Minesweeper Question

[SWizzardS]

I searched through the forums but couldn't find an answer to this specific question & thought I would ask it here

Let say you are attacking two planets (in different squares). Each is covered with 100 mines & you plan on attacking both in the same turn. If your fleet has mine sweepers that can handle 100 mines will it clear both planets on that same turn? Or after the first 100 mines will you then get hit with the next 100?

Thanks for any assistance you guys can give me.

[Atrocities]

You can only have 100 mines per sector. So the mine sweeper will clear those 100 mines. If you then move to a new sector, the mine sweeper will clear those mines as well. The mine sweeper works regardless until it has hit its maximum ability.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

So if you have 101 mines in the secter and can only sweep 100, the last mine damages a ship. Not sure if it damages shields or armor, though.

[Atrocities]

How would you have 101 mines in a system if the limit is 100 mines per system? *Non modded games of course*

[Fyron]

Each empire can launch 100 mines in a sector.

Mines ignore shielding entirely. They damage armor first like everything else (unless you mod in armor skipping mines, of course).

[narf poit chez BOOM]

Imperator Fyron said:
Each empire can launch 100 mines in a sector.

Mines ignore shielding entirely. They damage armor first like everything else (unless you mod in armor skipping mines, of course).

...What happens if you mod in shield damage from mines?

[Arkcon]

The mines, if they've been launched from 2 planets owned by two empires, aren't orbiting each planet per se, but are all in one sector, so it all happens in one move. In that case, you'll need mine sweeping capability to get them all.

If your hopping between planets in two different sectors within one silmutaneous turn, then the minesweepers are availible to work on each sector individually.

[Renegade 13]

It'll sweep both planets. Mine sweeping components can sweep their stated number of mines each time they enter a new sector. So you're good!

[Parasite]

One BC with 20 minesweepers 5 and a speed of 10 could clear 1000 mines in one turn. It could clear 100 mines in each sector it moved through. 10 moves, 1000 mines. Getting 200 in two sectors is nothing.

200 in one sector as may happen when laid by multiple people would hurt.

[Alneyan]

A Battlecruiser with 20 Minesweepers will have exactly 0kt for other components (a mere 600kt is hardly enough for twenty 30kt components), so it isn't going to be built anytime soon, let alone move anywhere.

A Battleship with Emergency Propulsion V and Propulsion Experts should get the job done, though, and will sweep several hundred more mines a turn. Of course, most people don't lay a full 100 mines on every single sector.