Check out these screens of a nuked japanese city

[Sava]

Originally posted by Rakki
what's next ? I'm not allowed to pretend to smash a toy aeroplane into the side of a tower ?

touche...

people are way too touchy... in response, Rakki, next time just say, "SHHHAAADDDDUPPP!!!

[Lorizael]

Originally posted by cyril25376
Thx:. Does anybody know how many improvements are destroyed. "Only" 6 Pop-points are killed ?

Think about it... if Tac nukes are a constant 6... then size 6 cities and under are just dead. Who knows (the guys with the game of course) what ICBMs do.

[Andrew_Jay]

Not that I'm totally outraged, just the irony and I guess poor choice of the whole thing.
Why not nuke the Babylonians for the example? They're nuclear warfare neutral
But at least the city itself wasn't actually Hiroshima or Nagasaki, now THAT would be in bad taste.

[d_dudy]

hadn't seen those pics before, cool!

can't believe used a pic with the japanese......

[Imran Siddiqui]

But at least the city itself wasn't actually Hiroshima or Nagasaki, now THAT would be in bad taste.

No, they left that for me .

[Ironwood]

I probably just haven't been watching the screenshots as closely as most others have, but I think this is the first time I've seen the entirity of a randomly generated map (in the minimap). Nukes aside (of corse they chose the Japanese... just to piss guys like you off, Andrew_Jay ), I like the shapes of the continents produced by the random maker. They just look nice and organic (or is that Geologic?).

[cassembler]

Was there no pollution as a result???

[korn469]

SuiteSisterMary

It's a tac nuke, not a city buster.
People think nukes are these magical, mystical disintigration devices. They're just really big bombs.

ahhh you too know about the fas nuke site...it's one of my favorites!

think about it this way, one tank on the screen probably represents at least a company of tanks if not a bridage (possibly even a division) and a modern tank has a shield cost of 120 shields...a tactical nuke cost 300 shields, so its not like it is a single nuclear artillary shell (some of which has a yield of 40 kt)

i would say that the tactical nuke in the game is probably reprsentative of a nuclear barrage from some like the W-68 warhead

40 - 50 Kt

Airburst or contact

Manufactured 6/70 - 6/75; retired 9/77 - 1991; 5250 produced

Poseidon Mk-3 RV warhead, each missile carried 10 RVs; aging problems with explosive required complete rebuilding of stockpile 11/78-83 (3200 rebuilt, others retired); largest production run of any U.S. warhead

so a tactical nuclear weapons probably falls in the range of something between a 400kt strike (10 warheads x 40kt) to a 1.5mt strike (30 warheads x 50kt)

an ICBM probably falls in the range of a 1mt to a 20mt strike

and here is some perspective

*the bomb dropped on hiroshima had a yield of between 15-16kt