NAVIGATION: Components > Mine Layer
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Weapon Attributes | |||||
| Range | Not Specified | ||||
| Health | 150 | ||||
| Mass | 45 | ||||
| Energy consumption | 50 /launch* | ||||
| Regrowth (seconds) | 5.3 secs | ||||
| P required | 83 | ||||
Projectile / Drone Attributes | |||||
| Health | 45 | ||||
| Mass | 14 | ||||
| Projectile Damage | 150 | ||||
| Projectile Splash | 70 | ||||
| Launch Energy | 50 /mine | ||||
| Build Rate | 1.0 mines/sec | ||||
| Note: If the above weapon has launchable projectiles then these stats will shown here. | |||||
"High damage, large splash radius dumb mines"
The Mine Layer is a unique weapon for Terran, and is effective against enemies pursuing the player's ships. The mines have the second-greatest explosive radius of all the Terran weapons, only the Plasma Mortar has a greater radius. Mines do not have any form of propulsion to hunt their targets. Ships do give momentum to their launched mines, but it is steadily lost until the mines settle. A key advantage of mines is their ability to damage blocks deep inside ships, due to their huge blast radius. While mines are dangerous to all kinds of ships which dare traverse minefields, they're especially effective against opponents chasing the minelayer. Incoming enemy rushers must either manuver away from minefields, or risk getting destroyed. A few mines can destroy small ships by damaging their cores directly, and also cripple large armored ships by destroying cannons and thrusters buried within thier hull. Mine Layers can be useful tools for escaping from losing battles, or just to keep enemies away from the player's ships.
Mine Layers are especialy useful on spinners, ships that rotate quickly as part of their movement. Unlike traditional ships, spinners are able to use Mine Layers offensively by throwing mines at their opponents. This technique can be used with other launcher-based weapons, particularly the Torpedo Launcher. AI-controlled Terran spinners, if they're fast enough, can throw mines and torpedos with terrifying speed and accuracy!
Before September 30th, 2018 Rebalance[]
The Mine Layer is a huge damage immobile projectile launcher that does explosive area of damage whenever hostiles ships make direct collision contact with them, it can cause their command modules to blew off their main hull allowing for easier killing, or the enemy is instantly destroyed, this weapon is pretty effective against fast targets that can't coordinate their evasion easily...
When it comes to strategies the Mine Layer could be used in large numbers to create massive minefields in seconds, the Mine Layer can give the player a strategic advantage since the mines could be left in a number of places to gain control of the battlefield and restrict the movements of your enemies, your enemies will either try to evade the mines or go straight through the mine and take damage regardless of the two possibilities the player will gain the upper hand in battle.