Mines and how to use them.

Little Billy

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If you're running a ship who's only strategy when faced with a pirate is to run fast, mines could be your new best friend. The NPC pirates are pretty brutal and can take down a type 7 with type A shields and drives in seconds. Big ships aren't maneuverable enough to fight off the bad guys but just running alone can mean a quick death. Fitting out all of the hard points with a mixture of both types of mine and putting them all onto one fire group gives you the ability to run while leaving a deadly cloud of mines behind you. The shock mines so the pirates in their tracks and the blast mines damage their shields. In combination with Point Defence they can make a really effective defence.
 

R.Steel

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I tried to use mines on my type 6 smuggler once. It layed down 2 neat lines of mines. HE from the port HP and shock from the starboard one. But as the line was just pretty much a neat trail of mines i figured the chance of them hitting anything, or getting hit by anything were pretty much minimal. Soo was i doing anything wrong or has there been a buffing?
 

DukeIronHand

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I've been carrying them for weeks on my non-combat ships but have yet to have a chance to use them.
Are you targeting the enemy and then putting him directly behind you as you run?

And since the OP appears to be a "mine veteran" if I just want to escape am I better off using Shock mines?
 
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Whiterose

Whiterose
I use them all the time, took out four elite ships with them last night. Submit from the interdiction, boost, make sure the target is exactly on your six and fire off your mines, keep boosting so that the distance is close enough to keep the enemy interested but not so close as you are taking a lot of damage. Keep firing, they may move away when their hull gets to about 50%, just manoeuvre the target back into your six and continue. Boom....collect your bounty. about 1:10 will FSD away when their hull is too low, the rest strangely continue to hit the mines.
 

Sapyx

Sapyx
You don't need to target the enemy ship to use mines, mines don't discriminate and will detonate against anything that gets close to them - including you, if you decide to go back and sift through the debris. Targeting the enemy simply lets you see whether or not your mines are hitting.
 

Cmdr Esteban

Cmdr Esteban
When you modify the ammo max and clip size, mines are even better:
Modified_Mine_Launcher.jpg


:)
 
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