[Hydraa]

I was wondering. Can you use a ally that does not have a peace treaty with you to allow you to lay more mines. My idea is to have the ally place a ship at the point you want the mines to be and you move your mine layer there and attack the ship. Have both ships basically on do not get hurt orders. Then the minelayer gets to lay mines for each turn of combat or even each combat round. I have not tried this but it could be a way around the slow strategic laying of mines.

You might be able to use a variant of the white elephant tatic mentioned earlier. Gift a enemy a ship with no engines and then attack it with your minelayer