



In my eyes, nukes can serve two different roles - as a strategic weapon to weaken the enemy's economy, or as a tactical weapon to destroy units and weaken cities before conquering them.Īs a strategic weapon, cities getting nuked will lose half their population and some of their non-wonder buildings, and many improvements around them will be destroyed recovering from that can take a lot of turns. On the other hand, if there's only one other civ in play, a blitz action to conquer its capital is likely to succeed, especially when you're sitting on a stockpile of nukes. The United Nations is already in play, meaning that if one of the civilizations managed to obtain a majority in the vote, the game is over - though the only way to do that, when there are just two civs, is to bribe all the city-states to vote for you. If you still don't have a strategy for winning then stop, review the above conditions, and decide which one is best for you. This is not the place to get into details on all the above conditions, there's the manual and other sources for learning about that - but the key is, if it's already late game (and it is if the United Nations is in play), you should already have a strategy in mind.

