Nuking

[Wem]

Does nuking a city destroy all the units garrisoned in there?

I'm about to build up, and spend a while premeditating an invasion against the most powerful civ in the game I'm currently playing.. we've both got all the technology and his cities are loaded with fighters, gunships, artillery, he's got destroyers patrolling the ocean..

The Manhattan Project has been built, and I've got 10 nukes (mostly rush built).. will my invading out of the blue (we've been Friendly and war allies for the entire game but he just dropped to Pleased with my refusal to help him massacre a weak civ) provoke him to nuke me? How willing are civs to start nuclear wars?

I remember back in Civ 3 when I nuked a rival, just one missile into their capital, and the next turn every other civ nuked me.. about 30 or 40 nukes into all my cities, game over. Even from allies.

Will that happen to the civ that fires a nuke first?

Also, do uranium resources run out eventually?

 

[AngryPants]

All these things are irrelevant. What truly matters is the joy you get from knowing that millions died horrible radioactive deaths so that you could watch the sweet mushroom cloud animation.

 

[King Jason]

From what I've experianced, a civ only nukes you if you nuke them. This is of course not concrete, however - this is truly the only time I've ~ever~ been nuked.

You can only be nuked when at war.

You get a diplomatic penalty on the Civ you nuke, and a smaller one on any of his friends. This occurs anytime you use a nuke.

Uranium doesn't run out - as far as I can tell, no resources does.

Nuking a city damages the units there, and can destroy buildings, and improvements around the city, also adding radiactive waste to the tile. One nuke may or may not destroy all the units in the city, it's possible. Two nukes usually takes care of it from what I've experianced.

Basically, build enough nukes to nuke every one of his cities twice, and provided he doesn't have SDI, you'll succeed in destroying the Bulk of his civilization, two nukes in every city will destroy and/or weaken all of his units, destroy several buildings in each city, and ruin surrounding tile production. It's incredibly crippling.