Finaly! realised the use of Radiation Bomb

[Taera]

Ok, i've started a new game today and it finaly came to my why there is the Radiation Bomb, a question which i've been thinking over for the Last half year.

it does not seem to be a very effective weapon indeed - it is not as effective as plague and does not damage the planet in any way, instead making it useless to *you* when (if) you capture it in any way. Indeed.

But have you ever considered this is the doomsday weapon of the early game? So you research planetary weapon on the first turn, build an escort on the second. And if there are any aliens nearby you just run the escort on suicide mission, launching that small bomb against the enemy. Boom. Now their probably only resource production planet has its condition around DEADLY meaning a penalty to happines (IIRC), as well as the race would be unable to use the population from the planet to hasten the pop. growth of the other planets meaning ever less production...

Thats an early game. If your enemy is within 10 turns they are probably dead for the future as their deadly homeworld will realy slow their expansion.

On later stages this bomb can be used on those developing planets that are too well defended to take on direct assault. Ruin their pop. growth and happiness and it will be an easier target later on.

This also should prove to bea much more powerful weapon in Proportions, never played that yet.