Re: Mines

    
    
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    I agree that straight FT2 mines are fairly weak when brought
straight over to FT2.5. They would appear to be useful as a prelayed
field only, and I suspect the minelayer system was included only for
specific scenarios (a minelayer interupted in its task).
    
    I kind of like the idea of beefing up a mines a bit, but before we
go hog wild with this we should look at what we want mines to really do.
    
    A 2d6 mine IS beefed up, but it also has the capacity to obliterate
anything up to a Frigate in one blow. Do we want this?
    
    
    Schoon
	Mines are a very effective weapon.  Historically they have
destroyed or mission killed larger portion of vessels than any other
weapon system...