Minefield Limit Loophole

[Beck]

I haven't much experience using minefields in previous games and have been using them more in my current game. I thought the current Version (and from some time ago) had reduced the limit to minefields to 100. I have discovered that this is not a hard limit. If the minefield had say, 97 mines in it, the game allowed my single minelayer to lay its maximum allowance of 32 mines (has 16 minelayer III's) to bring the total in the minefield to 129 mines. Any further attempts while the minefield was above 100 would result in the error message about the limit of 100 mines to a sector. So it appears the game only engages the limit on laying mines once the threshold has been reached and does not prevent you from laying mines in excess if done all at once while under the limit. As I only have the one minelayer I haven't been able to test having a fleet of minelayers attempt to add to a field to see how high above 100 one can get.