Concept: Nuclear missiles and Typhoon....

[GenghisK]

Ok, once again playing gotm till 3am didn't help me to keep my mental health

I was playing quite normally when I saw Vikings submarines and that reminded me something. Ok, submarines can't bombard coast. That's normal, but somewhere they have a "strategic" feature in the real world that could be interesting to add in the game. I'll take the russian Typhoon/Victor classes example. The first one is a strategic sub, the second one is tactic.
In Civ2, the subs are tactic, ie they are attack ships. Now how about a intercontinental missiles carrier-sub? That can make sense and be a real nightmare (therefore a great challenge) for multiplayer games.

Statement: in Civ2, nukes had a limited range so you couldn't launch it from a too distant city <FONT COLOR="blue">*</FONT c> but if you have a strategic submarine, you can have posseidon missiles with you (exactly like carriers and aircrafts). Since it's hard to spot a submaring, that would be exciting in MP game. Example:
"AAAAH, I saw a Typhoon"
"Mwahahahaha"
"nonono"
"yesyesyes"

"nono..."
< <FONT COLOR="red"><FONT size="4">BLAAAAAAAAAAAM</FONT s></FONT c> >

<IMG SRC="http://www.ifrance.com/GenghisK/nuke.gif" border=0>

I'm pretty curious to have your opinion concerning that. All the existing strategies on Civ2 would have to be re-thought

And in that way this will really institute a permanent state of paranoid, exactly like the Cold War. Ok, I stop before my brain melts down or you call the asylum...

<FONT COLOR="blue">*</FONT c>Nota: btw, this should also be fixed to in Civ3, since now the intercontinental missiles exist! so we should have a 50 square ranged missile. anyway...

------------------
<IMG SRC="http://www.ifrance.com/genghisk/GKultima.gif" border=0>

 

[Stormbringer]

I think in civ2 submarines can carry missles and nuclear missles.
Actualy that's the only thing I use them for!

 

[RouTaran]

subs can carry missiles (cruise and nuke) and it works great against the comp. wouldnt advise it in a multiplayer game tho cuz the other player will see it comming. The sub itself is not visible but if its carrying nukes, you'll see the nukes and soon after you will see a lone cruise missile come and sink that sub with all the missiles

 

[Stormbringer]

Not always!
I used it in a MP game and it works!
Subs are much cheaper than carriers so I use them as missle platforms

 

[GenghisK]

Sorry to say that but, how do you manage to put a nuke in your sub? I tried it many times, and all I got to work was to put them on a carrier. I couldn't store them in my submarine at all! Aaargh. My "special" Macintosh version of Civ 2 must be corrupted. That's why I can't do what you say. And sorry if this thread has become useles...

My Mac has really a problem then. But I can't patch the game since, uh, well, it's a ... never mind

 

[stormerne]

So maybe this discussion is changing into something that should be on one of the Civ2 forums. Unless anyone has any new ideas on this subject for Civ3 (?)

------------------
<IMG SRC="http://www.anglo-saxon.demon.co.uk/stormerne/stormerne.gif" border=0>