[geoschmo]

Yes, this is usually a suprise to people. When a fleet of ships hits a minefield, each individual mine warhead impact gets calculated seperatly. The damage for each warhead gets applied to a component on a ship (Randomly I guess). If the damage of that warhead exceeds the structure of the component, excess damage is applied to another component on that ship. If the structure exceeds the limit of the damage applied to it, nothing happens. Partial damage is not saved for the next warhead.

This can result in some weird things with level I warheads. Colony ships gutted except for the colony comp, but completely clearing a minfield in the process. Ships with scattering armor are close impervious to level 1 warheads, since the structure of the scattering armor is more than the damage of the warhead. Nothing else on the ship will be hurt since armor is always damaged first. Only other types of armor on that ship will be destroyed possibly.

I am still confused as to why you had mines left though. Are you playing a simultaneous turn game? If you are and you remotly launched mines in the same turn the colony ship entered the minefield that would explain it. Mines are launched at the end of the turn after the ships move.

Geoschmo