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Re: When to lay heavy mines?

Mon, 18 October 2004 08:24

Robert

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iztok wrote on Mon, 18 October 2004 12:16

Hi!

Robert wrote on Sun, 17 October 2004 10:35

Well, you can do this - still the costs for such a CC is much higher than for the minilayer to catch. And the CC (even in stacks of 5) can take only one hit. So you need stacks of 5 CCs to catch one nasty minilayer - and eventually that fleet meets my missle BB with an energy dampener.
In the end the prize to catch these minilayers will be _very_ high. I dont say this tactic is not counterable, it is just very expensive...

The price of my CC is less then twice your MML (assuming you have bio 12 and I have weap-26), and it can kill MANY of your MMLs. I'll not sweep your existing heavy minefields with those skirmishers. I'll target your MMLs when they are on your side of the "border", and will sweep and follow your MMLs with my cheap sweeper DDs -a pair of those from different directions to every of your MMLs will be sufficient to keep your minefields down to very few, while I'll be heavily laying my minefiels to restrict your movement. Your MMLs are not able to survive the minehit...
As you see there's no big costs involved on my side, but MM requirements are tremendous. NP for me anyway. Wink

BR, Iztok

1.) MML costs 11I 22B 17G 70R (transgascoop, 1OT 2*110heavies)
2.) CC costs 39I 46B 23G 109R (transgal, 4 gattling, 2 OT, 2 en14shields)

this is what i would think about as a counter, you may have different ideas, but this is a very cheap CC that survives exactly one hit (in stacks of 5).

the MML is much cheaper, and you need stacks of 5.

next is that I will not be that stupid to move my ships unprotectd, I would merge them at some point, use split fleet doge tricks to make it hard for you to get them, moving in and out of existing minefields, and move some to places that are protected by my own battleships. And your own minefields wount help you much as SD is best at sweeping....

I guess you would have _serious_ trouble to counter my MMLs this way... If the SD is stupid it is of course easy...

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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
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