Ever been nuked?

BassDude726 · Dec 16, 2004

I was just wondering... Occasionally if you nuke a civ and they have nukes too, you get it right back. And sometimes even if you don't have nukes. But have you ever been nuked by the AI when you have nukes? It's never happened to me. Does the AI fear mutually assured destruction too?

Aramazd · Dec 16, 2004

It has happened to me on cheiftan once but there were only 3 civs left and one was on a different continent.

warpstorm · Dec 16, 2004

Quite a few times, but always when I've started IIRC.

Crazy Jerome · Dec 16, 2004

I got nuked one time, going for space ship when I had the game well in hand, but not that far ahead of the opposition. Since it was a standard game with about half the civs holding several nukes, it got ugly before I managed to launch.

Fortunately, I had SDI or whatever that nuke protect thing in my best cities--only game I ever had that went far enough to build the protection.

viper275 · Dec 16, 2004

Once in Vpr3 we were nuked without nuking anyone else (but when we were nuked we totally destroyed people.) In Jumpmasters1A, I D/Led the last save, launched all the nukes (just for fun), and got nuked back like 20 times. Other than that I don't think I have, my games usually don't last that long.

Illusion13 · Dec 16, 2004

Off course... And, off course, it somehow occured to me to be funny... I mean, I laughed my *** off...

Turner · Dec 17, 2004

Yes! I hate it.

I much rather be the giver than the reciever.

BassDude726 · Dec 17, 2004

That's really weird. I play on Monarch huge pangea maps as Japan with all civs, and I've never been nuked. Is it a fluke of statistics? I always build up my ICBM force for the eventuality but it never comes. Do you think your own nuclear arsenal has anything to do with the probability of other civs nuking you?

citizen001 · Dec 17, 2004

My games usually never go that far now, it used to when i first started playing....

BassDude726 · Dec 17, 2004

Hey now, citizen, I'm not incompetent, I just prefer to fight in the modern era. Modern armor on mech infantry makes for some interesting battles. I can hold my own, don't worry about me. Plus, amphibious invasion becomes a lot more interesting in that era too.

Arathorn · Dec 17, 2004

Been nuked without nuking first? Oh, yeah. This one game I played (http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=67720)...on Sid...first game on Sid that I know of. Yeah, we got nuked before we even knew what nukes were. Took us a while to nuke back, but it was worth it!

Arathorn

tR1cKy · Dec 17, 2004

Only once I got nuked by America. We were at war, I had a strong defense stack on a border town. They nuked the town then conquered it. Bad deal for them, since i could nuke them back without suffering diplomatic penalties... I used the "nuke first, conquer then" on all their cities, they were annihilated very quickly.

Charles 22 · Dec 17, 2004

Arathorn said:
Been nuked without nuking first? Oh, yeah. This one game I played (http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=67720)...on Sid...first game on Sid that I know of. Yeah, we got nuked before we even knew what nukes were. Took us a while to nuke back, but it was worth it!

Arathorn

No, actually the question is if you got nuked 'after' you had nukes, that is, one or more made, and hadn't launched any yourself. I'm sure a lot of us have been nuked when we didn't have any.

sealman · Dec 17, 2004

Yes. I was once at war with the Iroquois and we both had nukes. After a few turns of war, they dropped the bomb on me. (but they dropped it on a city that I captured from someone else and it was a pretty corrupt city so no real damage.)

After the other remaining civs declared war on the Iroquois, I retaliated. My motto is "For every one nuke laucnhed at me, three are fired back"

magritte · Dec 17, 2004

I've never actually seen nukes used, except for once when I dropped a nuke on somebody at random just to see the effect.

dgfred · Dec 17, 2004

sealman said:
Yes. I was once at war with the Iroquois and we both had nukes. After a few turns of war, they dropped the bomb on me. (but they dropped it on a city that I captured from someone else and it was a pretty corrupt city so no real damage.)

After the other remaining civs declared war on the Iroquois, I retaliated. My motto is "For every one nuke laucnhed at me, three are fired back"

Unless it is Babylon :lol:

Then how many :mischief:

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sealman · Dec 17, 2004

dgfred said:
Unless it is Babylon Then how many .

They never last that long - or I don't. The two of us will NEVER be in the Modern Age in the same game.

Alone · Dec 17, 2004

I play this game for 2 year (hundred of them) and I expirienced everything (or almost), so Yes, I was nuked like that :mad:

and it's "never pleasent" filling. Once I already made Protection from Nuke Attack (SMD) and Mongols still droped three ICBM on my cities, which means they send more than ten :cry:

!?! (Since every forth [should be like that] was found the target. Am I right?)

Oddible · Dec 17, 2004

Well that's some good news actually. I always thought that is was hard coded that the AI would never make a first strike. At one point several months into playing Civ I nuked my neighbor just because I was sick of not seeing Nukes every used. Well of course they nuked me back.

In all the years I've played civ, I nave NEVER been hit by an AI first strike nuke.

The Last Conformist · Dec 17, 2004

My games rarely last that long.

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