Per canon, this is how bad Warsaw gets it.

[raketenjagdpanzer]

Just in case you were running Ruins of Warsaw, and wanted to see what a Trident-II D-5 spread would do to a modern city.

http://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/?t...e6db5d80a60135

Two of the blasts virtually overlap, so varying damage there is irrelevant, which is why there's no 6th blast ring.

Also not shown are the sites where warheads hit "military units to the southeast"

[Cdnwolf]

Using your scenario it looks like the Vistula river takes a direct hit... I wonder what effect it had on the river?

[raketenjagdpanzer]

Originally Posted by Cdnwolf

Using your scenario it looks like the Vistula river takes a direct hit... I wonder what effect it had on the river?

If they were airbursts, other than temporarily boiling away much of the water, not much. If they were groundbursts, they'd slightly divert the river into the new "ponds" created by blast craters.

[Raellus]

Thanks for posting the link, Rak. I'm starting a unit on the Cold War with my 11th graders next week and I'll be using the nukemap to show them what a nuke could do to their hometown. I'll think that'll get them interested.

As for RoW, clearly, the authors did not do their homework. That's something a well-informed GM could adjust for his/her campaign.

[Tegyrius]

In their defense, a lot of that homework was a lot harder to do thirty years ago.

- C.

[Raellus]

Originally Posted by Tegyrius

In their defense, a lot of that homework was a lot harder to do thirty years ago.

Very true. My statement reads a lot harsher than it was intended.

[raketenjagdpanzer]

1.5 megaton ground-burst at MacDill AFB, Tampa, FL USA:

http://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/?l...&zm=11&kt=1500

Tampa Bay has an average depth of approximately 3m (12ft); it isn't mentioned but given the overpressure from the explosion it is likely a great portion of the bay would, for a few moments, cease to exist. Much of it would be flash-vaporized and fall on the rest of Hillsborough County and points west and northwest as heavy water rain fallout. Seawater rushing back in after the initial detonation would hit the sun-hot surface of the tarmac and flash into even more radioactive steam.

The comment in...I want to say it's Howling Wilderness? Or may be another module...about exotic wild animals that had "escaped from a theme park"? Yeah, Busch Gardens, Tampa is about 5 miles from the outer edge of the blast. Those animals would be dead within a day from the 3rd degree burns they'd suffered. If not, then from fallout, and failing that from starvation if they were locked in enclosures.

[Matt Wiser]

MacDill was an air burst, according to HW.

[Schone23666]

Originally Posted by raketenjagdpanzer

Just in case you were running Ruins of Warsaw, and wanted to see what a Trident-II D-5 spread would do to a modern city.

http://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/?t...e6db5d80a60135

Two of the blasts virtually overlap, so varying damage there is irrelevant, which is why there's no 6th blast ring.

Also not shown are the sites where warheads hit "military units to the southeast"

One word: OUCH.