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Re: Mine Damage Dodge - bug or feature? (split from: Late game minesweeper) Thu, 14 January 2010 06:57 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
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vonKreedon wrote on Tue, 08 December 2009 03:00

Given the example, and I can think of many instances where such a fleet structure would be useful in itself in addition to the mine dodge byproduct, I think that this needs to be one of the standard allowed exploits. And I say this as a player who often plays SD.


That's my thought, it's a bit to easy to do it for completely innocent reasons.

That said... It does make minesweeping massively cheaper, at no additional cost in fleet numbers, and an almost trivial additional cost in chaff. I think this would make fighting a SD much much easier (1 chaff + 1 DD to go in and sweep an exploding field, instead of 5 DD)

If it's in the game description, it's easy enough to avoid... And accidental violations are easily dealt with (just have them scrap the ship that should've died, although the field is still swept by then.)


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