How to intercept Nukes?

[Colossian]

I know that SDI and UN are helpful. Is there any way to shut down Nukes?

 

[Snerk]

As far as i know, the only way to intercept nukes is to build the SDI. It is suposed to intercept 75% of nukes, but in my experience it seems to intercept even more than that.
Mind you, in SP games i have never once had a nuke lanched at me.

 

[Grimus]

You can also build bomb shelters to make them less severe.

 

[thadian]

Bomb Shelters + SDI = nonukes. The ones that do hit you will look harder than they are, 2 turns of fallout scrubbing, 5 turns of repop building and bingo, your city is fine again.

You can also re-vote on the nukes resolution to re enable it. I like to get UN up and No Nukes running before nukes can become a problem.

 

[Da_V_Man]

Make sure no one builds the manhattan project. And I think you kill nukes that are based in the cities you capture.

 

[Nicopol]

SDI is lame!
75% WTH
it's science fiction
and every counter measure can be countered...

 

[CivMonger]

SDI is lame!
75% WTH
it's science fiction
and every counter measure can be countered...

yeah, geeze, I hate when video games branch off from what is realistic. My warriors should die after 60 years of game play because the soldiers get old and croak.

This game isn't all about history. Some of it has to do with balance and fun. Thats right, I used the f word

 

[ac196nataku]

it's not fun when nukes are completely pointless. forget the stupidity of the SDI. bomb shelters, which largely do nothing outside of provide psychological comfort in real life, completely own nukes in this game.

 

[Leeksoup]

I once got nuked to the stone age by Bismarck. He was many techs ahead of me- He had made the Manhattan project while I was still researching Fission. I decided that I needed to do something about him before he built the spaceship and won, so I declared war.

Next turn, four nukes each landed on every one of my cities. Most of which didn't have bomb shelters- they were still being built.

I got pwnt.

 

[Orthodox Warior]

I once got nuked to the stone age by Bismarck. He was many techs ahead of me- He had made the Manhattan project while I was still researching Fission. I decided that I needed to do something about him before he built the spaceship and won, so I declared war.

Next turn, four nukes each landed on every one of my cities. Most of which didn't have bomb shelters- they were still being built.

I got pwnt.

WHAT? Sounds interesting. AI never nuked me. What difficulty level does this happened to you?

 

[Meester_henk]

AI really uses nukes, so beware. Ottoman empire retaliated when I had war with their Zulu allies. Mehmed used something like 30 missiles against me! Yes, I was quite completely pawned without any SDI or shelters. I play on noble level.

 

[Soneji]

No the AI does like nukes.

I had a game where I was starting a war against Washington, with Hatshepsut my vassal. Egypt was small but very teched up.

I declare war, move the fleet in and start with the bombers. Soldiers cross the border. Pick his top 12 cities and drop two nukes on each, leaving some 6 ICBM's in case anyone decided to join in. Washington was a couple of turns away from building SDI my spy showed, hense my timing. ( I had MP, SDI & Shelters everywhere)

His cities were decimated, no shelters in all but the capitol. So I rain the remaining 6 salvos down on that. Click the turn button..

"Washington launches an ICBM but it is shot down...."

over and over and over, probably about 8-9 all in.

Hatshepsut then starts to launch nukes all over the outskirt cities of America (very much to my suprise!!), the cities I didn't nuke ones closer to Egyption borders. I didn't even realise they had access to Uranium!

Pacal II and Vietnam (mod) both declare on my consortium, and it was all out war from there.

They really start to pelt nukes over, with one or two actually making contact but with negligible effects due to me waiting until SDI was built.

If your don't build the Manhatten Project yourself, go very much for SDI and shelters as a priority.

America fell about 20 - 30 turns later with armour, I also managed to nuke Vietnam (on the other continent) into capitulation. Airlifted everything over, and ran out of time to take out Pacal. Really wish I had taken time victory off.

So beware, the AI will be ruthless with nukes. I have had a game peacefull for pretty much the whole, then someone declares and some of the AI's nuke bombing paterns are pretty to watch!

I tend to quit the game if I have been heavily stomped on with nukes, as repelling the infantry and artillery / tanks becomes impossible.

 

[Ace4nyC]

I once got nuked to the stone age by Bismarck. He was many techs ahead of me- He had made the Manhattan project while I was still researching Fission. I decided that I needed to do something about him before he built the spaceship and won, so I declared war.

Next turn, four nukes each landed on every one of my cities. Most of which didn't have bomb shelters- they were still being built.

I got pwnt.

One time i was playing 2 contents game i owned 1 continent and monty other.

me and monty had a nuclear exchange for good 5 turns. Poor Poor me i didnt have sdi, but i did mass produced nukes it was kind of fun watching all the shields go to waste..

 

[CivMonger]

thanks for the heads up. Current game the Chinese have gotten out of control, I think they are actually beating me score wise, and I'm just now getting caught up in technologies, thanks to a permanent alliance with the Egyptians. I'm almost positive that once I finish off my current war and move on to establish foothold on the Chinese continent that the war is going nuclear. I'll be sure to take the proper precautions.

 

[LlamaCat]

I've never had the AI nuke me, how the heck are you guys getting games like that?

 

[J.Rose]

I started out on noble for a couple of games when Civ4 came out but all I play is Prince now. Never have I had a nuke tossed my way.