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Originally posted by Psitticine:
If you have a mine layer ready at the site then, yes, they could replace blown mines right away (during your next turn) if the incoming fleet is destroyed or fails to down the transport in combat, but those new mines won't have any effect until somebody new enters the mined sector.
Which brings to mind an old wish of mine. A detonate minefield button to detonare mines in such a situation. Would also be useful at a blockaded planet. Build mines, launch into space, detonate, no more blockade. mines are subject to sweeping via the sweep button of course. But if the blockading fleet is lazy enough not to sweep...
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Originally posted by Taqwus:
FWIW, early on, a ship with good Organic Armor makes an insanely good minesweeper, since the armor will regenerate between mine detonations.
I tried this in 0.99 Demo. Didn't work. Sent a Cruiser fully stacked with Organic Armor 1 into a field of small mines with mine warhead III. No more Cruiser.
Too bad as it would be really useful.