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Re: Minesweeping by chaff

Wed, 21 May 2003 17:38

Sotek

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Registered: November 2002

Completely disagree chaff-sweeping is a cheat.

Hell, minefields only really matter, lateish game, *against* chaff.

(You don't send your mainfleet ahead of the chaff because it will *die* against their chaffed fleet, and you don't send your mainfleet with chaff through minefields above safe speed, because your *chaff* will die if you hit.)

But skirmishers will routinely run through minefields going "Lah de dah" because you can afford the damage more than you can afford the time or to let them be caught.

As has been said, minefields are an obstacle, not a barrier.

All they do is slow things down and buy time, they don't *stop* them. (SD exploding fields an exception, and those again really only against chaff, once BBs and up are fielded in numbers.)

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