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Originally Posted by RN7
I think I'll follow canon as you initially did. What other targets in the world were nuked on more than one occasion? Exact details do matter to many of us.
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And I still am. There is NOTHING to say there is only one warhead and it dropped on any particular day. It specifically states "not necessarily as a single weapon".
What I am saying is in this case it's an open playing field. The details are impossible to pin down. It's up to the individual GM to say what did, or did not happen within the few guidelines we have on this particular issue.
Was it one warhead? Maybe. But it's also just as possible there were multiple warheads. We just don't know for sure.
Most of the likely Soviet missiles carried multiple warheads, and the distance between targets of each warhead is limited to a few hundred kilometres. There are only a handful of other targets within that possible area (all 0.5MT), so where did the other warheads go? Are Soviet missiles equipped with warheads of varying yields all within the same bus, or is it more likely that two 0.5MT warheads hit the Norfolk area? My money is on the latter, but that's just my opinion and I freely admit that may not be the case - we'll never know.
As for conventional weapons attacks, do the Soviets not possess sub, ship or aircraft launched cruise missiles just like many other nations? Conventional weapons are possible. They're just not as effective as a nuke, but may be exactly what's required at certain points through the war.