It also makes the owner unaffected by Nuclear Embargo. The Space Program makes missiles, including Nuclear Missiles, created 100% faster and 50% cheaper.The default increase is 50 Knowledge and 60 Oil for the second unit created for the Nuclear Missile, and 75 Knowledge and 75 Oil for the Nuclear ICBM, increasing further with every new unit until the cost cap is reached, which for military units is of +125% their original base value. Nuclear Missiles' production cost increases progressively with every other Nuclear Missiles on the field or currently in production. The Future Technology Missile Shield causes the Armageddon timer value to increase by two. When the timer hits zero, Armageddon occurs, and all players lose the game due to nuclear doomsday. In addition, the player will receive the Nuclear Embargo status which prevents them from buying/selling resources at the Market for a period of time, which can be avoided by building the Space Program wonder. Every time a missile is fired, the Armageddon timer value decreases by one. Nuclear Missiles deal tremendous damage, but trigger an Armageddon 'timer'.

America has it, Russia has it, Britain has it, China has it, India has it, etc.Oil Nuclear Missiles are a type of missile that, unlike Conventional Missiles, are much more destructive in both area and extent of damage and, in the real world, has severe damaging effects on both people and the environment that can last decades, centuries, or even millennia after the nuclear war. Because its not something one nation has. Sometimes the capital, sometimes a city which looks to be making even more resource gathering for the opponet, and sometimes the city cloest to my army to go in and take it.ДЄnd I just have to say, Space Program is the greatest wonder EVAR! But I really think it should be a technology you can research. The capital is worthless to nuke, unless it is a Stronghold for resources and unit production. If the army is pitiful and weak, and yours is ready to roll, nuke the defensive positions in your way of invasion. Then when I get a chance to get another nuke, I will launch it at one of his cities. Use the nuke to wipe out their army, retake the city and rebuild it. Its usually in Modern Age that I get nuked, so I use the nuke I have ready to bomb the military buildings he has closest to my border. I mean yesterday I had a opponent nuke my army and I still had a lot of infantry survive after being hit at ground zero.ДЄs for where to launch it. I think the Modern age nuke is way too weak. And then ofcourse I will not launch a nuke unless someone else does. Move your army when a nuclear missile is launched if your army has been stationary for some time. When you play versus other players, some basic strategic choices you should make are to: Spread out your military buildings so they are not all destroyed in a single nuclear strike. When I am facing an enemy which is equal, I will not start researching nukes unless he does. While AIs do not use nuclear missiles in a strategic way, other players will. Sometimes its 200,000, then its 500,000 and then its 350,000 and then its over a Million!ДЄnyways, regarding nukes. Truman was a freaking idiot who couldn't even keep his figures of casualties the same number. It would have ended very soon if we had attacked the mainland. World War II would not have gone on forever. Nobody wants to destroy the planet we live in. I believe also, in the real world that nation will use 1 to 2 max ICBM. This forces everyone to go for conventional warfare. To take out competent enemy army, using ICBM is damn effective because of the larger area effect.ДЄnother tricky strategy is to fire your ICBM a number of times until the counter holds at 1. That's why usually I will build array of missile silo. Using ICBM is far to expensive to accomplish. Stop them from researching further counter missile technologies, universities must be removed. 9 out of 10 games I can see players do not build military buildings aounrd capital and the second city both of which are economy centres of the nation. You may consider using nuke if the other side has already reached Modern or Information age.

In that case, you may use cruise missiles to remove their libraries and that would be more than sufficient. You do not want to or need not to use nuke if your opponents are 2 age behind.

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