BareJag
Chieftain
Poisonous gas
As the stupid history-reader I am, I last weekend got another idea of weapons in the civilization.
The weapon i Think about is poisonous gas. In every "realistic" games, nuclear weapons in a self-evident continuation of the warfare. Seen in a historic perspective, cemical and biological warfare have been even a bigger part of the warfare.
Here's some examples;
The westfront in the first world war, the germans, andl later the other countries too, used phosgene, chlorine, mustard gas and so on. In the beging it was spread by the wind, but later by artillery
In the second world war Hitler hided, but, lucky is, didn't used, the nerve gas sarin, in case of the allied would use gas against them.
Saddam Hussein used mustard gas, sarin and tabun. This time spread by aircraft.
Mostly of the big countries, and bigger warfigthing countries have gas in their arsenal, and have been preppared for using it since the beginning of the last century.
Biological weapons have been used for more than 2500 years, but was not used the same way.
In total realism gas would be used a comparable way as tactical nuclear weapons.
- It casuses high collateral dammage
- The more modern troops are, the better they can mannage the attacks
- The developement of gas will be in the not far from the time of rifleing.
- Attack against a city will decrease the poppulaion, but there'll be a limit how low it can be.
- Spread buy atrillery and aircraft.
- Huge effects on international poppularity
- Cheap
As the stupid history-reader I am, I last weekend got another idea of weapons in the civilization.
The weapon i Think about is poisonous gas. In every "realistic" games, nuclear weapons in a self-evident continuation of the warfare. Seen in a historic perspective, cemical and biological warfare have been even a bigger part of the warfare.
Here's some examples;
The westfront in the first world war, the germans, andl later the other countries too, used phosgene, chlorine, mustard gas and so on. In the beging it was spread by the wind, but later by artillery
In the second world war Hitler hided, but, lucky is, didn't used, the nerve gas sarin, in case of the allied would use gas against them.
Saddam Hussein used mustard gas, sarin and tabun. This time spread by aircraft.
Mostly of the big countries, and bigger warfigthing countries have gas in their arsenal, and have been preppared for using it since the beginning of the last century.
Biological weapons have been used for more than 2500 years, but was not used the same way.
In total realism gas would be used a comparable way as tactical nuclear weapons.
- It casuses high collateral dammage
- The more modern troops are, the better they can mannage the attacks
- The developement of gas will be in the not far from the time of rifleing.
- Attack against a city will decrease the poppulaion, but there'll be a limit how low it can be.
- Spread buy atrillery and aircraft.
- Huge effects on international poppularity
- Cheap
