Is it possible to overwhelm anti-nukes?

3 nukes launched in quick succession per antinuke is enough. Though you'll need at least 2 trinities to do it, more for each additional anti. Don't know the ratio of nukes to antinukes for optimal bypassing off the top of my head though.

This is testable with cheats in a skirmish. My results after messing around for a few minutes:

As far as I know one Trinity should never be able to break an unhindered antinuke, no matter how many missiles you fire.

One Trinity can defeat a Zenoed antinuke, but you will need to fire many nukes in quick succession (probably at least four).

Two Trinities is a bit weird. At long range the nukes don't spend as much time inside the antinuke's actual firing range since their angle is closer to horizontal, so just firing two nukes at once can score a hit at the close edge of the antinuke's interception radius, or maybe get close enough to kill the antinuke even if the nuke doesn't hit the ground.

When firing multiple nukes from two Trinities at short range, sometimes the antinuke gets confused and intercepts a nuke that is physically closer but further away from impact due to the nuke missile trajectory.

Two Trinities firing one nuke each should comfortably defeat a Zenoed antinuke.

Three Trinities reliably defeats one antinuke.

Behaviour of multiple nukes against multiple antinukes, and attempting to fire a nuke beyond an antinuke rather than at it or in front of it, is left as an exercise for the reader.

it is much more cost effective to just kill, disable or disarm antis OR do something else then nuke with the metal after the first one.

having stockpiled a single nuke (and not building more) is always an active threat fixing the enemy metalwise and limiting their an offensive option too.

instead of "fixing" even more metal on your side to bruteforce a single lonely anti (which is mostly unlikely), let the enemy fix metal in multiple antis and use your money to build army, or even a superweapon to snipe the antis.

quote: I wonder if anti-nukes will attempt to over kill a nuke resulting in multiple firing at once. Has anyone tested this?

It is difficult to prove a negative, but I am fairly sure that if this does happen it is a bug. I am not aware of ever having seen it happen.

And yes, it is pretty difficult to justify actually brute forcing an antinuke in a real game. You would be spending nearly superweapon amounts of metal for a strategy which is denied by just building a backup antinuke. The one situation I could imagine occurring in practice is that a team might build two Trinities on opposite sides of the map (to maximise angles for avoiding antinukes) and then use them both to defeat a single anti which can only be hit by Zeno.

quote: For example, I could see this used to kill a superweapon.

Nuke doesn't kill SL or Zenith, but it could kill the grid.
Unless they have a funnel.

Perhaps test what happens when an antinuke dies. I have noticed that only one anti-nuke activates when a nuke launches, and it does it as soon as the launch happens. If an antinuke is killed or stunned after it activates, does another activate to take over? Or does the nuke just go through all subsequent antis?

Perhaps I am misremembering and the issue was since fixed. Or maybe it just applied to antinukes that fired but were themselves intercepted (by an Athena).

Possibly not anymore.