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Originally posted by Taqwus:
- Satellites.
Immobile. Weak. Cannot be shot by CSMs, but that appears to be a bug judging from the CSM description. Cheap, 'tho, and they can be stationed at warp points...
- Mines.
Might actually be possible -- mine your own planet, since IIRC you may be able to move through your *own* minefields freely, and they're pretty nasty.
Yep, it's possible to mine your own planets. You can also launch undeployed mines, satellites, and fighters after combat actually begins, although the usefulness of mines in tactical combat is seriously questionable.
Mines work great if you've deployed them in advance though and, I agree, putting them at the incoming warp points is almost always a better defense than trying to cover every planet.
Besides, which is more deadly? 50 mines at one warp point or 10 each orbitting 5 separate planets?
Enemy fall down! Go BOOM!
One thing that may make satellites more deadly is to launch them during tactical combat in Groups. It spreads them out, helping to cover the "blind side", and makes them less vulnerable now that ships require multiplex tracking to attack more than one enemy per turn.