wtiberon
One man who stands alone
I got Nuked by the Romans once after Nuking them.
Ever Been Nuked By the AI?
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Ahh, the fun of nuking. I remember one of my first games playing Civ III.. I was a good young ruler and marily bouncing my way through chieftain level. Anyways, I had conquered the zulu and persian threat easily. (Chieftain I know, cut me some slack.. I was a rookie, hehe) The game droned on and on, and I kept playing past the 2050 end time.
Eventually... Alexander (I was the Greeks) just sort of snapped one day... and sent 50+ nukes towards almost every AI Civ that could be hit, which was all that were left. The world quickly went to war against Greece.. and the next turn.. all of them unleashed their nukes. I've never seen so much firepower in a total of two turns. What I launched at the world came at me almost two fold. (An exaggeration, but it was certainly more than I had fired) Where they all got these nukes on chieftain, I don't remember... It was far into the future. My civilization was pretty much devastated. Even with the SDI... Not sure I ever recovered.. sort of had to focus efforts on school and such.. and lost track and interest in the game.
Eventually... Alexander (I was the Greeks) just sort of snapped one day... and sent 50+ nukes towards almost every AI Civ that could be hit, which was all that were left. The world quickly went to war against Greece.. and the next turn.. all of them unleashed their nukes. I've never seen so much firepower in a total of two turns. What I launched at the world came at me almost two fold. (An exaggeration, but it was certainly more than I had fired) Where they all got these nukes on chieftain, I don't remember... It was far into the future. My civilization was pretty much devastated. Even with the SDI... Not sure I ever recovered.. sort of had to focus efforts on school and such.. and lost track and interest in the game.
Adam7Eight
Emperor
I must have a completely different game than the rest of you guys. I have never been nuked by the AI, though I have nuked them quite a bit. I also have yet to see my reputation go sour after nuking rival civs. It seems every time I fire off a nuke every other civ except the one I'm bombing is gracious towards me, at least on Warlord, Regent, Monarch, and Emporer levels. I can't count how many times I have achieved a diplomatic victory by sending off a storm of nukes and winning on the next turn because every civ is gracious and votes for me. I don't know, I might have a go at this on deity and see what happens.
Syrus_Knife
Sifted Silaphi
I ICBMed Berlin one time, I was WAY more advanced than the Germans, in fact the Germans were in the Middle Ages (I was in the Modern Ages) and I know they couldn't have the technology, but they ICBMed me right back! Hehehe, I have no idea what the problem with that was....but it happened twice more with the French.
In my last deity game with huge map, I was nuked by the egyptians first.
I was Babylonian. In the middle of modern times, I was #3 in terms of military power, although i led by two techs. Persia was #1 and shared a same continent with me; Egypt was #2, and occupied a nearby large island. Egypt had the monopoly of spice, and i had to pay them big money to trade it. Then Persia began a war against Egypt. I was very surprised that the Egyptian demanded a tech from me 4 or 5 turns later. So I refused, and Egypt declared war on me. So I collected my 20 or so M.M. and landed on the Egyptian island, of course under the protection of two Mech Infantry army. So I took two Egyptian cities and razed them, and build my own city on top of the spices. Also, with the help of Persia, I destroyed all the Egyptian navies nearby.
Then the true surprise came, the Egyptians threw their only 4 ICBMs on me. They didn't nuke the Persians, although Persia was stronger than me, and was fighting with them too. Anyway, then the whole world declared war on Egypt, and other AIs began to nuke egyptian cities. When it was my turn again, all of egyptian cities were nuked by other AIs. I kept on by throwing all my nukes, 6 ICBMs and some tactical nukes, on the egyptians too. Finally the largest egyptian city was nuked from a pop around 30 to only 2, and egypt was destroyed in 3 turns.
Before this, I never thought that AIs would begin a nuke war. I still didn't know how I pissed off the egyptians so bad that they would suicide by beginning a nuke war.
