The day the bombs fall.

[orangebandguy]

Ok, so imagine you are one of the pilots of the planes that bombed America or China in Fallout 3.
While simultaneously the other side are bombing your country's cities with their nukes.

What would you do and how would you feel, knowing that you have no home to go back to and what would be your next course of action? Would you survive the holocaust that follows as the world is enveloped by a shroud of radioactive darkness?

I've always wondered what happened to the pilots, since theres no way of finding out I turn to you for your wildest conspiracy theories.

 

[orangebandguy]

Really? I guess this is why I don't post threads.

 

[Kollega]

Well... i dunno. I'd probably say "Fuck all this" and fly off to Siberia or Canada instead. But i'd feel kinda sad about world being ruined and civilization coming to such a downer ending, and all that.

Or, you know, just ride the bomb like the guy below me. Thanks for reminding of that possibility!

 

[Sarge499]

Eh? Fly to Australia, there's no mention of it so ill just assume my country is nice and safe in our hemisphere.

 

[orangebandguy]

This is what would happen to me.


BEST. DEATH. EVER.

I wondered if someone would bring up Major Kong.

 

[thiosk]

The days of the nuclear bomber wing are thankfully long past. In the Strangelove era, the strategy was to send hundreds of nuclear-armed bombers with the most powerful bombs available. The reason for this was that air defense is dense enough that you gotta make sure that the one bomb that gets through counts. So, you may come in on a stealth bomber and deliver a much smaller, tactical warhead in the 21st century, but its much more likely that you would be in a silo and would turn a key.

In a major exchange of nuclear weapons, nuclear launch facilities are always primary targets for strikes, so your future would be living in the shelter deep underground until you can re-emerge.

Also:

Ground control to Major Kong:
Your circuit's dead, there's something wong.
Can you hear me Major Kong?
Can you hear me Major Kong?
Can you hear me Major Kong? Can you ...

 

[Nickolai77]

I would have thought they would have used nuclear missiles? Even if that was the case, there is the question as to what all the submariners will do..

No matter, i fly southwards to some of the pacific islands and live in island paradise. Same goes if i was the captain of a nuclear submarine.

 

[Nemu]

Since I find it difficult to imagine how characters in a video game about a war that didn't happen "felt", I guess I'll go ahead and say:

I landed in Tunguska and wondered where the aliens were, then I looked for a bunker and a nice sammich.


I was always more of a infantry type of girl, anyway...

 

[orangebandguy]

I would have thought they would have used nuclear missiles? Even if that was the case, there is the question as to what all the submariners will do..

No matter, i fly southwards to some of the pacific islands and live in island paradise. Same goes if i was the captain of a nuclear submarine.

Well seeing as the unexploded bomb in Megaton is has no propulsion system bomb, it had to have been dropped.

 

[Amnestic]

Don my hazard suit, pump my shotgun and get medieval on all those commie Chinese!

 

[wooty]

I know its old, but I can sort of imagine this one

 

[ctrl-alt-postal]

I know its old, but I can sort of imagine this one

From oz....WTF???


I guess I'd find a nice pacific island....

 

[Pimppeter2]

Video

Hahahahh, I haven't seen this thing in ages!

 

[Nickolai77]

I would have thought they would have used nuclear missiles? Even if that was the case, there is the question as to what all the submariners will do..

No matter, i fly southwards to some of the pacific islands and live in island paradise. Same goes if i was the captain of a nuclear submarine.

Well seeing as the unexploded bomb in Megaton is has no propulsion system bomb, it had to have been dropped.

Yeah thats true. Strange though considering that America had got to the moon in a rocket in the Fallout 3 universe, yet everyone is still using free fall bombs. Possible flaw in the Fallout universe here perhaps?

Still, i would drop my payload and fly of too Tahiti, assuming that is nobodys military base.