Sweeping Minefields

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Ships and Starbases with beam weapons can sweep minefields. You can only sweep minefields belonging to Neutrals and Enemies. Sweeping minefields happens automatically. If you're flying through a neutral or enemy minefield and your fleet carries beam weapons with a range of 1 or greater, you'll start clearing a path. If an opponent builds a minefield around your planet and your starbase has beam weapons, the starbase will start clearing space to the limits of its weapons.

Sweeping mines happens before movement, so a fleet in a minefield sweeps mines the year it moves out of the field.

To display minefields your know about, turn on the Scanner pane's Mine Fields overlay.

Calculating a Fleet's Mine Sweeping Capability

To determine how many mines a beam weapon can sweep each year, multiply the weapon's Power by the square of its Range. Add up all the beams in the fleet and you know how many mines you'll sweep each year. If the fleet is in more than one mine field, it sweeps this number simultaneously from each mine field.

Gattling weapons are even more effective at sweeping mine fields. Consult the Technology Browser to learn their exact level of effectiveness.

Speed trap mines are swept at only 1/3 the normal rate.

Look in the Beam Weapons section of the Technology Browser to learn the power and range of each beam weapon.

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