I was Babylonian. In the middle of modern times, I was #3 in terms of military power, although i led by two techs. Persia was #1 and shared a same continent with me; Egypt was #2, and occupied a nearby large island. Egypt had the monopoly of spice, and i had to pay them big money to trade it. Then Persia began a war against Egypt. I was very surprised that the Egyptian demanded a tech from me 4 or 5 turns later. So I refused, and Egypt declared war on me. So I collected my 20 or so M.M. and landed on the Egyptian island, of course under the protection of two Mech Infantry army. So I took two Egyptian cities and razed them, and build my own city on top of the spices. Also, with the help of Persia, I destroyed all the Egyptian navies nearby.
Then the true surprise came, the Egyptians threw their only 4 ICBMs on me. They didn't nuke the Persians, although Persia was stronger than me, and was fighting with them too. Anyway, then the whole world declared war on Egypt, and other AIs began to nuke egyptian cities. When it was my turn again, all of egyptian cities were nuked by other AIs. I kept on by throwing all my nukes, 6 ICBMs and some tactical nukes, on the egyptians too. Finally the largest egyptian city was nuked from a pop around 30 to only 2, and egypt was destroyed in 3 turns.
Before this, I never thought that AIs would begin a nuke war. I still didn't know how I pissed off the egyptians so bad that they would suicide by beginning a nuke war.
how on earth did that happen? could they have brought or captured it from another civ? i dindt htink that was possible. i thought ICBMs went the same was of non stealth aircraft when they were attacked!
is this some major diety cheat or summin?
I've been nuked by the AI once. I was down to two cities, and I was about to be wiped off the map. I used my only nuke (a tactical nuke) against some enemy American and British troops, and the Americans retaliated with three ICBMs, paving the way for the British to destroy me later that turn.
Has anybody been hit by AI-launched tactical nukes? I've never heard of that happening before.
Has anybody been hit by AI-launched tactical nukes? I've never heard of that happening before.
Mullet Crusader
Celtic Warrior
Well, i hate Nationalism personally, so dont think of me as some Captain America type idiot, but i really dont think the U.S. nuked Japan just to show who's the bigget guy on the block. I mean, that would have been a form of intimidation, and the U.S. probably could have gotten anything it wanted from anyone at that time when we had nukes and everyone else was helpless against them, and yet we didn't try to take over the world, and were in fact pretty lenient on our enemies, it was actually the Russians that gave people a hard time, they were really pissed at those Germans. Anyway, if we had opted to spare the Japanese nukes and invade them on a ground level, well that would've been even worse. We had already gone through Guada Canal, easily one of teh hairiest combat sites in teh entire war, tons of our guys had died in all over the world, the American public was very tired of it. While Japan was largely defeated, a ground invasion would have just been a war of attrition, we would have inevitably won, but millions on both sides would have died, especially considering the unbreakable spirit of the Japanese, they would've given their lives in ocmbat against any odds to stop the AMericans, dropping the nukes, while it was a horrible act, killed far less people than if we had launched a ground invasion, so i really dont think it was a "wrong" thing to do, i mean, it was a WAR, not a tea party.
As for the AI, i have never had to use nukes, or had them used on me, since i almost always win the UN vote or space race before the AI has nukes. Im gonna go up to a higher difficulty and see if the AI starts kicking my ass again
As for the AI, i have never had to use nukes, or had them used on me, since i almost always win the UN vote or space race before the AI has nukes. Im gonna go up to a higher difficulty and see if the AI starts kicking my ass again
blackhalo14
Chieftain
i was playin on diety for some dumb reason, and i was behind in techs, and yet, germany decided they wanted all the techs that i have and they dont, and i didn't give it to em, so the unloaded hundreds of panzers (i have no navy lol) and had all other civilizations except for egypt sign an alliance against me, so, i was gettin my butt kicked, lost 16 of my 29 cities, and hit em all with about 30 icbms, destroyed two of the civs that were fightin me... (there were 8 of em in all) germany, and rome, and sent the rest of em back to the stone age, and then, my supposed ALLY ended the mutual pro pact and used four icbms on my capital city, and destroyed the rest with tac nukes, and the moral of this story, is to never play on diety lol
