What's the largest army of Nukes you ever had?

[Mehmed II]

What's the largest army of Nukes you ever had at once?

My record is 15 and more is coming.
Difficulty is Chieftain.

Global warming, damn!

 

[Ecofarm]

"Army of Nukes"

Blast those bastards. Then, read some threads in this forum and move up in difficulty level. I found that reading threads here helped me move up in difficulty level, and the game got even better.

 

[johnny5000]

What's the largest army of Nukes you ever had at once?

My record is 15 and more is coming.
Difficulty is Chieftain.

Global warming, damn!

My most recent victory (I think small map, continents on prince) I had probably at least 15 or so. All that was left was me and Peter- I had one entire continent and the northern and southern thirds of the other continent- he was sandwiched in between. We were at peace at the time. I wanted to make sure I had enough to blast every city he had, and still have some nukes left over for a second round.

So I built up a bunch of them, and then I let loose with the surprise nuke attack

I'm evil.

 

[jeremiahrounds]

In my attempt at the most recent HoF I unleashed a pretty solid nuclear barrage but i didnt collect them. I was racing to strike before SDI went up. And besides if you use them early they have a greater cumulative disruption to overall production in the game. Poor Gandi had every one of his cities nuked once. Washington got 7 cities nuked. I nuked his capital twice. Bismark had 3 cities nuked.Victoria had 1 city nuked before I logged out. With every one of 16 civs in the game though I had alot of bad reactions to deal with. I was trying to distract people from space race. Surprisingly nobody launched a nuke at me.

I tried dropping 3 on asoka but he had SDI.

Also in the surprising catagory Peter was the only AI to launch a barrage of nukes... and at gandhi! Go peter!

Its alot of fun but tedious game now.

 

[Dan Quale]

I won a monarch diplomatic victory with no friends, well actually I had 78 friends they just werent human. Each nuke reduces a cities population by approx. 1/2 assuming it has no shelter/sdi. So I hit everything down to <7 the turn before the election, and snap diplo victory. One of my first wins a long time ago, and one of the few times ive ever had use for a nuke, the global warming is just too much to handle. And for the price of 39000 hammers think of the conventional army I could have had. Also nukes create intense war weariness, so if you ever consider this strategy, declare war... wait 9 turns, hopefully you have a ship baracade around you and you are not near any of the targets, then fire. Otherwise your population will decline as well as the population of the targets due to mass unhappiness. I suppose a police state/rushmore/jail combo would also work, or a high culture slider.

 

[Mehmed II]

"Army of Nukes"

Blast those bastards. Then, read some threads in this forum and move up in difficulty level. I found that reading threads here helped me move up in difficulty level, and the game got even better.

I think that "army of nuke"s might be better than "amount of nukes".
Well, i'm not the best at english, but.. never mind.
("never mind" ihave learned it from civIV )

 

[aelf]

42 in Civ2. Never built one in Civ4. Too marginal.

 

[Ecofarm]

It is not that "army of nukes" is grammatically incorrect (like, for instance, a double negative). That's not what I thought was funny. It was my own imagination and the image it conjures for me. A division of nukes marching in formation

Like the brooms in that Mickey Mouse Film "The Apprentice".

For the purpose of helping, in case anyone cares: number (or quantity) of nukes.

 

[Admiral Kutzov]

IIRC, it was a noble game where I had the tech lead and no idea what I was doing. The cities had all the buildings, etc. IIRC, I had a nuke for each AI city. There was an orange glow on that map. Somewhere around 35 nukes before I launched...

 

[uncarved block]

Two. And that was just for the heck of it.

I just can't get over the Civ2 tendency to put off nukes as long as possible- the AI would always come steal it pronto once you had Fission, and trade it like mad. Funny, they'd never research it on their own, as much as the AI seemed to like threatening you with that bold faced type.

Yeah, Civ4 is a different game, and the sooner you get Fusion the faster you can launch-- it's just a phobia, that's all . . .

 

[Whitefire]

42 in Civ2. Never built one in Civ4. Too marginal.

Agreed. I finally built my first when going for a domination victory on a huge world map. I can't see any other condition where the hammers invested in nukes outweighs those in a conventional army.

 

[Harbourboy]

I have never built a nuclear weapon in Civ IV.

 

[Ball Lightning]

5 on emporor.

 

[sylvanllewelyn]

Never had the situation where nukes paid off.

Is it too much to ask to have a nuke completely wipe off a city off the face of the Earth? Even then, 500 hammers is a lot, and fission is close enough for space race to pull off first anyway. If one tank represents a tank army, a nuke should represent a nuclear barrage.

 

[czechdude]

I had about 15 in one prince game, and I nuked all the top 5 cities (aside from my own) on the turn before my SS launched.

 

[Galileo44]

Nukes are too late and the consequences too much for heavy useage. I find conventional armies much better. And just to add mine: 4.

PS. I think Aelf might be making a sly reference not a serious answer. But maybe he did have exactly 42.

 

[aelf]

PS. I think Aelf might be making a sly reference not a serious answer. But maybe he did have exactly 42.

That was on Civ2. The point is nukes were so much better then. Of course, the AIs had a tendency to use them on you if you let them.

 

[Mischief]

I`ve never built a nuke either in civ ii, iii or iv; somehow the situation where they would have been useful never arose.
Usually, by the time I could build them I`ve either finished the game or am dedicating all my production towards a space ship victory.

 

[Calder]

I've only tried nukes in one game, huge pangea map, monarch, marathon, as Inca. I owned about half the map, with Germany owning about a third, the rest of the map consisting of 4 small civilizations. Going for conquest, I let loose a huge barrage of nukes on Germany (they actually were no.1 in power). I must of built at least 30 nukes since in 5 of his cities I double, sometimes treble hit due to a very large number of defenders in some of his cities. As Germany had vassals (America and England), this was a huge war, but lasted only about 15 turns! I later won with a diplomatic victory. (Germany had beaten me to the UN by 2 turns - couldn't believe he never went for no nukes, as the first two resolutions went his way). However as fun as it was (and tedious in scheming for a quick result), I won't use nukes again due to the massive destruction on prime land caused by global warming. I lost 2 towns around my capital alone when floodplains turned to desert, and numerous high yield tiles. But I guess for a quickened victory it was worth it.

 

[Mehmed II]

When I lose that game what i was just talking, I looked settings:
ICBM Current 0 Built 53 Lost 0

I lose the game because everyone get angry, "why? I was so nice"