Map of CONUS Nuke strikes.

[kato13]

Here is the medium one

[TrailerParkJawa]

Did anyone play with any of the various online nuclear blast calculators to check damage vs. maps I've attached one I made for a 1.5 Mt blast against Richmond , California.

[Kilgs]

Much obliged!

And yes, the Sawyer AFB in Michigan has been closed down since 1995. And I am definitely shocked that Sault Ste Marie was not an industrial/resource target.

[kato13]

All of the rest of my maps (UK, USSR, Canada, North America) plus a few other unit maps are zipped in the file below

https://rapidshare.com/files/680650729/t2kmaps.zip

I think they all are (1.0/2.0/2.2) canon with the exception of the Czech map which corresponds to the DC Groups Czech Sourcebook.

Edit. Oh the Europe strike map is canon plus supposition.

[Targan]

And yes, the Sawyer AFB in Michigan has been closed down since 1995. And I am definitely shocked that Sault Ste Marie was not an industrial/resource target.

Any target you think should have been nuked can be nuked in your campaign without breaking canon, you just declare it to have been under the size threshold for it to have been mentioned in canon*.

*Unless it expressly states in canon that a given location was NOT nuked.

[Raellus]

Any idea why Memphis was hit Nothing jumps out as me as a strategic target there.

[kato13]

Any idea why Memphis was hit Nothing jumps out as me as a strategic target there.

Memphis is closer to the bottom left of TN. The hit is on Blytheville AFB, AR: 42nd Air Division Headquarters, 97th Strategic Bombing Wing (1 Mt).

[unkated]

Any idea why Memphis was hit Nothing jumps out as me as a strategic target there.

Graceland. An obvious strike to break American resolve: "We have destroyed your King's home!"

Or perhaps retaliation for the conventional strike that accidentally hit the Hermitage.

Uncle Ted

[Raellus]

Good one, Unkated. Thanks, Kato!

[WallShadow]

Any idea why Memphis was hit Nothing jumps out as me as a strategic target there.

Maybe the Rooskies were targetting Pigeon Forge and overshot.

[Olefin]

Did anyone play with any of the various online nuclear blast calculators to check damage vs. maps I've attached one I made for a 1.5 Mt blast against Richmond , California.

I looked at the Richmond strike - and I am leaning more toward it being multiple nukes hitting the same target instead of a single 1.5MT blast - if you look at the Urban Guerrilla module you can see that there is a precedent - i.e. the strike against Cape Canaveral that was not just one large nuke but a series of small ones - there are other mentions as well of the larger strikes actually being multiple smaller strikes all hitting around the same time

[Olefin]

Any target you think should have been nuked can be nuked in your campaign without breaking canon, you just declare it to have been under the size threshold for it to have been mentioned in canon*.

*Unless it expressly states in canon that a given location was NOT nuked.

For instance it states specifically that the only nuclear strikes in PA were the ones near Philly in canon - thus that means that Harrisburg, Carlisle, York (the BAE plant that made the M109/M8/M88/Bradley, Caterpillar, Harley), Allentown (the Mack assembly plant at Macungie), McConnellsburg (JLG assembly plant that was probably converted to military production), etc.. are all unaffected - thus the Soviets left a lot of targets untouched - and thats just PA

[jimbo4795]

I can see two reasons to target Memphis.
1-Naval Air Station Millington was a major training base up until 1993 and then became a "support activity". It is less than 20 miles from downtown Memphis.
2-There are two major bridges over the Mississippi river in Memphis, if they are taken out it leaves a 125 mile gap with no bridges over the river.

[Legbreaker]

1-Naval Air Station Millington was a major training base up until 1993 and then became a "support activity". It is less than 20 miles from downtown Memphis.

And given the huge call up of manpower, unseen since WWII, training centres would be overflowing with recruits, with new ones established and old ones quickly refurbished and brought back online.
And then there's the whole T2K being written before the place was downgraded thing....

[Olefin]

Guys keep in mind - limited nuclear strikes - in other words they didnt hit every vital bridge, power station, city, base, etc.. - if they had then it would have been a no holds barred all out exchange - which is not what happened

So most likely most of those places you are saying got hit by nukes - didnt

i.e. if they didnt hit NYC, if they didnt hit Boston, if they didnt hit Harrisburg or York (the bridges across the Susquehanna, the BAE plant that makes a ton of military vehicles, etc..), if they didnt hit Miami then most likely a lot of places were left untouched

keep in mind that a lot of what they hit were refineries and they didnt even get all of them - thus a LIMITED strike