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Re: When to lay heavy mines? Mon, 17 May 2004 15:15 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
Kotk

 
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Carn wrote on Mon, 17 May 2004 15:02


I just don't understand, why heavies should be laid in fewer or equal numbers like normals. Of course heavies alone are not very useful, but both on mini and bigmine layer hulls it would mean leaving slots empty if you want to put heavies and normals in and balance both. Does that realy drop cost significantly enough?



It is matter of balance. Exclamation

In his empires inner regions SD wants the fields to be as big as possible to minimize the minefield numbers that it takes to secure his territory.

At border the minefields are warfighting tool for SD. He wants to control their location. Few relatively little but well-placed fields are LOT better than big one that is badly placed. Demoliting big fields can easily kill his own or allies sweepers and chaffs. If he lay combination he wants both fields to be exactly at same spot. If he lay significally bigger heavies then different heavy fields merge, their centers shift and so can be swept separately from standards.

Other point is that filling the slots at super minelayer ends up with not gateable design.

As result SD simply harms his strategic flexibility and finesse by building unbalanced and overbloated minelayers.

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