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Originally posted by Jubala:
I said before and I'll say it again, special damage mines do not work regardless of what damage you make them do. ...mines that only destroy a specific part on an enemy ship will keep going boom until they are all gone...
Yeah, but supposing you were willing to live with that limitation, would they work at all? I mean, if you mined your entire system with just a few in each sector, would you keep taking out one enemy ship's engines each time his fleet moved? So he'd either have to leave a trail of crippled ships or else stop and repair them? Sounds like a nice delaying tactic to me, and would be immune to heavily shielded "minefield busters" which take out entire regular minefields.