L`zard
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Joined: 6/3/2005 From: Oregon, USA Status: offline
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The logs I've viewed show some small hits, but after a point, one is looking at a 'down-wind dispersion', eh? While ToaW may not have had a very good 'scaling model' for nukes, wtf, anyone downwind was screwed one way or the other, hence the 'very large' template for nuke-centers. No, it's a bug - the behavior was clearly inconsistent with emprical evidence. Ralph fixed it in TOAW3. A quote vis 'nukes' from the help file: "After a nuclear attack, the target and nearby locations may become contaminated. The path of contamination outside the target is somewhat randomized, but can extend up to three times the attack radius from the actual attack location - generally to the east. Once contaminated, locations remain contaminated for the remainder of the scenario. Units in contaminated locations will suffer reductions in readiness every turn." @sstevens; If it's a bug, it really doesn't break the game for me. In fact, I've tried to max impact points just to achieve down-wind as the Nato player, and avoid same as the WP in a hot-seat game. As the Nato player, it seems but may not be true that hitting some 'nuked hexes' repetitively increased contamination. Somewhat hard to tell at the moment, as I'm still exploring exactly how much damage is created nuke-wise, and getting used to 'finding' all the nuke capable units in a given turn. I used to spend all my time trying to max-out my armor/mech, for the last run-throughs of 'Berlin Crisis' I've been trying to max 'nuclear holocaust' just to see how bad it could get. The two PO's are still better at destroying Europe than I am, so I guess I'm not 'Dr. Stangelove' yet, But I'm trying, LOL, even tho using up all the available strikes is the worst form of micro-management ( the PO doesn't seem to find a stack of 'nuke-cap' unless it's based on air-resources, but 'Stikes' any airbase with more than 1 unit almost as a SOP. This really reads just like ' Team Yankee by Harold Coyle. IE: the air war is extremely punitive. Players should really try to save air assets for this scen, lol. Damn good game, my man, tho I expect only 'Moderns' masters to be able to pbem this without taking a year out of thier lives, lol! I'll have to start some 'next war' sce's as a test befor answering the original question, eh?
< Message edited by L`zard -- 9/2/2006 10:23:44 AM >
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