clearing a sector of squash mines

[Mudkest]

So I decided to make some stations in some of those mined pirate sectors, at first I thouht I'll just have some mistral freighters running for the fatories there, thinking the 6 25MJ shields would be enough to protect them.

Then 1 minute after buying a shiney new mistral, equiping it with 6 25mj shields it runs into a squash mine and

the squash mine won

so now I have to figure out how to clear the sector of the rest of the mines without loosing ships, anyone have any sugestions on how to tackle this problem without flying my personal ship to every inch of the sector hoping to find the miens before the mines find me(and hoping to find them all )

[Carlo the Curious]

In TC I think you have to use seeker missiles (e.g. Tempests).

[Gazz]

I'd guess that was more than 1 mine because 1 SQUASH has a point blank damage of 75 MJ.

[G.Org]

Then 1 minute after buying a shiney new mistral, equiping it with 6 25mj shields it runs into a squash mine and

since when does a mistral has 6x25 MJ shields? i only know about 4

and i dont know if it still work. but back then in X3R u could fly towards minefield with "target enemy" enabled (shift+t)and then a mine would be sellected. long ranged weapons or missiles do the job then.

[Mudkest]

I'd guess that was more than 1 mine because 1 SQUASH has a point blank damage of 75 MJ.

Could be, survived squash mines in my kestrel before(guess was too far away again before it realised I was there ) , so figured 150mj shields should be enough to protect the not-so-fast freighters

since when does a mistral has 6x25 MJ shields? i only know about 4

super freighter


"and i dont know if it still work. but back then in X3R u could fly towards minefield with "target enemy" enabled (shift+t)and then a mine would be sellected. long ranged weapons or missiles do the job then."

just tried that, following happened, was flying around in moolasomething legacy sector in my pelican when suddenly my front turret(running the MARS defense command) started spraying with the phased repeater gun, then suddenly BOOOOOM! fireworks as the squash mine went squish

time to get MARS upgrade for my mistrels I think and have them minesweep as theye go about their bussiness

(also squash mine didnt get targeted with target nearest enemy, cycling trough targets with page up/down or flaying at where the squash mine more or less was with target object)

[davetheterran]

I think u can clear mines using the target nearest enemy command on u turrets /mains and using PSGs would b more effective as these r area wepeons.So u take out more mines in any given area .D

[maphys]

I think u can clear mines using the target nearest enemy command on u turrets /mains...

In R. TC doesn't register the mines as targets as far as I can tell. Until you hit one...

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[Necrosexual]

Load CIGS on all your turrets in an m7 or m2 preferably an m7 for the speed then fly around set turrets to attack enemies.

the seeker missile approach sounds like a good idea to.

[NUKLEAR-SLUG]

Any variety of IFF seeker missile will do the job. If you have access to an M7M then Flail will be the most efficient for the task.