[Vanilla] Question about nukes

[Phoenix Master]

What are all the different ways to use nuclear and thermonuclear devices?

 

[Planktonic]

You can launch them from bombers/jet bombers; from nuclear submarines (not sure if a regular submarine will deliver a nuke or not); from missile silos that you build in your territory with military engineers.

I think that's it; have only used nukes in a handful of games so there may be other wrinkles....

 

[Phoenix Master]

I hope this doesn't sound strange, but how do you get the nuke from the city that built it to the missile silo.

 

[Planktonic]

I hope this doesn't sound strange, but how do you get the nuke from the city that built it to the missile silo.

You don't need to do anything specific- any nuke that you build is available simultaneously to any of your launch sites/mechanisms. You don't need to specify any specific spatial location for the nuke.

I always make sure to build at least one bomber or silo before building a nuke, though. Not sure what would happen if you build a nuke but have no extant means of delivering it- I am always afraid the game may just delete the device in that case. Don't know if this happens but I've never taken the chance.

 

[Victoria]

Don't know if this happens but I've never taken the chance.

They just count as resources so sit at the top of your screen unusable until you can build a postal service to deliver them.

 

[HiRezAudio]

They just count as resources so sit at the top of your screen unusable until you can build a postal service to deliver them.

Never thought of it that way before, but it sums it up perfectly

 

[Victoria]

Never thought of it that way before, but it sums it up perfectly

There was an HK thread where we were talking about modern ways to use faith, I mentioned there that modern fanatics could be a useful resource in many ways, a postal service for nukes could be another.