Laying Mines problem since new Patch, Bug?

[Tomgs]

I had a mine group orbiting one of my frontier planets a fleet attacked the world and I had 4 partially damaged ships attacking after the mines were used up. So unless 3 of the ships were previously damaged (which is a possibility but there were no strange warp points near there) they all took partial damage from the mines. 4 of their ships were destroyed outright and there were no ships undamaged after hitting the minefield. Now when I hit a minefield all the damage seems to concentrate on ships one after another leaving at most one damaged ship. Hopefully this wasn't just an isolated incident and mines damage ships randomly and not just one after another.

[This message has been edited by Tomgs (edited 02 January 2001).]