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

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The grand master has spoken

[Wycoff]

I just finished my Nuclear Holocaust game, conquering the last Persian city in 2048. (That same turn my Berlin reached 20000 culture points, so I won two ways on the same turn ) Here is a picture of the former Persian heartland, 40 years after the end of the great war. I cleaned up every bit of the pollution. Global warming didn't have much of an effect. Every once in a while a forested tundra would die off or jungle turned to grassland, but that's it. I ended up with 3400 points (on Monarch). I think that using the nukes was the best thing that I could have done. BTW, I read somewhere that solar plants actually reduce global warming. Is that true?

[Wycoff]

Here is a picture of New Germany in the year 2049:

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so i attacked the romans but they have a bloody settler on a ship somewhere
have also taken out france's oil and a few cities
but germany are not happy with my nuke useage

[pedrojedi]

BTW, I read somewhere that solar plants actually reduce global warming. Is that true?

That WAS true... in Civ2. Civ3 does not offer such a delightful solution to global warming...

[Verto]

Originally posted by pedrojedi


That WAS true... in Civ2. Civ3 does not offer such a delightful solution to global warming...

Hm, I didn't know that. I guess I always took it for granted, coming from Civ2.

[Jarvin]

My best nuke war was as the Egyptians. Early in the game i had annexed Russia and England (the only other countries on my continent) and gotten complete control over the biggest land mass in the game. I also pissed off the other five countries in the world.

To sum up the situation, i had the biggest, meanest country around. With no one else on my island. And with every other country either at war or embargo on me. And it stayed this way from late Medieval to early Modern. Thats when i realized that the war was unwinnable as it was, i couldnt get enough guys over to the badguys' land (namely the Aztecs), so i bought peace with everyone and thought up my master plan.

The plan was to start a big ass nuclear war by 1950. So i made a beeline to ICBMs, built a whole bunch of them, made damn sure to get SDI and started making irrational demands of all my old enemies.
Then the war restarted with everyone against me (again), but by this time i was having fun duking it out with enemy AEGIS cruisers, keeping their transports away from my land.

So the war went on conventionally until 2005 when i suddenly get a huge wave of global warming damage, so i get curious and steal some of the other peoples' world maps, turns out that Germany, Greece, and Japan openned up a big ol' can of nuclear woopass on eachother (about 10 nukes). I figure that i might as well use all the nukes i had collected on my big enemies (America and Atzecs).

In the end there were 75 nukes detonated, against my enemies and 4 against me. When the game finished more than half the world was desert and every city was starving on a regular basis.

And it was the funnest game i ever played.

[AJ Corp. The FAIR]

My games actually never get to nuclear wars. I hate those nasty, polluting, city ruining weapons. Usually I prevent other civs from building the Manhattan Project (note that in some games AI doesn't start building this wonder).

AJ

[badams52]

The one thing I've wondered but never got around to doing was to see what would happen if I got to nukes first and then decided to use them on a couple of cities before the AI got the research done. Kind of like in WWII when America dropped 2 A-bombs. Usually I don't build Manhattan's and finish the game before nukes become available, but it would be nice to see how closely the same WWII situation would appear in civ 3.

Of course another fun option would be to outpace the AI in tech and then unleash a 50+ load of nukes on the AI while their still in the industrial age on the road to domination/conquest. Never got around to doing either though.

[Louis XXIV]

I think MP should be a small wonder, but you can sell Nukes to those who haven't built the MP

[badams52]

Too bad you can't sell weapons in civ 3 eh?

[Aramis]

Originally posted by badams52
Too bad you can't sell weapons in civ 3 eh?

I brought this up in another thread a couple of months ago. It seems logical that since we can build cruise missles, tactical nukes, ICBMs, transports, and helicopters we should be able to sell them to other civs. Become the world's arms broker.
Defense Contractor: New victory condition?

[badams52]

Well, in Civ 2 you could give away units to other nations, but they've never built in a way to "sell" arms, yet. Maybe in Civ 4.

[nationalist]

Sell arms? The only way that I'd ever give the AI an ICBM is when it is targeting their capital. Sell the AI an ICBM and it will head back your way, eventually.

[Louis XXIV]

Good point