Sometimes scorched earth is the only solution

[malicious bloke]

Just occasionally, when a <i>particularly</i> annoying enemy pushes their luck a little too far and interrupts my preparations for the war to end all wars...I get a little bit irritated and bring about the nuclear holocaust.

This time it was the mongols. My British empire held the americas,australia,and europe up to the urals. The zulus (for once) were minding their own business in africa, and the mongols had spread across asia up to my border.

I was just sat there in about 1650, happily building armor and howitzers, getting ready for the big push and then the scum started stealing my tech and other little annoyances.

A century later the whole of asia was a radioactive deadland, several hundred nuclear missiles dropped in quick succession. No more mongols, no more annoying little raids, no more cursing me and the UN, no more demands for space age tech (they were only just industrial).

It makes me wonder why I dont use such tactics more often, but then the amount of cleaning up I had to do to make the remains of their empire viable was pretty huge

 

[Sub]

I would do that type of stuff if it wasn't for the SDI defense. If you can get enough nukes before that, though, good times

 

[Valka D'Ur]

Several hundred nukes in only 10 turns? How many cities did you have and how fast did you build the nukes?

 

[malicious bloke]

I had a couple of nukes in each city to start with. Just as a deterrent you know?

It was deploying them in time that was a challenge. They dont have the range to cross oceans completely, so I had to use subs to move them into position, other than the ones already in europe.

Simultaneously attacking from china's pacific coast, the indian ocean and eastern europe...proper first strike style

 

[Blasph23]

Last time I nuked like that, I had swampy bog lands on my continent in no time :/
No engineer crew could help, there was just too much pollution. But at last, for once in several hundred years, Greeks were silent. It was the most delightful and priceless silence in the entire game, no more marines landing and taking over my farmlands, no more diplomats stealing my techs, no more ships taking the turn-time forever, no more of those DAMNED helicopters flying all over the place... so silent.

EDIT: Excuse the thread necromancy, I only just noticed it's more than a year old...

 

[Gelion]

Best tactics in those situations is to assemble the "Great Wall of China" on your borders with airforce ready to back you up to expel the annoying diplomats. Hardest part still is stopping them founding cities on your borders...