Airplanes and Ships should have a small chance of destroying Nuke and Missiles

[Jim the First]

Airplanes and ships should have a small chance of destroying Nuke and Missiles, 2% for Nukes and 5% for Missiles.  Doubled if Blockaded or Air Superiority.

It makes little sense that a spy can kill a nuke and 500 planes can't.  Since SCUD hunting was a real thing.  It would force Nations with Nukes and Missiles to provide Air and Naval cover. Thanks

[Jacob Knox]

Buff planes even more? Literally insane.

[Jim the First]

Is it more insane than a nation with no army,  air force or navy using Nukes against a nation with a 1000 planes?  i am hoping For suggestions,

And your Nation has a real air force to provide air cover.

 

Edited June 6 by Jim the First

[Shakyr]

Lower the odds, but I see no issues with the basic premise.

There is a fundamental issue with the current war system, that you can have no military and still declare wars, fighting with nukes and missiles.

I'd actually propose three changes:

1. Add the option airplanes to target nuke/missile silos. Does less infrastructure damage, with the chance to destroy a nuke or missile.

2. If a nation has no military, ground attacks have a small chance of finding and destroying a nuke or missile silo.

3. Add options to naval battles to target various things (infrastructure, etc).

[Shiho Nishizumi]

On 6/6/2024 at 11:34 AM, Jim the First said:

Airplanes and ships should have a small chance of destroying Nuke and Missiles, 2% for Nukes and 5% for Missiles.  Doubled if Blockaded or Air Superiority.

It makes little sense that a spy can kill a nuke and 500 planes can't.  Since SCUD hunting was a real thing.  It would force Nations with Nukes and Missiles to provide Air and Naval cover. Thanks

SCUD hunting is the stupidest example you could bring up for it, given that it was an abysmal failure.

Regardless, the whole case use of nukes/missiles is to use when you have no conventional military. People that have conventional military will just use it because it's otherwise better in all respects (unlike real life where a nuclear weapon, even tactical, has unparalleled potency).

[Stanko1987]

No, it's a silly idea lol. They can already be destroyed through spy ops plus nukes and missiles cannot be destroyed the same day they are built, so introducing this wouldn't even work with the current mechanics and meta in place.