Destiny/TheGuy wrote:I don't like naval nuking. On most games I have played, people don't use it, but some players do, and it irritates me. You have to constantly monitor your fleet to make sure no nukes are coming in on it. A lot of times I concentrate my attention on one area and ignore my fleet if I'm sure it will be able to survive, for example, if I have already defeated the enemy fleet. Naval nukes makes the game less relaxing and more irritating.
Naval nuking also has a steep learning curve. Everything else in Defcon is relatively easy to learn. With naval nuking, until you're an "expert sniper", you'll be nuking the whales time after time. I figure that since I don't like it, I'm not going to try to learn.
Well, I would say it is like most things in Defcon, easy to learn but hard to master (mixed with a fair share of luck).
As Ace pointed out, you don't have to actually hit anything to make it effective. Droping a number of bombs on a strait, for instance, makes anyone hesitate about sending ships up that way. Further, just by making them deal with moving their fleets means that they are not acting offensively, but reacting defensively to you. As for irritating people, it irritates me when people nuke my silos, yet it remains an annoying fact of the game that it is a good tactic.
That being said, no one says you have to like or use every strategy that comes along, and none are an "end all" move that must be used to win.
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