds the NMD minor wonder.

[Jason Beaudoin]

Does anyone know whether it will be considered an "atrocity" if either strategic or tactical nukes are used?

[Patriqvium]

Originally posted by Jason Beaudoin
Does anyone know whether it will be considered an "atrocity" if either strategic or tactical nukes are used?

I would figure out that it won't at least increase your reputation.