Nuclear Attack

[silver 2039]

Nukes are very usefu in Cold War scenarios TCW notably when you are the USSR and need to advance across Europe Germany gets the bulk of my tactical strikes since it's in the way. I hit London, Paris, and Miami also. Usually thats enough fo r my forces to break through in Germany and weaken and scare the others. Retaliation hurts a bit but it's not that bad since the rrange and number of nukes are restricted. Moscow and such can't be hit.

There is no better artillery than nukes after all.

 

[AmericanGeneral]

one time i was at war and the civ nuked me so i didnt nuke them back hoping the others would join but they all unloaded their icbm's on them and took 2 cities(i took the rest) in one turn.

 

[Bucephalus]

The one thing for sure is that it doesn't do a lot for your chances of a diplomatic victory!

 

[basss1]

I have only nuked first once. The problem was that you can not really take the cities without some clean up afterwords

 

[Bluemofia]

Once I used nukes to terraform grassland into flood plain. It was really useful, but it reduced productivity. But, the specialists made up for it.

 

[jguy100]

I used to use nukes a lot in my earlier games. I was a pretty trigger happy, sadistic AI killer (which is easy to be on Chieftain). Now that I've moved up quite a few levels, I find no use for them nor the time to build/launch them.

 

[MorpheusPrince]

I had an AI nuke me first.....I had nukes in the hopes that this will make the AI think twice and I was wrong.

 

[Bluemofia]

Then nuke them back. 5 times greater!

 

[Sashie VII]

Then nuke them back. 5 times greater!

Easier said than done

 

[Bluemofia]

Easier said than done

Oh, but I have done it.

But I was the one who nuked first. Sure, I took out like 12 of their core cities, but they only crippled 2 of my cities. My capital, and my most productive city. (SDI shot down something like 15 nukes)

Anyways, I always keep a SOD of nukes laying around as backup. Very useful at destroying their SOD in your land.

 

[Sashie VII]

Very useful at destroying their SOD in your land.

Which would be a lot cheaper with artillery companies on rails with proper offense to finish the job. Plus no pollution on YOUR land

What I meant by my previous post is that I don't really build much ICBMs or TNs if I do get to that point.

 

[silver 2039]

I love nukes, I insanely love them, In fact this screenshot professes my love for nukes:

 

[Bluemofia]

Which would be a lot cheaper with artillery companies on rails with proper offense to finish the job. Plus no pollution on YOUR land

What I meant by my previous post is that I don't really build much ICBMs or TNs if I do get to that point.

Well, shouldn't you have hordes of workers by then?

Besides, sometimes the SODs are just too huge to use conventional weaponry. (150+ tanks)

 

[Sashie VII]

Well, shouldn't you have hordes of workers by then?

Besides, sometimes the SODs are just too huge to use conventional weaponry. (150+ tanks)

Sure, with lotsa slaves as well. I know the pollution's no problem to the worker crews, just a personal preference not to have my sacred lands stained

Yeah some SoDs are too huge, but if you can't destroy them in one turn then two should be enough. AIs don't use artys effectively If you don't have enough to repel the attack then you might want to rethink why you wanted to go to war in the first place

 

[Bluemofia]

Yeah, but if I sucessfully destroy their SOD (via nuke) I can immedietly counterattack with my entire army, and since their entier army has been reduced to orange goo, except for the garrisons, it will be extreemly easy.

 

[Sashie VII]

A very convenient method, true. But one that I would consider very, very carefully when I:

1. Would be the first to nuke and provoke hostility from a lot of people
2. Have alliances and deals going that I do not want to end
3. Want to fish some leaders

 

[Bluemofia]

You can nuke your own territory without causing everyone to get steaming mad at you.

 

[Sashie VII]

since their entier army has been reduced to orange goo, except for the garrisons

I take it that garrisons refer to the enemy's? That's certainly not in my territory.

 

[Bluemofia]

Yes. But their garrisons are tiny. (2-5 units max)

 

[Desertsnow]

I have nuked exactly once, and then out of frustration more than anything. Needless to say, my frustration increased about tenfold on the next turn.