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From: alb@alice.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.games.emp
Subject: Re: Why Nukes?
Message-ID: <2287@alice.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 2-Nov-83 19:45:19 EST
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Posted: Wed Nov  2 19:45:19 1983
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Nukes are a part of the game.  In almost every game I
have been in (as God and as player), as soon as one country
started to use them, everyone got in the act (whether
deliberately or out of automatic retaliation), and the
worlds were totally gone within about two weeks.  They
add tension to the game, granted, but they also make it
possible to actually end a game instead of dragging a
dead one on for months.