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Originally posted by PvK:
Drones will be a lot more expensive than the mines they would detonate - the engines are one of the most expensive parts. It might be a little more effective if you piled armor on the drones, but still it'd be pretty wasteful.
PvK
Well of course the drones would be more expensive than the mines, but you can't detonate mines with mines. And you only need one engine. And you wouldn't want armor. The point is to detonate the mines with the cheapest thing possible that can be built in large quantities quickly. No matter how big and expensive the mine, each mine only takes out one vessel. Yes, the tactic is wasteful compared to minesweeping, but if you don't have minesweepers researched/built/handy, then this tactic might work. It allows you to use your shipyards to make warships instead of minesweepers.
Do you know how the Celts used to break the Roman lines? A bunch of lousy fighters would work themselves into a frenzy and impale themselves on the Roman spears and hang on as long as they could. These would be followed closely by skilled Celt fighters who could then take advantage of the Romans while they were spearless. It was a brutal but effective way to use their numerical superiority to offset the Romans' superiority in training and equipment.
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