Question: Mines vs. Colony ships

[Suicide Junkie]

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Even if the colony ship is shedding the partial damage between mine explosions, it still should be taking damage sometimes to the other components smaller than the colony module.

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The problem is that larger/tougher internals get hit more often than the smaller/weaker ones. The colony module is 20x the size and strength of the engine components, so you'd need hundreds of mines to get a lucky hit on something other than the colony module.

The opposite is true of armor, though. There the smallest/weakest components are hit first, most of the time.

[This message has been edited by suicide_junkie (edited 18 June 2001).]