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Re: When to lay heavy mines? Mon, 17 May 2004 07:56 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
Micha

 

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Minefields act as scanners, they can even spot cloaked fleets, when a 97% cloaked fleet (the typical cloaked penscan galleon) is in your field you have a 3% chance of detection (better than nothing!). Now because it's very easy to lay huge fields of heavy mines you could use those to cover all of your space with just a few fields (512 field limit as you mentioned) to act as a scanner against cloaked ships ...

mch

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