How to order a fleet through an enemy minefield

[Beorne]

I have a fleet full of sweepers and I can't order that fleet to pass through a known enemy minefield. The fleet goes to the opposite way, but I want to sweep the minefield while advancing. How should I do?
Thanks.

[douglas]

There are two ways to do this:

1) Turn off the "Ships should not move through minefields" empire option
2) Give the fleet orders that cannot possibly be followed without moving through the minefield.

You usually do want ships to avoid known minefields, so I'd recommend the second option. Order the fleet to move to the mined sector and then advance.

Edit: I just remembered a third option: remove the minefield tag by pressing ctrl+R and clicking on the minefield. Your ships will no longer know about that minefield and will completely ignore it until they're already on top of it and sweeping it. To do the reverse of this, marking a suspected minefield without sending a ship to get blown up by it, use ctrl+T.