Nukes was: Tin Cans versus Dreadnoughts

> A lot would depend on how bad you wanted to take out that Kirov, but

Indeed, there are very few wargames that seriously have nukes. They are just
too devastating to make for a fun tactical game. When was the last time you
used a nuke in a game?

Greetings Karl Heinz

> "kh.ranitzsch" wrote:

> > A lot would depend on how bad you wanted to take out that Kirov, but

We use them all the time in GEV and OGRE, and Nuclear War is not the same with
all of the nukes removed. I think the Fleet series of games had the most
interesting mechanic for nuclear weapons. Two things happened if the use of
nuclear weapons was theoretically allowed in a scenario. The first was that

> "kh.ranitzsch" wrote:

I think More thrust missiles are nuclear but i am not sure, but they are

just what you need if you want a flock of harpoon's but be careful what you
wish for, just wait till you have 60 MT missiles auto hitting and doing 2D6
damage each coming at you.

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On Sat, 10 Mar 2001 19:33:08 +0100, KH.Ranitzsch@t-online.de
(kh.ranitzsch) wrote:

> Indeed, there are very few wargames that seriously have nukes. They are

Well, _Supremacy_ has them as a major component. SPI's old _Third World
War_
game used them.

I didn't say they were fun in a wargame! I was just pointing out that there
were other ways of killing a task force if you REALLY needed them.

I like to sometimes use the threat of nuclear weapons as part of a scenario,
but I don't usually use nukes. Funny enough, players don't like to lump all
their ships into one huge impenetrable blob when they think the other side may
nuke a target that's too hard to ignore.

Today -- Ogre.

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G'day Karl,

> When was the last time you used a nuke in a game ?

A couple of DS games ago. The Daleks were losing bad so they thought they'd
even the score (when you're a mutant created by neutron radiation a little old
nuke ain't going to pahse you);)

I usually buy one nuke a game when I'm using the Daleks, but to be honest I've
only ever dropped it once.

Cheers

Beth

> At 10:59 12/03/01 +1100, Beth wrote:

Yes, and she had to drop it on me:(