SilentMage
On the Von Braun
Shigga said:I wonder if you can really provoke the AI into nuking you (or some other civ) in the first place. Never happened in civ3.
Actually, there was this one game I played in Civ3 as the Romans where, by throwing a single nuke at the Americans from one of my nuclear subs, not only did my allies stick by me (only 1 of 14 nations that I wasn't at war with declared war on me after the initial attack on America, whom I was already at war with) but the Americans retaliated by nuking 5 of my cities with ICBMs the following turn!! After that, my allies (and the rest of the world, pretty much) gave me permission to use my entire nuclear arsenal on America, which I did! In about 10 turns the majority of North America was completely buried in nuclear fallout. Also, those allies of mine that weren't at war w/ America before this declared war on them.
This Civ game was the ONLY time I've seen the AI not only NOT turn against you after using nuclear weapons, but stick by your side after you're nuked. It was like they felt sorry for me and that I was justified in using my entire arsenal!!
PS -- If you're wondering, this game was in CivIII: Conquests w/ no mods.