What Nuclear Devastation looks like

[3Davideo]

I recently played a game that included my first use of nuclear weapons before I actually won the game. After I won (by spaceship), I decided to explore nuclear conquest. I set all my cities on ICBMs, then just started bombing a nation that I wasn't too happy with. Eventually, all that settled out, but I had bombed China so much that it was covered in pollution. With all that pollution, global warming got so out of hand that every single tile of arable land had turned to desert. I then saved up my nukes for 50 or so turns until I had 100, then nuked every enemy city on the planet. Then I used some modern armor to scrape off the surviving zombies. Here's the save files. They're for Vanilla, Civ 3.

The first file, "Before Nukes", is before the first use of nuclear weapons, just so you can see what the world was like before it got irradiate. The second, "100 nukes to launch", has all 100 ICBM's ready to launch, with the desertified planet. The third, "Post Alpacalypse", is after all the zombies were eradicated.

This game also happens to have been my first occasion to be on the recieving end of a nuke. After launching my 100, the French shot their 5 ICBMs at me. Meh.

 

[Taras Bulba]

this also sums it up nicely

http://forums.civfanatics.com/showpost.php?p=4746808&postcount=1

 

[Son_Of_Dido]

I just finally beat the 9th Conquest Scenario (WWII in the Pacific) on the backbone of:

1) SGL for researching Fission
2) Instabuilding Manhattan Project
3) Cash rushing Atom Bombs in California
4) airlifting them en masse to Iwo Jima
5) PRESS BUTTON

This is the first time I've ever actually played enough of the modern era and been in enough of a disadvantageous position where nukes have been a practical option.

It was glorious fun.

Although of course, one hiccup, in true "Spearman defeats Tank" fashion that is frustratingly endemic to this scenario, I've found, a Nuke on Osaka leaves nothing but one redlined 6-5-2 defender, who proceeded to take on my veteran 9-7-1 Marine AND WIN. ARgghhhhh.

So I nuked the city again.

 

[timerover51]

A more accurate picture of nuclear destruction. More accurate and true to life.

 

[anaxagoras]

Thank goodness the pixels we push aren't real, and that there has never been a need or desire to recreate that picture in real life.

 

[drakonius]

I use nuclear weapons as matters of doctrine and policy.I mostly use them to pick off strong enemy forces or as a terror weapon against enemies. I did however launch a full scale attack against Russia in the mod that I am building and testing. My nation,The Reich of The Volk(a fictionalized South Africa) was attacked by both Russia and the United States within one turn of eachother. We had just ovverun the whole of the contiental Confederate States of America(we left the Confederates Cuba and the Amazon) when our American allies turned on us. Most of the Wehrmacht was now engaged fighting the United States or protecting our new Lebensraum in what was once the CSA. We were delighted that the stupid aggressive Americans would now add their terrirory as well.The dumb violent Confederates had attacked us shortly before and most of their land now belonged to The Volk.Victory in North America would soon come with the help of the Luftwaffe and the Luftflotte(our fleet of bombing and troop transporting zeppelins). Victories in the previous war against Russia,Greece,Turkey,Yugoslavia,Italy,Germany,France,Britain and Africa(a modern Carthage) had given us new lands from the Atlantic Ocean to the Indian Empire and from south of Moscow to the Persian Gulf.We were happy.The Reich and its Axis Partners,The Zulu Empire and Zion(a combined Israel and Abyssinia) would know "PEACE IN OUR TIME!" Then Russia broke our peace treaty(signed the previous turn) and invaded us. We had few men and machines in Eurasia-but we did have a substantial number of new nuclear weapons. We nuked Russia back into the Stone Age and siezed all of Russia west of the Urals with our military skeleton crew. And our scouts found that at least half of the Russian forces were in the field and had survived the nuclear attacks(Huge 365x365 map).We had no more nukes and we were loathe to use more in Russia-we did not want to reduce Russia to nuclear wasteland. The nuclear attacks destroyed enough Russian units to allow us to use our meager air forces in Eurasia to keep the Russians at bay until a new peace treaty could be signed and the Russians forced to make their future in Far Eastern Siberia.The Russians would be reduced to minor threat with WW1 technology for the rest of the game. Russia would prove to be very valuble to us as allies against other powers in Asia and as enemies to keep us sharp. We would mourn them when the British Empire eventually destroyed them in a future war near the end of the game(1000 month turns,approx.1910-2010).

 

[capnvonbaron]

yeah, I had a game like that where the babylonians had been pissing me off the entire game. They had their own smallish continent that, when I got enough ICBMs built up, I turned the whole conuntryside into a polluted desert. Wish I still had that save to show off... same deal though.. I landed one transport of mech inf. and mod armor and took over all dozen or so cities, just razed them all, and left the island to the glow-in-the-dark buzzards.