Can anyone create a patch or a cheat that creates CHEMICAL or BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS? ...

[mizaq]

Confused. Post a screenshot of you poisoning wells in Civ3 and I'll believe you aren't confused.

 

[napoleon526]

I seem to remember that you could poison a city's water supply in Civ2, and that it would reduce the population by one. I personally didn't use it much.

There probably should be some kind of chemical or biological warfare element in this. They are much easier to make than nukes, and so are more of a threat in developing countries. It also has the effect of causing fear among the population (possibly reducing production?), as those of us in the USA have seen with the anthrax scare. Only about ten people were infected by the disease, but the entire country went into an uproar, refusing to open their mail and purchasing items intended to ward off the disease, as if it were an evil spirit.

Bottom line: governments have and will continue to make biological weapons, so this should be a factor in the game.

 

[JoseM]

Originally posted by napoleon526
I seem to remember that you could poison a city's water supply in Civ2, and that it would reduce the population by one. I personally didn't use it much.

There probably should be some kind of chemical or biological warfare element in this. They are much easier to make than nukes, and so are more of a threat in developing countries. It also has the effect of causing fear among the population (possibly reducing production?), as those of us in the USA have seen with the anthrax scare. Only about ten people were infected by the disease, but the entire country went into an uproar, refusing to open their mail and purchasing items intended to ward off the disease, as if it were an evil spirit.

Bottom line: governments have and will continue to make biological weapons, so this should be a factor in the game.

yeah napoleaon is right... they also used biological and chemical weapons in WW1 !!!!!!!!!!! and this game ends in after 2000 and it still doesnt show any bio or chemical weapon or something... also they eliminated the spy cover mission of nuke a city or destroying an improvement... i remember i used to use a lot the terrorist attack of destroying improvements in civ 2.

 

[hzm]

What sort of units do you propose then?

 

[Emmet Samms]

All I know is that when I NUKE a city I want to see a hole in the ground, not a city with reduced population and pollution. This would make using them a bit more thought provolking, especially when you pretty much know that the other side has the same capability. After all, isn't that one of the main reasons we went through a cold war and not a hot one. The way it is now, it seems to damage the atmosphere (global warming has increased quite a bit in my game) far more than it does your enemy. ES

 

[JoseM]

in my ROMAN save game the AI civs had a nuclear war, all the civs launched nukes each other except me, now im the only civ with ICBMs, i have 80 of them... and now the biggest threat is the global warming, the terain of the world is changing faster, so all the civs that were in war each other stopped the wars, now we are all fighting against the global warming trying to reduce the pollution of the nuked cities.

 

[Cazovi]

hence the need for chemical and biological weapons

'clean' ICBM warfare