The Mine Launcher

[James T. Kirk]

....it is reckless to attempt to detonate the mines on purpose. The damage is substantial, and I suggest popping the balloon instead.

Unintentional carronade buff?

[N-Sunderland]

I was going to test placing five mines and taking their balloons down in succession with the lumberjack, but then I realized that Muse [censored] the [censored] [censored] on the [censored] by an [censored] [censored]. I was blown away.

[RearAdmiralZill]

In order : Increased, Projectile, Speed, Lumberjack, Excessive, Amount.

[N-Sunderland]

Noooooooo Ziiiilllll!!!

[RearAdmiralZill]

What? Tis a guess <3

I really have had 0 time on the dev app.

[Shinkurex]

gave it away eh?

[James T. Kirk]

Dammit.

I thought for sure it was boarding.

[N-Sunderland]

Actually, that's not the meta-changing thing I mentioned on the other thread

[James T. Kirk]

Oh good, I can still go wack someone with my spyglass.

[Wazulu]

At range it's debatable- you'll need a good Merc shot, and also the actual health of the mines is a concern. They don't explode after a couple Gatling rounds, more like 15.  I'll have to test with the Merc, but Gatling was ineffective at taking it out.

[N-Sunderland]

It took me 3.5 seconds of heavy clip Gatling fire to take one down. If I knew which multipliers to use I could calculate how a merc does against it.

[N-Sunderland]

Did the calculations. If the mine is counted as hull armour, then it's a two-hit kill from the merc (erm... More armour than the Squid? So it's probably not counted as that). If it's a mechanical component, then it's a one hit kill.

Of course, it could be using different multipliers entirely.

[naufrago]

Questions: Can you pop the balloons of your own mines, or damage your own mines with your guns? If a mine hits a wall, does the mine detonate?

[N-Sunderland]

You can destroy your own mine and its balloon. The only way that mines seem to differentiate between teams is with the number of mines fired.

I was on Sandbox, so I didn't get around to shooting one at a wall.

[RearAdmiralZill]

Setting mines on fire = time bombs?