@rjpeters70:
Cold War would be much harder to develop.
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The elephant in the room, nuclear weapons. You had devices ranging in size from 1Kt to 63Mt. You had delivery ranges from 5 miles to 13,000 miles.
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Timing: Which Cold War would you play? the one in 1950, where the Warsaw Pact grossly outnumbered NATO conventionally, but NATO had a small bomber delivered nuclear force? The one in 1962, which had enormous amounts of nuclear weapons on both sides, but a more significant advantage to the NATO side on range? The one in 1984, with mutually assured destruction, and a qualitatively superior (but quantitatively inferior) conventional NATO force?
Ultimately, my fear is that which ever side was losing the conventional fight, they’d resort to nuclear weapons very quickly (which is why there never was a World War III between NATO and WP). The most important thing to figure out would be nuclear combat in an A&A Cold War game.
63 Mt your crazy :p largest ever detonated was 56! Which was a scaled down version of 100mt and was air delivered! Crazy right?!
There can be game rules limiting it to round 8 you can use it or just after a nuclear salvo and both sides are limmited to only a few left and have to rebuild.
The only thing tha would limit it is ones imagination right? I’m sure with some time and thought invested it could be Ironed out right?
Or something like how Kamakazies are used in 1940 only a set amount on the table who knows lol