pasternakski
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ORIGINAL: aernor I amy be wrong but it also looks as though the process of laying mines isn't instantaneous --- because the mines don't appear instantly we think something has gone wrong. A good thing to point out. There is a troubling inconsistency in the behavior of minelayers in this game (minesweepers have a similar, but different, problem) that causes them sometimes to act like you expect (hover a distance away from the destination hex equal to the number of hexes they can move at full speed, drop the minefield overnight, then run to a hex the same distance away in the direction of their home base), but they often do some stupid things, like stay in the destination hex or in the adjacent hex the next day so as to get the crap pounded out of them by airstrikes. I haven't looked at this closely enough to figure out when they will do one thing or the other, but it's really annoying. Wait till you send your minesweepers into a hex you want to amphibiously assault the next day and they just sit there like so many garbage scows, so that your transports and bombardment groups get honked by mine hits. And why is it that mines are intelligent enough to hit - and sink - the very transport on which the commanding general of the HQ in charge of the operation is on?
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