Yeah: The Mammoth Mark II was badass to a T.The Mammoth Mk. 2's main railguns are also much faster-firing in the cutscenes than they are in game (for obvious balance reasons), and are visibly two double-barreled weapons with four shots on tap.
Yeah: The Mammoth Mark II was badass to a T.The Mammoth Mk. 2's main railguns are also much faster-firing in the cutscenes than they are in game (for obvious balance reasons), and are visibly two double-barreled weapons with four shots on tap.
After the First Tiberium War, Nod decided to weaponize tiberium instead -- that's why we see Cluster Missiles and Chemical Missiles being used (the latter of which had a souped up version which could terraform entire continents). However, they did still have nukes in some fashion, as that's what destroyed Vega's base (basically Kane couldn't deal with his idiocy any more). In the Nod ending, they also had mobile ICBM launchers which were presumably nuclear, too (they basically succeeded with this plan in a fashion seventeen years later when they destroyed the Philadelphia with a nuke).
I said Nod had Mobile ICBM Launchers, not that the one used to destroy Vega's base was an ICBM. I always believed that "emergency deployment" was said by Kane for his lackeys to fire a nuke double-time at Vega's base because it'd just been overrun by GDI.Given the explicitly stated seven-minute flight time for the nuke that destroyed Vega's base, it had to be a medium-range ballistic missile at a range of approximately a thousand kilometers, not an ICBM from further out. Were it not for Kane in the cutscene ordering, "Emergency deployment, immediate launch", I would have argued it was more likely a nuclear self-destruct in the base than a missile strike.
Technically, you could *still* argue for that, if you handwave Kane's "emergency deployment" order as being prepping a transport for himself to evacuate wherever he was communicating with Vega from, against the risk of GDI back-tracking the transmission. But that's admittedly a stretch.
I said Nod had Mobile ICBM Launchers, not that the one used to destroy Vega's base was an ICBM. I always believed that "emergency deployment" was said by Kane for his lackeys to fire a nuke double-time at Vega's base because it'd just been overrun by GDI.
The illogical implication of Nod apparently having a global SRBM/MRBM network but never actually using it is why I suggest the nuclear self destruct theory, even though it requires an awkward reinterpretation of Kane's orders.
Yeah, that is a bit of a problem I never could work out, too. Were the Cluster and Chemical Missiles not ready by that time? Was he holding out on using the nukes as last resorts, if GDI began to win? Did he lock control of them directly to himself because he simply didn't trust his subordinate generals (e.g. Vega) or if they'd come under the control of other splinter factions, like Hassan? We know Nod's generals after the First Tiberium War went to town with nukes (the Covert Operation's missions had post-TW1 Nod factions using nukes as a running theme), so maybe he was worried about a similar scenario playing out again.No, I understood what you meant. I agree that is the straightforward interpretation of Kane's dialogue; what I'm pointing out is that seven minutes is too short for an ICBM fired from Nod's main base at Cairo, that short a flight time would actually be right on the line between the long end of SRBMs and the short end of MRBMs.
The illogical implication of Nod apparently having a global SRBM/MRBM network but never actually using it is why I suggest the nuclear self destruct theory, even though it requires an awkward reinterpretation of Kane's orders.