Mines & Treaties

[Fyron]

Originally posted by atari_eric:

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Originally posted by Loser:
One Large Mine with four Cobalt Warhead III for those situations where I want to maximized damage but I don't think the enemy will bring a minesweeper, like scattering mines in a random movement system

Gah! You pervert! That's so cruel!

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That is a fairly common tactic. I usually surround WPs with a few mines in each sector, so that the enemy colony ships will make a wall of minefield markers, and then they will get stuck, unable to find a path! >:-)

[quote]Originally posted by Arkcon:

Originally posted by Loser:
Mines and sweepers are very important in PBW. My current enemy never entered my space without 100 mine sweeping ability. I only had 30 or so at my warp points. Then I wrecked 3 or 4 troop transports with my fields of 5 mines located one sector to the left. Ha. Funny stuff.

The problem is that 100 sweeping ability is EXTREMELY easy to get. Just 5 LCs with sweepers II can sweep 100 mines. It generally only takes a few extra turns to get enough protection with your fleets (except in very early game, ofc).

[ October 02, 2003, 21:31: Message edited by: Imperator Fyron ]

[SpaceBadger]

Originally posted by Slick:
Cloaked minesweepers will not uncloak and will not sweep mines when encountering a minefield.

What if they are using stealth armor instead of actual cloaking devices? I just discovered stealth armor while reading through components.txt today - never bothered researching armor high enough to get it before, and am intrigued by the possibilities and limitations of it.

SpaceBadger

[ October 03, 2003, 04:01: Message edited by: SpaceBadger ]

[Slick]

Originally posted by SpaceBadger:

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Originally posted by Slick:
Cloaked minesweepers will not uncloak and will not sweep mines when encountering a minefield.

What if they are using stealth armor instead of actual cloaking devices? I just discovered stealth armor while reading through components.txt today - never bothered researching armor high enough to get it before, and am intrigued by the possibilities and limitations of it.

SpaceBadger

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If you cloak them, they won't sweep mines. Doesn't matter what the means of cloaking is. Not sure if this is a feature or a bug, but it is the way it works.

Slick.

[Fyron]

Definitely a feature.