Terraforming with Nukes

[Apolex]

Late in the game needing a boost in production, I found myself contemplating using nukes in a most unconventional way. I had a bunch of cities surrounded by rabbit-food (grasslands) giving piss-poor production. I also had a few tactical nukes lying around and about 100 workers who were mainly just sitting around in cities.

So I made sure everyone was wearing their blast glasses and detonated about 4 nukes in grassland areas around my cities, making sure none of the cities actually felt the effects of the blasts. In about 2 turns, all the pollution had dutifully been cleaned up by my workers, and I had terraformed lots of squares into more productive land.

I don't know if this has been talked about in the Strat. forum (sorry I don't read it). Anybody else try this?

-Apolex

[Space05us]

sounds like a good plan, I'll have to try that.
edit: but due to my lack of experience with nukes i must ask; what do nukes do to forests, jungles, mountains, deserts, and hills (if I missed something just tell me)

[ChaotikVisions]

Nukes will take everything down 1 level. Grasslands to plains, plains to desert, desert nothing though. As for what it does to forests, it just destroys the forest, the tile of plains or grasslands underneath is unnefected. Once had an idea that if you knew where and when you were gonna be nuked, building forests all around could help lessen the effects.

[alva]

Originally posted by ChaotikVisions
Nukes will take everything down 1 level. Grasslands to plains, plains to desert, desert nothing though. As for what it does to forests, it just destroys the forest, the tile of plains or grasslands underneath is unnefected. Once had an idea that if you knew where and when you were gonna be nuked, building forests all around could help lessen the effects.

So forest do have a usefull function afterall

i don't think i have ever used or saw one used in of my games!!

[notyoueither]

This is too bizarre.

[Christantine The Great]

It sounds like some sort of 1950s infomercial about the wonder and glory of nuclear power.

[Hagbart]

Is it then possible to remove jungle with nukes, and leave the ground underneath unaffected?
It seems like a fast way to get rid of jungle, but I guess at the time nukes are available there wont be much jungle back needed to be cleared.

[Harovan]

There's a "Nuke the river" strategy for score milkers. Makes high-food producing flood plains. Nothing for me, though.

[Deathwalker]

THis would be a good idea for building cities in the jungle. Just nuke the desired location adnn then build your city

[Panzer]

Hmmm, interesting use for nukes. No more smelly rainforests! Just drop an nuke and hey presto! Instead fertile glow-in-the-dark grasslands! Just think of the uses!

[dunk]

The title of this thread made me laugh.

[Mannamagnus]

It would be useful if nukes became available with mysticism. Otherwise it's just too late.

[Zealot]

Originally posted by Panzer
Hmmm, interesting use for nukes. No more smelly rainforests! Just drop an nuke and hey presto! Instead fertile glow-in-the-dark grasslands! Just think of the uses!

Firaxis will most certainly "fix" it somehow...

[Christantine The Great]

Why's that? You still have to clean the pollution and if there was an enemy city there it would do the same thing.

[Moonsinger]

What about the ice land, hill, and mountain? If you nuke them, what do they turn into?