Nuclear weapons IN SPACE!

SuedodeuS · 10-16-2010, 10:10 PM

Legality to start. If using a nuclear weapon - even in space - is a war crime, players are going to very much be hesitant to pull out the nukes. Exceptional point defense lasers (and/or making it very common to have huge batteries of small point defense lasers) might be able to make projectiles unviable, so you'd have to use your own beam weapons to take out their point defenses to reliably be able to nuke them - but by that point their ship is probably disabled already!

10-16-2010, 10:10 PM	#2
SuedodeuS Join Date: Sep 2008	Re: Nuclear weapons IN SPACE! Legality to start. If using a nuclear weapon - even in space - is a war crime, players are going to very much be hesitant to pull out the nukes. Exceptional point defense lasers (and/or making it very common to have huge batteries of small point defense lasers) might be able to make projectiles unviable, so you'd have to use your own beam weapons to take out their point defenses to reliably be able to nuke them - but by that point their ship is probably disabled already! __________________ Quos deus vult perdere, prius dementat. Latin: Those whom a god wishes to destroy, he first drives mad.