Sooooo Mines! How do you use them?

Wasp0

Wasp0
Well last night in my beefy Vette, i learnt just how effective Mines where when a DBX (Or DBS) pulled me down and open fire on me with a Pulse laser. Cheeky brat i thought i'll teach him to pull me down.

Deploy weapons and give chase.. 1 huge bang later OMG no flippin shields and hull damage!! he turns back on me and i have no choice but to wake out and lick my wounds and limp of to a quiet station to eat humble pie and think what just happened.

I know it was a mine Had to be, as he was facing away from me so could not have been a torp. What 'Special' was on this mine or Mines??

I went back to try strike up a dialogue to ask, but he had moved on or gone out of game.
 

Wasp0

Wasp0
CMDR_Cosmicspacehead said:
Sounds like Reverberating Cascade mines.

Simple defence is just stick a PD turret on your nose. Assuming you can cope with not having 54 shield boosters. :p
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No only 52 SB on this build ;), but if i had 103SB it looks as if these shield killer mines would deal with all of them ! PD take out Mines?

Defo not a Torp Dognosh he was flying away from me all the time so his weapons never faced me apart from the initial poking he did on me to wind me up so i gave chase.
 

Dad Rock

Dad Rock
Sounds like you had a close call there, OP!

Might sound like a silly question, but how does one get one of these reverberating cascade mines? Because I would sure like some of those fitted to my T9. I looked up Juri Ishmaak on Inara, as well as searched through Google, and it doesn't seem too obvious where they can be configured/engineered.
 

nathanc213

nathanc213
Baba_Ghannoush said:
Sounds like you had a close call there, OP!

Might sound like a silly question, but how does one get one of these reverberating cascade mines? Because I would sure like some of those fitted to my T9. I looked up Juri Ishmaak on Inara, as well as searched through Google, and it doesn't seem too obvious where they can be configured/engineered.
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Juri ishmak does them, the reverberating cascade is a special effect you can get for them.
 

Marshall...

Marshall...
I use Reverb and Ion disruptions on my mines. It strips shields and stops a ship in its tracks. Your best defence is to check your enemies loadout and be wary of anyone carrying mines (its usually iCourier, DBS or my fav, Cobras that do it). Also fit a point defence as they will usually be able to knock out the mines pretty quickly.
 
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Wasp0

Wasp0
Arc said:
I use Reverb and Ion disruptions on my mines. It strips shields and stops a ship in its tracks. Your best defence is to check your enemies loadout and be wary of anyone carrying mines (its usually iCourier, DBS or my fav, Cobras that do it). Also fit a point defence as they will usually be able to knock out the mines pretty quickly.
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Hmmm, thanks for your advice. Me thinks tonight i will mainly be trying out a Mine ship, and have some fun with these big shield ships. It certainly got me last night. Long long time i was in a Cobra, be good to get back into her (Oh er Missus)!
 

Drelthar

Drelthar
Assign them to a fire group and press the corresponding fire button while hardpoints are deployed in normal space.
 

Wasp0

Wasp0
Thanks to all the Cmdrs who answered with useful information. I clearly have a lot to learn about this mine laying malarky, lat night i fitted out a Cobra (Nice to back in a Cobra again), picked a fight with a NPC T6 to try out the manoeuvres, and promptly took my own drives offline and then my Shields.... DOH!

tips on tactics most welcome [haha] :D
 
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