Years pass, people still propose nuke subs to be reworked into billy nuke launcher...
I did try that in Nomads and both the result and feedback I recieved weren't really good.
Let's be short:
- Most naval units have damn TMD with huge range. Billy nuke as it is won't break through single cruiser/battleship/ect defence.
- Naval units are spread too much so you wouldnt kill many units pre missile meaning its inefficient against t1-t2 things.
- T3 units are too tanky. Billy nuke would be inefficient against Battleships even if it somehow hits them.
- Stacking Billy nuke with cruiser/torrent missile valley leaves little to no chance to defend the land firebase.
- Single Loyalist would kill your nuke sub and everything nearby because FAF can't copy EQ features since 2016.
Current nuke subs are fine as they are for FFA games. Much easier to hide, much harder to understand who launched it. In most cases it is used for cybran because stealth is too cool, but sometimes could be used by other factions. This IS what should be done for all factions.
IMO if nuke subs needed a billy, they should get it instead of their TML weapon (most of the time this TML is useless anyway), not instead of actual nuke.