Nukes cause EMP's

[olive ruin]

Don't know if it's a planned feature but Nukes cause EMP's. Obviously being close enoigh to the blast wave does kill you in game but I think that within a reasonable distance for gameplay a nuke going off should cause electronic problems at a minimum.

Maybe your jets hud and engines turn off or require a restart? Maybe all radar passing through that area is disrupted due to EM static.. maybe all ground units have a certain amount of time where they go offline due to electronic failures..

There's a lot of cool oppurtunities to include EMP tactics. IRL the nuclear football even has options to blow warheads in the stratosphere just to cause carnage through EMP's.

[dusk swan]

EMP is not a big factor for low altitude detonations. Especially not for military equipment which is probably radiation hardened. Even normal cars probably only need a restart if they are at such a distance that they are not destroyed by the blast or fire.

For higher altitude detonations (>50km) EMP is much more problematic indeed.

It would be cool if the ionized air/explosion of the nuclear explosion would block radar though.