[Dragonlord]

Hi Phoenix, still traumatised by that fleet-in-retrofit I wiped out with luck ? :-)

Mines are very useful. I use them on wormholes and over planets. Minelayers can lay at twice the speed that a sweeper can clean... and it forces opponents to send enough sweepers with every fleet...causing them to spend resources and maintenance on sweepers while your mines are cheap and maintenance-free.

In one PBW game I had one annoying opponent who put one minelaying component on a transport ship, loaded it up with mines, then started creating little 2-mine minefields *everywhere*. Makes you really paranoid, even after defeating his military I couldn't safely send any colonisers or such into his former systems without sweeper escort...