Mine was probably experienced by all of you. I call it "Fields of Rail; A continent of Farm". I hate when a northern civ takes the responsibility of completely covering Siberia with a rail system. This allows a wonderful ease in capturing a civ in 1-5 turns. Also a civ might want to make Asia (including all mountain ranges) into a giant replica of a garden. This is stupid. Personally I think that during the modern ages you should be done with a large force of settlers after you have converted from Irrigation to Farmland and from Roads to Railroads. You might keep about 10 active to clean up pollution when it appears. Not an AI. An AI usually keeps about 200(!!) settlers active after it has finished convertion and uses them to cover Siberia with a replica of Grand Central Station (Huge rail station in U.S.). Then they wander around until a war knocks them off.

Tell me your experiences!

Building fortresses everywhere.

But, just to annoy you , I must add that if you shot a nuclear warhead normally it will happens... nothing more than some radiations or a minor explosion.

Nuclear weapons must be activated by some precise trigger sequence, just to reach exactly the critical mass and the waveform required to start the needed atomic reaction that make the explosion so big.

In fact, that's why USA had in the past some incident where nuclear bombs falls from bombers (still unarmed) and no explosion occurred.

For the same reason USA defence forces are trying to develop SDI to shoot down missiles before they reach their target.
They usually try to kill them just after their take-off because the missile is more vulnerable (more fuel on board, every stage still attached making a larger target).
Neverthless they can be forced to aim to missiles when they are in range, as near as they are.

No, I'm not a nuclear expert, really not. Take these info with any reserve you like!

We could explain the damage to the Mech Inf. as effects of radiation. You're bound to be hurt if you're doing something to 1 kilo of plutonium and you have no serious training to do so.

Also a Nuke should destroy the city unless it is size 10 or higher, then it is halved. Most nukes do so when detonated.

quote: Can't we all just imagine the little guys getting out of the Mech Inf. and disarming the bomb?

You watch way too much James Bond movies!

I was simply suggesting that IF you can shot a Nuclear bomb, with any AA bullet or missile, you don't necessary end with the big mushroom cloud.

As DarkCloud suggested, modern Mech.Infantry have light SAM system and, while intercepting any ICBM missile warhead is out of its reaching, a cruise nuclear missile can be shoteed down without too much difficulties.

Look, I don't want to test this on myself, so please don't fire a nuclear attack to Milano (Italy)!