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Originally posted by jimbob55:
I am fairly sure that mines take damage from the shields. I've had enemy ships waltz through my somewhat heavy minefields and take no internal hits whatsoever (not organic races). The ships had about 1500 shields, I thought they were taking the hits...
OK, if shields aren't active in minefields, how about armour skipping mines... muwhahahaha. I'd have to make them REAL expensive or big, or both.
Now that might work. It's not an 'exclusive' damage type like ionic disperser, it WILL destroy the ship -- and faster than normal mines! The way to test it, I guess, is to put just one or two mines with this warhead in a sector and run a ship with enough organic armor to take the hits through it, if it's destroyed -- or at least some internal components are damaged -- you know the armor was skipped.
This w ould be a logical tech for crystalline races. Hmm, I wonder if there's a good component picture for a 'shard warhead' in the components directory...