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JebUSMC
09 Jul 07, 13:57
I don't know if this is just me but the mines in this game seem totally pointless. How many of you have had a ship sunk or damaged by a mine or had an enemy ship sunk or damaged by a mine either in battle or on the campaign map? The mines themselves appear to be attached to the minimap rather than the main battlefield in battles. Everytime the minmap switches to the next map, the mines all move on the main battle field but are in the exact same positions on the minimap. Is this a bug? I'd love to be able to use my raiders to lure the Mikasa into a minefield and have it actually mean something.
Haida
10 Jul 07, 22:26
It's not just you. I've had the exact same experiences. Sad to say the mines don't do anything. The reason they don't work is because they are visible to the AI. More than once I have seen a squadron steaming straight towards a minefield and then change course to go around it. I have dropped 600 mines at Assan Basin and then drawn out Togo by raiding near Chemulpo and Togo's ships sailed in and out of base several times without so much as a scratch.

Please, please fix the mines for Jutland!
Rhetor
11 Jul 07, 04:15
Please, please fix the mines for Jutland!

Why only for Jutland? :-D
JebUSMC
17 Jul 07, 04:35
I'd like to see a fix now with DG. At least attach them to the battlespace and make my mines invisible to the all. Maybe then they might actually run the risk of hitting them.
JebUSMC
17 Jul 07, 04:35
I'd like to see a fix now with DG. At least attach them to the battlespace and make my mines invisible to the AI. Maybe then they might actually run the risk of hitting them.
Daedalus
17 Jul 07, 16:07
We have talked about this in the past, and I for one have seen the mines work. I have seen ships damaged by them and sunk.
As for the mines being able to be seen, they where. As the ships I saw sunk by them it was at night. Also they had lookouts for mine fields on the ships and from looking at the way they placed the mines it was possible for a ship to see them or to sail through a mine field and not strike a mine. And there was a good chance that one could hit a mine that did not work. As the loss rate was high on them.

I am going to do a test I did in the past and see if I can get the mines to work just in case something has come about. But if you do a search in the forum about this you can read what was posted by Norm and myself and others on this. I am not saying that you are wrong on this issue. As something could have happened with the mines in the game.