Mine balance suggestion

[Growltigga]

Originally posted by Suicide Junkie:
I'd say they are nothing more than an irritant right now, except without the ability to soften up fleets.

All you need is a handful of minesweepers, and you can walk unopposed through minefields.

I think they are more than an irritant, they are a complete pain up the derriere

I would like the idea of them having a chance to hit like any other weapon, you would then have a bit more uncertainty on the effects and it would be a bit more random than the clinical 'just build a minesweeping wing able to blow 100 mines and you are sorted" approach..

it would mean a 100 ship fleet may take 1 or 2 light hits from a small 10 piece minefield irrespective of the point defence capacity it has, yet a single ship could try and ran a 100 mine field with a slim chance of actually getting through, without the blammo you are automatically stuffed which happens at the moment