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I'm not sure how he hit the nail on the head. Other than the point where the player explicitly only builds one patch (and thus the time reduction being significant), his other arguments were "The mine is working how it is supposed to work"

The Pioneer takes extra damage while clearing a Soviet mine. I'm not sure why it's argument against s-mines.

Soviet mines block choke points and require a sweeper as well. I'm not sure how this is an argument against s-mines.

This thread should just be "Mines are broken because they require minesweepers to clear, sweeping takes too long, and the engineer/pioneer take extra damage while clearing"

Mines are deactivated when they are detected. Nothing is preventing you from flanking an MG if you have an engineer around. The detection works even if they are pinned.

You can't compare S Mines to Soviet mines, they are completely different and have completely different uses. S Mines are for area of denial, you don't just clear 1 mine you clear heaps. Soviet Mines are put there just hoping a vehicle will drive over them. Besides German's don't have to even clear them if they don't have the time. A single Rifle Grenade or Flamer burst will destroy the mine.

Edit: Though the point about the reveal into Con flank is good, probably a good way to try and push out.

The 75% build reduction actually translates to significantly less in-game. The majority of the construction time is spent on the engineers running from one corner of the s-mine field to the next, making the construction time less significant.

The sweeping time on a s-mine is directly proportional to it's build time. It takes about 1 second to sweep the mine.. I don't know much much faster you expect it to be? The enemy spent 60 munitions building the mines - surely you can spend 30 munitions to clear them.

If it makes you feel any better, the German scout car can't clear the Soviet mines either.

s-mines are now on-par with Soviet mines and this change was one of the rare moments Relic actually proactively improved a useless ability.

No German actually builds the whole field, they build one mine, cancel, and then build another right next to it. You don't have to build all four, there is no Pio travel time. Minesweepers are not really viable if the German is any good, as I said Engies take double damage when clearing.

Hi guys I'm ArchonHawk and I've been driven to the forums by being cheesed one too many times. I was fine with the Tiger Ace, hell I was fine with the G-43's instantly ruining my snipers. What I cannot stand is this new minefield blobbing German playstyle.

Pretty much the German starts a minefield, cancels after building one and continues this till a cutoff or point is covered. The mines build incredibly fast as well. This is a gigantic problem on maps such as Semoskiy and also Road To Karkov. If you lose the initiative once as the Soviet. Mines go up and you can't push through until you get rid of them.

Possible solutions, well look there aren't many;
1-Just flank them. Well yes I would love to but there is an MG in one lane a blob in the middle and mines on the right, I can't do that.

2-Destroy them. Hard as hell, for some reason I cannot fathom Engie flamers will not clear mines as the German flamers will. Ok go minesweepers, sure but that means an additional Engie squad, and the upgrade, and even after that they will take double damage when clearing so one Gren squad will force them off. I mean you could try with AT guns or Mortars but it's not efficient and you lose the initiative.

3-Perhaps the only way is to go Tier 1 and get a scout car, sure it will still take damage but you can repair it. What I hate is this forces you into Tier 1 and that sucks a lot of the time. So if you see double Pio, usually the strat then you have to go Tier 1.

Possible Fixes- 1 Make sure you have to build the entire field not just the one mine spam. 2 Increase the ridiculously short build time. Or 3 please let flamers clear the mines.

Opinions welcome ofc.

-ArchonHawk