i already got the requirements
i already built 12 ICBMs...they're sitting on my cities
i wanted to throw them at the farthest guy...so i select an ICBM, click the 'launch' button and left click on a freddy's tile.. it didnt work
i right clicked, didnt work
i clicked on his city, it didnt work

do i have to be in a war to be able to launch these babies?
i dont want to be in a war.. we are at a stand off
all are good friends, permanent allies, defensive pacted and whatnot

i dont want to screw up my game... last time i didnt think through a decision, it got me killed(i was in a defensive pact with roosevelt..friendly with freddy, i asked freddy to declare war on roosevelt, then automatically i got in a war with freddy lol .. i forgot i was in a defense pact with roose..freddy killed me. hahaha that was memorable)

I can't answer your question exactly, but I think you've gotta be at war. An ICBM is definately a step of agression, don't you agree.

Slightly off subject: I love the fact that the action item picture to launch an ICBM is the RED BUTTON (of doom!)

I know another thing that prevents you from launching an ICBM is if the city you are targeting has friendly borders inside the 9 squares of death around the city. I wanted to Nuke Catherine's forward city where she had all her units stacked, but one of the squares adjacent to the city itself was owned by Cyrus who I had a def pact with and I couldn't nuke it because of that. I'm not sure if this also applies to friendly units in the area or not, maybe someone else can answer that.

I'm not sure if this also applies to friendly units in the area or not, maybe someone else can answer that.

Yes it does apply to friendly units in the area. Because the nuke will damage them too if they are in the blast radius. I've tried this before because someone kept getting in my way who had open borders but no defense pact, and I wanted them dead too.

Why is there braille at the drive-up ATM?

I know it is off topic...

All students in Illinois are supposed to take driver's education. There is no provision for the blind students.

**cough** permanant alliance **cough**

Is it just me who feels that Nukes aren't powerful enough?

For supreme weapons of mass destruction three of my infantry have done more damage than Nukes

Is it just me who feels that Nukes aren't powerful enough?

For supreme weapons of mass destruction three of my infantry have done more damage than Nukes

That's probably because you're the one shooting them.

you have to be at war

You do realize that you don't have to nuke the city directly in order to annialate it. Myxer, if you want to nuke catherine then nuke the spot behind the city twice, all her units will die, the remaining problem being getting your army through the fallout(but what are railroads for:D). As for friendly units in the way, tell them to cancel trades with the civ you want the mushroom cloud over or vice versa, I realize this isn't possible at all times but it should work if they truly are "friendly" units. Otherwise the choice of a 2v1 war is yours.

As for you KinesongPayaso , you have to declare war, Then launch the nuke. But If you don't have to then don't bother, bad for diplomacy as you might have learned. But if you wanted to nuke freddy you would hve to go to war anyway.

Giant raven, I agree one nuke is weak, but 2 can kill ANYTHING. even if there are 30 units in a stack, all slaughtered. you can kill an enemy's entire defensive front with 2 nukes. easy conquering.

I also have a question about nukes though, is it possible to destroy a nuke with a nuke? never got the chance to try that.

i already got the requirements
i already built 12 ICBMs...they're sitting on my cities
i wanted to throw them at the farthest guy...so i select an ICBM, click the 'launch' button and left click on a freddy's tile.. it didnt work
i right clicked, didnt work
i clicked on his city, it didnt work

do i have to be in a war to be able to launch these babies?
i dont want to be in a war.. we are at a stand off
all are good friends, permanent allies, defensive pacted and whatnot

i dont want to screw up my game... last time i didnt think through a decision, it got me killed(i was in a defensive pact with roosevelt..friendly with freddy, i asked freddy to declare war on roosevelt, then automatically i got in a war with freddy lol .. i forgot i was in a defense pact with roose..freddy killed me. hahaha that was memorable)
Umm.... You don't want to go to war, but you're gonna nuke them? :hmm:

Is it just me who feels that Nukes aren't powerful enough?

For supreme weapons of mass destruction three of my infantry have done more damage than Nukes

Two nukes will kill any stack out in the open and in most cities (I don't know how many it takes if it's got the nuke shelter) and the city pop gets significantly reduced and fallout screws/starves the surrounding areas.

And then if you're me aboud 20 tiles will automatically go to desert from global warming on the next turn (which is bogus, nuclear weapons cause Nuclear Winter not Global Warming).

Hate to break it to you, but yes, you do have to declare war to launch nukes.

I once nuked a horse plot to see what would happen, it survived :rolleyes:

No radiation anywhere either :confused:

I once nuked a horse plot to see what would happen, it survived :rolleyes:

No radiation anywhere either :confused:

All ICBM's leave behind radiation. How did this happen?

Umm.... You don't want to go to war, but you're gonna nuke them? :hmm:
well freddy has immense military power
i did not want to go to war, since he can destroy me

but he was leading the score by 1.5k points
and only 50 turns were left..so i wanted to nuke him, and bring down his score, so i could win the time thingy

well freddy has immense military power
i did not want to go to war, since he can destroy me

but he was leading the score by 1.5k points
and only 50 turns were left..so i wanted to nuke him, and bring down his score, so i could win the time thingy

does he have SDI? if he doesn't send in spies and find his SoDs, then dual-nuke. I'D nuke the stacks near your boarder, then start nuking his large cities. He'll fall so behind in score it should be an easy win.:lol:

does he have SDI? if he doesn't send in spies and find his SoDs, then dual-nuke. I'D nuke the stacks near your boarder, then start nuking his large cities. He'll fall so behind in score it should be an easy win.:lol:
i dont think anyone else has those anti-rocket missiles...
i had 4 economically heavy cities but had minimal military forces, as a sacrifice
because of it, i pulled well ahead in the research race.. and had alot of cash(making me a good spider, playing everyone's strings)
qin, cyrus and alexander were dangers to me, so i paid hatch and freddy to kill those 3

it was a fun game :D

well freddy has immense military power
i did not want to go to war, since he can destroy me

but he was leading the score by 1.5k points
and only 50 turns were left..so i wanted to nuke him, and bring down his score, so i could win the time thingy
I know.... But even if you could nuke them without declaring war first, did you think that they wouldn't declare war on you for practically destroying some of their cities? Or did you think they'd go, "Ah, KindesongPayaso, he's a jolly good fellow. So what if he destroyed [insert city name here]? We're still friends!"

I can imagine why you would have to be at war to nuke somone. I would be pretty ticked if somone sent a nuke at me. But thats just me.

lol omega, of course i thought about that(even though it was 4 in the morning, some brain power still exists--damn these civ games, takes so long to finish)

anyway, i scoped out freddy's cities(using spy, and then trading world maps)
most of his military are stacked in cities. so if i launched 1-2 nukes per city, i can destroy most of his military
he only had 6 main cities, and then 2 more that were weak and recently captured from qin, cyrus etc...

so even if he attacked me after i launched my 12 ICBMs, i can still *hopefully* repel his weakened offensive with my few units