Nukes Anyone?

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**ChrisWWII**

I want to know how you made that, and more importantly can I buy one from you?

**TyraelVladinhurst**

ChrisWWII wrote:I want to know how you made that, and more importantly can I buy one from you?

seconded

**DiRT52**

Exergy wrote:
and Nostramo, Barabrus, Prospero, Cthonia, Colchis
The alpha legion and world eaters have no listed homeworld, still 7/9 traitor planets gone for sure aint bad.
The Dark Angels homeworld of Caliban and the Imperial Fists original home world were also both destroyed.

Imperial Fists home world is Holy Terra I believe Terra is intact

**Lord PoPo**

Fafnir wrote:Deathstrike Missile

/thread

this

**stompydakka**

That is an AMAZING mushroom cloud thing!!!

**TyraelVladinhurst**

DiRT52 wrote:
Exergy wrote:
and Nostramo, Barabrus, Prospero, Cthonia, Colchis
The alpha legion and world eaters have no listed homeworld, still 7/9 traitor planets gone for sure aint bad.
The Dark Angels homeworld of Caliban and the Imperial Fists original home world were also both destroyed.

Imperial Fists home world is Holy Terra I believe Terra is intact

as is Chemos and Olympia

**Veldrain**

http://www.games-workshop.com/MEDIA_CustomProductCatalog/m2440055_Chaos_Space_Marines_Datasheet_-_Doomsday.pdf

If you really want to use a nuke, just use this. It's even funnier when it blows up in your face.

**Doomthumbs**

That ^ is a great fireball.

**Cortez667**

chaos0xomega wrote:
Cortez667 wrote:
chaos0xomega wrote:Nukes are kinda pointless. They are an outdated technology in the 40k universe. They are actually BANNED by the Imperium of Mankind, and besides that, they pale in comparison to a lot of the other weapons that the various factions are throwing around. Besides that, the nukes you're talking about, the kind that have such a large blast radius, are strategic weapons. You wouldn't go throwing those around on an active battlefield. For that you would use small-scale tactical nuclear weapons, which the 10" blast template could suitably represent.

If you really want to play with full-scale nukes in a game, then dump gasoline or lighter fluid all over the table, and throw a match at it. Done.

BANNED? where did you find that fluff? The Inquisistion uses planet-killing orbital strikes,....but not nukes. Yeah, yeah, becuase that makes total sense. NOT. Oh, and the 10" blast marker would'nt nearly represent the effect of a nuclear weapon. (fallout, side effects, etc.)

Here I thought it was common knowledge. Read up on the DKoK. Part of the reason why they are so repentant is because they used banned nuclear weapons to end the civil war on their planet. And yes, a 10" blast marker is more than suitable to simulate the effects of a small scale tactical nuke. People often overestimate the effects of some of the smaller weapons that were developed in the Cold War. We had nuclear RPG's for heavens sake. The fallout/side effects of a small warhead like that would be fairly minimal, and effects like fallout wouldn't really come into play during the timescale of a normal game of 40k/apoc.

Also, to those who say that nukes are banned? One word: Krieg.

Read up on the fluff again there big guy.

They used them, and they got in big trouble for it.

Well, I'm put in my place. I stand corrected. (...and whats funny is that I just read "dead man walking". guess I failed to put 2 and 2 together. LOL)

**blaktoof**

rogue trader had rules for using different weapons of mass destruction in your army.

Should see if you can get ahold of the rules.

**Cortez667**

Grakmar wrote:There's nukes in 40k.

Why else do you think the game ends so suddenly after turn 6ish?

That just made my day!

**Necanor**

This thread is steering out of control.

**Cortez667**

Necanor wrote:This thread is steering out of control.

Indeed. I love how we gamers can argue over the realism of something that is essentially make-believe.

**Necanor**

Cortez667 wrote:
Necanor wrote:This thread is steering out of control.

Indeed. I love how we gamers can argue over the realism of something that is essentially make-believe.

Agreed.

**ChrisWWII**

To some of us, it's fun to debate the fluff. That's why people write fanfiction, and versus threads get so much heat. Fluff is there for a reason, and it kinda detracts from the fun of the game when you're throwing around stuff that the fluff says can't happen.

**nevertellmetheodds**

That is a awsome mushroom cloud. Just tell em that nukes are too big for the table and not generally used except in some very extreme situations. Use vortex missiles.

**TyraelVladinhurst**

nevertellmetheodds wrote:That is a awsome mushroom cloud. Just tell em that nukes are too big for the table and not generally used except in some very extreme situations. Use vortex missiles.

true and also untrue. nukes were used back in 2005 games day, some massive Ork game my buddy ended up with the template they used for them

**Necanor**

nevertellmetheodds wrote:That is a awsome mushroom cloud. Just tell em that nukes are too big for the table and not generally used except in some very extreme situations. Use vortex missiles.

Actually nukes are too weak compared to virus bombs or other exterminatus.

**ChrisWWII**

Note the size of the table compared to the size of a planet, even on 40k scale. A nuke is weaker than what the Imperium uses to conduct Exterminatus, but if your tabletop got hit by a cycolonic torpedo everybody be just as did as if they'd been nuked.

40k is just too small scale for the difference between nukes and other Imperial WMDs to become important.

**Necanor**

True.

**mray01**

why not just use the rules for when a titan blows up - 6d6 inches take a destroyer hit...

**demented_gamer**

mmm? maybe some sort of sattelite laser?

**ChrisWWII**

That might work for a small tactical nuke, but it's far too small for a bigger one.

**Cortez667**

ChrisWWII wrote:To some of us, it's fun to debate the fluff. That's why people write fanfiction, and versus threads get so much heat. Fluff is there for a reason, and it kinda detracts from the fun of the game when you're throwing around stuff that the fluff says can't happen.

Oh, I quite agree. Debating the fluff is one of my favorite pass times at my FLGS. The fluff is what makes GW games (with the exception of LOTR) so great. But sometimes its necessary to take a step back and remind ourselves that, while WH40k can be a way of life for some of us, at the end of the day, it is still just a game.

That being said, some of these discuusions tend to get a little heated at times, and it really should'nt get taken that far.

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...And no, the Imperium would'nt bother with nukes. As its been stated already, they've FAR more destructive WMDs than a mere nuclear warhead.

**demented_gamer**

I like the idea but, in the 41st millennium nukes are far too primitive.

**Janthkin**

<thread terminated, before it's undead rampage can lead to a World War Z scenario>

demented_gamer, we try not to reawaken threads that have had more than a month since their last post.