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Re: When to lay heavy mines?

Mon, 17 May 2004 17:45

Carn

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Kotk wrote on Mon, 17 May 2004 21:15

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.

That leads to conclusion, that SD should wait to lay heavies and speeds until he has fair idea where inner and border regions are going to be, because otherwise he might start to lay lot of small fields in an area that turns out to be secure and then has to nerve allies to sweep those fields. Normal mines do not have that problem, they vanish fast, if exploding and not replenished.

Kotk wrote on Mon, 17 May 2004 21:15

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.

About placement, i think i read somewhere, that's impossible to chaffsweep mine field in plnet orbit before detonation, so if minefield is centered on planet its impossible to attack directly without receiving mine det if SD wants that. That would indicate that any endangered planet should have normal field centered on it even if rather small. Is that possible or simply too much work or too much minefields?

Kotk wrote on Mon, 17 May 2004 21:15

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

Why is gateability for ...

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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
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