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Originally Posted by LoBlo
I don't know much about that part of the globe, but how about some merchants transiting out of the port?
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You're right, Trondheim is a major port.
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Unless all merchant shipping has been halted owing to the minefield? (maybe a corridor thru the minefield that merchant shipping uses and a SSK sitting right in the middle to ensure only merchants (not enemy subs) use it.
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I thought about it. I didn't think it was really essential to the mission and it might lead a player to think there was a "right" way to get through, and I don't like to do that. I like things to be more open ended.
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By the way. Great mission. Got thru it the 1st time and wasn't until I turned on the replay did I see all those mines! Yikes!. Talk about lucky sailing.
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The mine barriers shouldn't be terribly effective. It's such a large area to mine that it's hard to put out enough mines out there to be even 80% effective. They might make a decent deterrent, though, if one ship got hit. I threw them out there in a way that would probably be typical of a minefield intended to deter amphibious assault. The hard part of that, though is deciding how much preparation the enemy has to plant mines. I assumed they didn't have much time. A less favorable assumption would be that they had months.