Obscure, unintuitive and unforgiving

Atrocities · #1 October 8th, 2004, 10:28 AM

Tip for success in an early game is Research and deploy MINES.

That goes for SP and PBW.

Enjoy.

Ed Kolis · #2 October 8th, 2004, 10:37 AM

But don't hang onto mines too long... if your opponent brings out mine sweeper III's (they sweep 3 mines per turn... EACH

), it's time to abandon mines as a viable strategy

edit: or is it really per "use" like in the description? what happens if you have a ship with a single MS III and you run into 2 minefields with 2 mines apiece in different sectors or belonging to different races? Does it sweep all of them or do you take damage from one of the mines in the second field?

Alneyan · #3 October 8th, 2004, 10:42 AM

It is per sector and per component. However, if you are at war with ten Empires, and they have 100 mines each in the same sector, you will trigger the whole stack of mines at once. Unless you have the means to sweep 1,000 mines, you will suffer from *some* damage. *Chuckles*