Allow Nukes to be Released Anywhere

[DrFlankySpanky]

I think the nuke experience in ground RB could be greatly improved to be more realistic and more fun.

Currently you can only drop the nuke if your plane flies over the ground battle area, which is not very realistic in my opinion.

If you are flying over the battle area, your nuke will may not even fall into the battle area unless you are flying tree top level. You can actually easily toss your nuke to fall down many kilometers from the battle and win, which is unrealistic.

My suggestion is that the nuke should be allowed to be dropped anywhere, but if it does not fall into the battle area, the game is not over. To be more specific: to end the game, the nuke would have to fall into the map area accessible by ground vehicles. (Or maybe the ground battle area plus a margin of ~1km to be more realistic)

I think this would greatly improve the nuke experience, we could toss nukes (using CCRP for example) while flying low and pulling up or we could simply drop it from high altitude. In both cases the carrier aircraft can keep farther away from the battlefield and potential SPAA threats. This would also be inline with how nuke tossing was planned to be used in real life to avoid damage to the carrier aircraft.

It would be also kind of funny to take the nuke plane back to reload if you missed, and for ground vehicles it would be cool to watch a missed nuke explode some kilometers away and still keep playing I think.

[Would you like to see this in-game?]

• Yes
• No

[gfdsa_killer]

Sure but do not delete the bomb release permission then. Because imagine dropping the nuke and just because it felt a couple of km off you dont get the win.

[Real_K_Soze]

@DrFlankySpanky

My suggestion is that the nuke should be allowed to be dropped anywhere, but if it does not fall into the battle area, the game is not over.

From a technical pov the usage of a tactical nuke above own troops is extremely unrealistic. The nukes should be dropped way behind the front line in order to disrupt enemy reinforcements - either direct by hitting assembling areas or by killing critical infrastructure like an airbase.

So dropping “anywhere” makes this dropping issue way more unrealistic than today…

[Cloudzy26160]

@Real K Soze@live

From a technical pov the usage of a tactical nuke above own troops is extremely unrealistic.

there was thread about that, but it didn’t gain much traction:

Small Idea for Improving the "nuke" game ender

We all know the nuke for ground. Get 2.5k sp, Spawn, destroy the map. This never really made sense for me as we end up taking our own troops out along with the enemy. Still winning instantly but not really “Realistic” from a war standpoint. So here’s the change, Instead of nuking our battle site, we nuke the enemy airfield/FOB. It’s far enough (Usually) away where most vehicles won’t instantly get vaporized, But still dealing a heavy blow to the enemy. To get into more detail though. First, o…

[Real_K_Soze]

@Cloudzy26160

there was thread about that, but it didn’t gain much traction:

Thx - i saw this and wrote in 2024:

@Real K Soze@live

Fully agree - but regarding the immersion factor this whole nuke concept is a joke for itself. Dropping a tactical nuke on a battlefield is nonsense as long as friendlies (and the dropping aircraft) are within the blast radius of the explosion.

There are a hell of unclassified documents from the 80ties available which showed when and how they were supposed to get used in combat.

So using tactical nukes was always part of BAI (Battlefield Air Interdiction) or AI, but never like in wt at the battlefield itself.

So imho the drop zone should be located way behind the frontline (= wt cap zones) and need a way more realistic drop sequence in order to give the dropping aircraft a realistic chance to escape the blast…