Can you run into your own minefields?

[estaban]

Question 2:

Can you run into your own mines? I have not seen this happen, but I have seen one or two posts in my brief run through these forums that seem to indicate that self-inflicted mine damage can happen.

Anyone?

[Spooky]

Originally posted by estaban
Question 2:

Can you run into your own mines? I have not seen this happen, but I have seen one or two posts in my brief run through these forums that seem to indicate that self-inflicted mine damage can happen.

Anyone?

Yes, you can ...

[estaban]

Ouch!!

What about the Japanese? I started a campaign as Japan versus the computer, and I have played it to October 1942, but I have not run into any of the minefields that started the game around my ports. (Rabaul, Shortlands, Kavieng) Does the game treat minefields that are in one of your base hexes differently from a field planted in a sea hex?

Also, a question about minesweepers. Do they sweep if they are in a port hex and are docked? (NOT disbanded) I have set them to sweep in a port hex, but they always dock there. I undock them, and next turn they are docked again.

[tanjman]

estaban,

There are two types of minesfields, Defensive and Offensive. Defensive minefields are those laid at locations you own (i.e. bases and beaches). Offensive minefields are those laid at locations you do not own (i.e. enemy base & beaches also any other hexs). Your Offensive minefields are the ones your own ships can be damaged by. Because of this I don't lay an Offensive minefield at a location I plan on invading.

[Spooky]

AFAIK, you can also hit one of your own defensive minefields but the odds are hopefully very small

[eMonticello]

Originally posted by Spooky
AFAIK, you can also hit one of your own defensive minefields but the odds are hopefully very small

Hmmm... I might send a minesweeper to escort my ships to port in the future....

August 3. 1942 Mon.
Pacific
Light minelayers Gamble (DM-15), Breese (DM-18) and Tracy (DM-19) lay minefield off western entrance of Segond Channel, Espiritu Santo, New Hebrides.

August 4, 1942 Tue.
Pacific
Destroyer Tucker (DD-374), uninformed of its presence, is sunk in U.S. minefield laid the previous day by Gamble (DM-15), Breese (DM-18), and Tracy (DM-19), in Segond Channel, Espiritu Santo, New Hebrides. Chartered transport President Coolidge is also lost as the result of striking a mine in the same field.

http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USN/USN ... -1942.html

[Ron Saueracker]

Originally posted by Spooky
AFAIK, you can also hit one of your own defensive minefields but the odds are hopefully very small

Spooky. Lost an SC to a defensive mine at Bass Poya while chasing an I Boat. "Back of the line! No soup for you, Lieutenant!":D