@snagglefox said in Nukes should explode in the air:
Make the nuke a selectable unit with a Detonate ability, allow it to be detonated at any point in its path.
This might be open to some abuse - spot a SMD that will shoot you down? blow up early over some other structures / army to get at least some damage in.
Instead you could have a toggle on the launcher so the nuke missile explodes on proximity, to either land as it descends to get the maximum airburst size, or to experimentals and this would be a way to try and take down satellites. You would need to make the sat itself the expensive part instead of the novax centre itself to make this a good trade mass-wise.