Board Thread:Battle Nations Discussion/@comment-81.149.77.244-20130526085029/@comment-4632427-20130717040230

Fix? It's not broken. According to the in-game story, the chemical agent used in chemical weapons was manufactured at a research facility in the Northern Frontier, but when Ramsey goes there to stop the Rebels from using it, he smashes the place up beyond recovery. Floyd doesn't know how to make the chemical agent himself. Thus, the only way to get chem vials is to steal ones the Rebels already looted/manufactured before Ramsey got there. Rebels carrying vials can be found in the Heartland, though the drop rate is comparable to Teeth and Skulls.

Or you can raid/occupy a friend's chem buildings, or do a lot of Fight a Friend PvP. If you have no in-game friends and no plans to ever get any, then you're going to have a harder time playing social games like BN, that's pretty much unavoidable.