Bishop Gantry
Spaceman
Is there anyone here that actually managed to use mines effectively ?
Sure you had loads of them but id take rearmounted FF missiles anyday
Sure you had loads of them but id take rearmounted FF missiles anyday
WCP and mines
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Rampage3051
Spaceman
When I'm flying the Shrike or Devastator (the 2 ships w/ mines), and I'm trying to shake a pesky fighter from my tail, I like to juke while dropping mines. It keeps the fighter busy, and sometimes their shots hit the mines.
I never found them _that_ effective, though.
I never found them _that_ effective, though.
MaximusCrimson
Spaceman
i never had any luck with mines....i tried them in almost all the wc games but they never seemed to work for me....so i just gave up with them
Zor Prime
That guy.
You see, mines are for super awesome pilots only. Like myself.
It is the ultimate challenge for a pilot. Kill a target using only mines. The ability to lay a rock in the middle of the road so that the enemy runs into it is quite a feat, cause you have to lay it so that the enemy can't avoid it.
It is the ultimate challenge for a pilot. Kill a target using only mines. The ability to lay a rock in the middle of the road so that the enemy runs into it is quite a feat, cause you have to lay it so that the enemy can't avoid it.Ladiesman^
Spaceman
Yeah, us crappy pilots have to strap into a Longbow and just open fire. But hey, it works fine for me!
Unforgiven
Spaceman
I never tried that, but sometimes I get the idea the enemies try to kill me with decoys.
Whenever I tail an enemy, they seem to keep launching decoys, for the eventuality that I might fire a missile. By the time I do, they're out of decoys...
Dark Tower
Rear Admiral
Originally posted by LeHah
Something far easier and inexpensive would be to just destroy the jump bouy on your side to prevent the capship from jumping in.
...As long as you have your own way out of the system, that is.
Unless its a engine bug blowing up jump bouy's won't stop caps since theres one on there own side and the point still exists destroying them only disrupts communication's and limited sensor data from the bouy on the other side.
If only mines could damage major caps in proph but alas.
Unforgiven
Spaceman
Outdated ships can always be stripped for parts or even just used to recycle the durasteel. No sense in wasting them like that.
And mines are likely to cause more damage than debris. Especially useful if you expect a fleet instead of just one ship.
And mines are likely to cause more damage than debris. Especially useful if you expect a fleet instead of just one ship.
Mekt-Hakkikt
Mpanty's bane
I never hit anything with WCP mines. Their slow fire rate made them pretty useless in my eyes.
Unforgiven
Spaceman
The point is not that the mines hit something, but that someone else (preferably the enemy ) hits the mines. 
) hits the mines. 
LeHah
212 Squadron - "The Old Man's Eyes And Ears"
Though stripping it for parts makes sense (though a Ranger's parts probably shouldn't be used on a, say, Vesuvius ), I think that a carrier left at a jump point, and collides with a ship jumping in, would set off the Ranger's power core, yes?? I mean, consider it if a small fleet is jumping in at the least!
), I think that a carrier left at a jump point, and collides with a ship jumping in, would set off the Ranger's power core, yes?? I mean, consider it if a small fleet is jumping in at the least!