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365 days, 3 hours, 4 minutes ago

marceline

Minesweep question. I have a stack of ships all at the...

Minesweep question.

I have a stack of ships all at the same square and they are all on the edge of a minefield. Ship 1 has disruptors. Ship 2, 3 and 4 all have H.phasors.

If I minesweep with ship 1, will it make the minefield smaller so that the ships after it are too far away to sweep the field with their H.phasors? Or, will all four ships sweep the minefield?

365 days, 3 hours, 3 minutes ago

mursu

RE: Minesweep question. I have a stack of ships all at the...

Minesweeping happens in ship ID order. So if the first ship reduces the minefield enough to put others out of sweeping range, the others do not sweep at all.

365 days, 2 hours, 45 minutes ago

marceline

RE: Minesweep question. I have a stack of ships all at the...

So there is no point stacking up 10 nova class to sweep a minefield because only one of them will ever sweep?

365 days, 2 hours, 41 minutes ago

mursu

RE: Minesweep question. I have a stack of ships all at the...

10 is very likely overkill, but remember that the enemy can lay more mines to the same minefield and thus your lone sweeper might not clear mines as you thought.

365 days, 2 hours, 35 minutes ago

marceline

RE: Minesweep question. I have a stack of ships all at the...

Right. Thanks for your answers. xx

364 days, 17 hours, 21 minutes ago

RE: Minesweep question. I have a stack of ships all at the...

@Marceline: Usually near/in the edge of a Minefield, you just have the most powerful Minesweeper with the lowest shipID# be the first to Minesweep and have the higher shipID# ships Minesweep as well just in case.

Sometimes deeper into a minefield it is beneficial to have the weaker Minesweepers go first so that overall more Mines are swept away.

Just in case you want to Minesweep Webs at their periphery without hitting Webmines and aren't aware of how to do it, check this out; https://imgur.com/a/R76bw