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Re: When to lay heavy mines?

Thu, 13 May 2004 10:20

vonKreedon

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The two situations in which I have used Heavies are:
1 - Highly cloaked minelayers inserted into large planetary gaps in non-IT enemy line of supply. The Heavies put up such large fields that one Super-MineLayer can completely fill such a gap with Heavies. This tactic can take out troop carriers, mineral carriers, chaff, and cause BBs to be very severely damaged.
2 - As you mentioned, put large minefield around a planet you are bombing, or a planet of yours that is temporarily vulnerable to assault. In both of these situations you buy yourself time by forcing the enemy to start minesweeping further out, due to the size of the Heavy Minefield.

Still, IMO the use of Heavies is specialized, not a normal mine to lay as its safe speed is too high and it is expensive. My favorite SD minefield configuration is Speed Trap/Standard. The enemy is stopped by the ST and then gets the Standards detonation damage.

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		When to lay heavy mines? By: Carn on Thu, 13 May 2004 09:38
		Re: When to lay heavy mines? By: vonKreedon on Thu, 13 May 2004 10:20
		Re: When to lay heavy mines? By: Kotk on Mon, 17 May 2004 07:35
		Re: When to lay heavy mines? By: Carn on Mon, 17 May 2004 09:02
		Re: When to lay heavy mines? By: Kotk on Mon, 17 May 2004 15:15
		Re: When to lay heavy mines? By: Carn on Mon, 17 May 2004 17:45
		Re: When to lay heavy mines? By: Micha on Mon, 17 May 2004 18:29
		Re: When to lay heavy mines? By: Kotk on Tue, 18 May 2004 11:19
		Re: When to lay heavy mines? By: Carn on Tue, 18 May 2004 11:41
		Re: When to lay heavy mines? By: Kotk on Tue, 18 May 2004 12:18
		Re: When to lay heavy mines? By: Carn on Tue, 18 May 2004 12:51
		Re: When to lay heavy mines? By: Kotk on Tue, 18 May 2004 13:59
		Re: When to lay heavy mines? By: Micha on Mon, 17 May 2004 07:56
		Re: When to lay heavy mines? By: iztok on Tue, 18 May 2004 02:12
		Re: When to lay heavy mines? By: mlaub on Tue, 18 May 2004 13:04
		Re: When to lay heavy mines? By: Kotk on Tue, 18 May 2004 14:03
		Re: When to lay heavy mines? By: mlaub on Tue, 18 May 2004 15:37
		Re: When to lay heavy mines? By: Kotk on Wed, 19 May 2004 03:58
		Re: When to lay heavy mines? By: wizard on Wed, 19 May 2004 08:32
		Re: When to lay heavy mines? By: mlaub on Wed, 19 May 2004 14:49
		Re: When to lay heavy mines? By: Robert on Sat, 16 October 2004 13:01
		Re: When to lay heavy mines? By: iztok on Sat, 16 October 2004 14:05
		Re: When to lay heavy mines? By: Staz on Sat, 16 October 2004 17:04
		Re: When to lay heavy mines? By: Micha on Sat, 16 October 2004 18:04
		Re: When to lay heavy mines? By: iztok on Sat, 16 October 2004 20:13
		Re: When to lay heavy mines? By: Staz on Sun, 17 October 2004 07:10
		Re: When to lay heavy mines? By: Robert on Sun, 17 October 2004 07:34
		Re: When to lay heavy mines? By: Robert on Sun, 17 October 2004 11:06
		Re: When to lay heavy mines? By: Staz on Sun, 17 October 2004 13:55
		Re: When to lay heavy mines? By: Robert on Mon, 18 October 2004 02:35
		Re: When to lay heavy mines? By: Carn on Mon, 18 October 2004 06:16
		Re: When to lay heavy mines? By: Staz on Mon, 18 October 2004 06:31
		Re: When to lay heavy mines? By: iztok on Mon, 18 October 2004 06:59
		Re: When to lay heavy mines? By: Robert on Sun, 17 October 2004 04:35
		Re: When to lay heavy mines? By: iztok on Mon, 18 October 2004 06:16
		Re: When to lay heavy mines? By: Robert on Mon, 18 October 2004 08:24
		Re: When to lay heavy mines? By: iztok on Mon, 18 October 2004 09:41
		Re: When to lay heavy mines? By: mlaub on Wed, 19 May 2004 14:23
		Re: When to lay heavy mines? By: multilis on Mon, 18 October 2004 14:30

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