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From: zzz@mit-eddie.UUCP (Mike Konopik)
Newsgroups: net.games.emp
Subject: Re: Why Nukes?
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Date: Wed, 2-Nov-83 23:20:55 EST
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Posted: Wed Nov  2 23:20:55 1983
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Nukes are great. Without them the game becomes a slow and inevitable CRAWL to
destruction, rather than a "race". You use military invasions and large naval
forces instead of blinding blitzkrieg nuke attacks. Also, it's nice to go to
sleep at night, comfortable in knowing that if you're nuked, you have arranged
to have all yours launched automagically in retaliation to destroy everybody
completely. Also, with nukes you can wipe out a country's entire fleet if it's
in one concentrated task force only using one 1-megaton nuke. Otherwise, you'd
have to scramble all your fleet and fighters to intercept it (lots of stuff
to guarantee that they stand up to the attacking forces). What a pain when you
can just sit back and casually lob a nuke into the middle of the fleet! (yawn,
hand me another Moosehead, Mel ...)

				-Mike

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