                                Command : MINE

NAME
   mine - Drop sea mines from a ship

Level: Basic

SYNTAX
   [##:##]% mine <SHIP> <NUMBER>

This command drops mines in the sea and is functional from  ships  with  mine-
laying capability (see info Ship-types).

See info Hitchance for the chance of a ship hitting a mine.

In the command syntax <SHIP> is the number of one of your ships  and  <NUMBER>
is  the  number  of  mines you wish to drop.  That number of shells, (assuming
you've got them), will be dropped in the sector that ship occupies,  magically
becoming mines as they hit the water.

Mines can only be removed safely by a minesweeper.  (Other  ships  can  remove
them  by hitting them, but...) Planes with the 'sweep' ability can clear mines
by flying recon missions through mined sectors, with each passage through  the
sector possibly removing some mines.

Ships of tech 310 or higher can detect mines with their sonar.  See info sonar
for more information.

Harbors and sea sectors under bridge spans can  be  mined.   Your  ships  will
automatically  avoid  these mines when passing through, (and your minesweepers
will not not pick them up).

Note that the sector is checked for possible mine hits only when a ship  moves
into it; thus, a ship may safely drop mines in a sector and then move out.  On
the other hand, the mines know no allegiance, so moving back into a mined sec-
tor is foolish at best unless it is a harbor or under a bridge span.

Mines in the same sector as a bridge that collapses are cleared.

SEE ALSO
   navigate, Hitchance, Damage, Ships

