So - what you failed to realize in your surrender is that I had a hidden settler that I "allowed" the barbarians to take about 15 turns ago. Surprise surprise, my Marines finally made the trek across the deep blue and liberated them. I was able to found another capital, and since I had $3K in the kitty, upgrade it quite handily.
I felt pretty smug, ready to take screenshots and all.
Then I clicked "next turn" and watched my new capital get bombarded with 3 nukes. Awesome. Fine, you win.
I really dislike that there is absolutely nothing that you can do to shoot a nuke out of the before it hits. No missile defense system, no patrolling aircraft, nothing. If they have a nuke and target your city, you're toast.
@CrazyJoe said:
I really dislike that there is absolutely nothing that you can do to shoot a nuke out of the before it hits. No missile defense system, no patrolling aircraft, nothing. If they have a nuke and target your city, you're toast.
This comment opened the rabbit-hole for me (I saw 'patrolling aircraft' and was like 'wtf no, is that a thing?'). Turns out there are quite a few systems for dealing with nukes, but they all have low-ish success rates, or (other than the interceptor and thaad) have very limited ranges.
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I felt pretty smug, ready to take screenshots and all.
Then I clicked "next turn" and watched my new capital get bombarded with 3 nukes. Awesome. Fine, you win.
http://kotaku.com/why-gandhi-is-such-an-asshole-in-civilization-1653818245
This comment opened the rabbit-hole for me (I saw 'patrolling aircraft' and was like 'wtf no, is that a thing?'). Turns out there are quite a few systems for dealing with nukes, but they all have low-ish success rates, or (other than the interceptor and thaad) have very limited ranges.
http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2013-03/us-says-it-could-stop-north-korean-missile-how - the most concise overview article I found about some of the systems. Read deeper into each one - I like the THAAD myself.
Civ needs a bump. Help.