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Whats best way to get rid of mines
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I hate mines, how can I sweep them up quickly once I take control of new planet?
Mines are, by default, in phase space...this makes them invulnerable to damage...
All scout ships have an ability to "decloak" mines, allowing them to suffer damage...
ANY ship can damage a mine, but only if the mine has been decloaked by a scout ship....
The easiest way to deal with mines is to have a few scouts scattered around the edge of the minefield so that all the mines are decloaked...then, SC are usually the most efficient way to destroy the mines once they are made visible...
Strikecraft are fast and don't suffer from exploding mines, so they should be able to destroy the mines quickly and without loss....however, you may want to spread around the squadrons of strikecraft so they are shooting at different mines....SC can suffer from "overkill" where all the ships shoot at the same target and at the same time, doing way more damage than needed and wasting their shots...
I've found a bit of a cheat way too....
Use a Diplomacy Cruiser!
Activate its 30 second invulnerable ability and then fly it through the minefield. It will trigger the mines, but take no damage! Rinse and repeat, without losing a single ship. It is especially useful on those annoying homing mines...
Homing mines are the only real problem. If you don't have anyone shooting at you while you're doing it, just set some scouts loose in the gravity well and they'll clean things up. Homing mines are very annoying and require you to carefully inch forward to reveal them with scouts, then blast them with fighters. The diplomacy cruiser is definitely a preferable way of clearing them if you have Diplomacy (though that's a bit of an exploit in and of itself...)
For TEC / Vasari mines, make a small fleet with a couple scouts leading 2-3 flak vessels. Make sure the Scouts are the flagship in the fleets so the flak follow them, and turn auto attack on for the scouts. Come back later and the minefields should all be cleaned up.
For Advent mines, the diplomacy vessel exploit sounds kinda cool. Back in regular Entrenchment I would just feed level 1 Kols into the minefield with their phasic shielding activated, or use a Vasari Starbase.
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