defending your empire's borders: what do you do?

[Master Belisarius]

Originally posted by TerranC:

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Originally posted by Stone Mill:
--The AI never really figures out mines.

That doesn't apply when fighting against TDM AI. Why? every ship is a minesweeper.

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I don't think it's true for all the races...
Most of the best races have attack ships without minesweepers, but include an offensive ship design that works as sweeper.
The advantage, is that the AI include these designs into the fleets... then, the AI will have fleets with minesweeper capabilities.
Using the AI these kind of designs, after some point the mines became less effective against the AI (only with 2 of those ships, could clean a minefield with 100 mines).