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Land/Sea Mines
quote: Originally posted by beyowulf on 09-25-2000 03:05 PM Or even better, a Mine Unit. The Mine Unit has a movement of 0. It can be moved around by allied transports, though once activated it is harmful to both allied and enemy units. Units trying to move through the mine unit recieve damage, though they -are- able to move into the square occupied by the Mine, and past it. Mines unit never recieve damage, but their attack does decrease to reflect the fact that some mines already exploded. Also, late in the game, use of this unit might be considered an atrocity. |
The mines are a good idea - and I have started a new thread on it to give it the recognition it deserves. (Actually, it may have been discussed in the past, but I can't remember, oh well...)
A mine model:
*Mines behave in the game as described above.
*However, mines would have 10HP and each turn have a 33% chance of losing a HP, so that it could be expected to last about 30 years.
*They can be laid down anywhere by an appropriate unit.
*Only special units would be able to see mines, and perhaps mines would be able to be removed by engineers.
*Mines would have have something like 6*-0-0 (ADM), but like a ship trapped in a port, attack is reduced to 1 when attacking armoured vehicles. Once an appropriate tech is discovered, all new mines layed after that would cause the full 6 attack on armoured units.
*Obviously mines wouldn't affect air units, and maybe sea mines don't affect submarines, just to give that unit a bit more of an advantage.
*Mines don't belong to anyone once laid, so no one knows who did it. But if you lay a mine in someone's territory within sight of one of their units/sensors, then it is an act of war.
*Later in the game, one of the acts that can be proposed to the UN (like in SMAC) is the removal of landmines. It would be quite expensive, it must be passed by half the civs, and anyone who agreed to it would pay and have landmines instantly removed from their own territory. If everyone agreed to do it, the landmines would also be removed from neutral areas that no one's borders cover. This would be a way to make the UN more useful, though it's not very realistic.
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[This message has been edited by UltraSonix (edited September 25, 2000).]
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