What was the biggest nuclear war you've ever been in?

[johncmcleod]

What was the biggest nuclear war you've ever been in? What was the world like afterwards? And who won? Screenshots would be nice. The only times I have ever nuked another nation is when I had nukes and they didn't. I hate global warming, and nukes cause a ton of that. I've always been to scared to war with another country with nukes.

[Trifna]

I guess it's when I mass produced nukes... my goal? RAZING. China and France had big and ancient cities next to me, with strong cultural influence. I also wanted an important island that I possessed half to become only mine.

So, me the machiavelic greek, ICBMed and nuked many, and sent tanks to put raze the cities. Results? All capitals were nuked, most important cities, I got my island, etc.


I was bored of the game and wanted to see what would be the result.

[Aramis]

Only involved in 1 nuclear war. I dropped 12 ICBMs and several tactical nukes (from nuc subs) on the Iroquois in one turn. I targetted their capital, and certain resources (to wreck roads&rails). Result: Their capital was reduced back to a town (pop:1), and they lost use of the targetted resources (oil&uranium). They launched their 3 ICBMs at me, targetting insignificant cities (????). Result? I'll never know--the game crashed.

Haven't reached the point where nuc war is possible in any other game since.

[Lucarse]

I had a Nuke war recently which had a strange side effect.

(this was PTW to) I was launching an assualt on Korea they had only ROP treaties and no nukes as they did not have uranium, and could not trade it (by luck i had 90% of the worlds uranium stocks).

They had a big military so for my invasion to be effective i nuked all their key cites (about 18 of them) and rolled my armour in getting 4 cites in the first go.

The moment the first nuke fell Rome declared war on me! even though they did not have an MPP with korea.

They had a shed load of nukes and even with integrated defence they got quite a few through and really stuffed my war effort, i had to pull out of korea to face Rome's considerable military.

(Late Game Warlord) Has any body seen this happen?

[Jamski]

Every time I've used nukes all the Civs in the world have declared war on me. Even ones with MPP with me. That can hurt if they're tooled up too.

-Jam

[Lucarse]

Ooooh yeah, i was cleaning up pollution for the next 10 years.

They also went out for some naval units (i had them massed together) i have never seen the AI do this before.

[pedrojedi]

The AI hates nuclear wars; good to me. I hate them as well!

[Verto]

I've tried to use nukes on a small scale, ie just taking out a large city or army, but it seems impossible to do just that. Everytime I launch a nuke, the entire world turns against me. So, I've found it necessary to build around 15 nukes. That way, when the world declares war on me, I can take out their key cities and prevent an onslaught.

[Killazer]

im in a nuke war now and it isnt going to be pretty. We are each on a very large continent to our own and we have dozens of ICBMs each.

[pedrojedi]

That must hurt.

[BigDork]

Hi everybody...

Attached is a screenshot from my AU204 game. I was in a close race with France to see who would blast off into space first. It came down to the wire but in the end I won. What happened below is what I would have done if I wasn't able to pull it off. Don't you love all the ooze?

BigD

[pedrojedi]

I can feel the heat. Nuclear summer season coming!

[Aramis]

In my only nuke war game (briefly described above), civs I had an MPP with did not declare war on me, but joined me after my (surprise) first strike against the Iroquois, the common foe. Rome, the only civ w/out an MPP w/either side, declared war against me. When the Iroquois struck me back, Rome then declared war on them as well. That, sigh, is when the game crashed.

[pedrojedi]

Usually when my game crashes, I try doing something different with a reload to try to avoid the crash and continue the game. People here seem to declare the game over. Is it just some people, or there's a lot of people who declares the game's over when the program crashes?

[Mad Bomber]

Ive fought a few too many nuc wars, seems like any game I start ends in at least a limited nuc exchange. Thank god for the SDI SW!

My favorite game was when I was racing India to Alpha Centauri. It was literally neck and neck, then I nuked Delhi, signed a ROP with the Iroqouis, and razed Delhi to the ground. Then I blasted off to AC, content with my victory


Lucarse:

Any civ that is not at war with the civ you nuke will declare war on your cv after a first strike.

Petro:

It depends on what happened before the crash and if it is still playable (would it still be fun?)