Minesweeper frigate / cruiser?

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I dont know if this idea has been posted before, but expansions added minefields, great idea, except when someone fills the entire gravity well with mines ... i cant shoot them, i have to run my ships through them to get rid of them, or build something ontop of them, not very efficient, exceedingly time consuming and it has the potential to make an entire gravity well useless unless i spend a large amount of time micro-ing my ships into the mines.

there needs to be a ship that each faction can deploy to a recently conquered planet that can clear out mines, or perhaps add half-life on mines that causes them to self destruct when they are in an unfriendly star-system?

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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top

The advent already do, the Solanus Adjudicator, team them with some scouts and just leave them be

Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top

Scouts man, scouts...  Use them.  All three factions can reveal mines.  Team them up with ships that can rapidly shoot in multiple directions at the same time.  Mine fields go away real fast.

 

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Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top

Scouts + Flak = dead mines fast

Reply #4 from Sins Forums Top

OR create a mod with a MODIFIED flak with the scout mine detect ability  added to it.

harpo

 

Reply #5 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting lachlanp, reply 1
The advent already do, the Solanus Adjudicator, team them with some scouts and just leave them be

Adjudicator/starfish is a pretty horrible ship that you should never be building... flak or Illums paired with the scouts would be much more cost effective.

Reply #6 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting Ryat, reply 3
Scouts + Flak = dead mines fast

Hells yeah, hot damn. thats what i'm talking about.

I love watching entire mine fields just go pop when i jump in my "snow plow" teams to clear out mines before my fleet jump into the gravity well.

 

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Reply #7 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting Wrath89, reply 5

Quoting lachlanp, reply 1The advent already do, the Solanus Adjudicator, team them with some scouts and just leave them be

Adjudicator/starfish is a pretty horrible ship that you should never be building... flak or Illums paired with the scouts would be much more cost effective.

 

The starfish isn't really that bad of a ship in a number of 6 they can clear a system fairly quickly. Their DPS isn't a problem the Advent have always had great AoE units. The problem that makes them terrible is their cost.

Reply #8 from Sins Forums Top

I'd love for Corvettes to have ability to bypass minefileds.  As they are meant to be harassers.

Reply #9 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting Astax, reply 8
I'd love for Corvettes to have ability to bypass minefileds.  As they are meant to be harassers.

That would be really cool.  As Advent, when I don't have time to clear a minefield out, I just capture the planet, quene up a bunch of buildings, and leave them to get destroyed by trade ships.  If I am correct, Karmic Retribution would work then too, right?

But even that gets annoying sometimes.  I am also thinking of a corvette that is a minesweeper or can bypass mines, though I prefer minesweeper.