i use a fleet including carriers with a mox of fighters & bombers on hold position near the mines then send a scout to near the mines on auto minesweep, the fighters,bombers & lrfs shoot the stuffing out ofthe mines ,move the scout near the next mine cluster & repeat

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edit the manuals are in the works for entrenchment and for sins download it is a pdf file called manual.pdf

works reasonably well against TEC and Vasari mines. as far as i can tell you really can't shoot down Advent Homing Mines. they'll ram right into you before you get a chance. clearing mines is VERY SLOW business though, really they're a very good deterrent once they're deployed.

If you know where the mines are inside a grav well where you want to jump, manually adujust where you ships make the jump into phase space, which changes their arrival point as well.  Jumping into a group of mines is dangerous, stupid and just unneccesary.  Strikecraft, flak frigates and I find illuminators are all good at clearing out mines.  I believe the scout only needs to stop to trigger their detect mine ability, or that's how it works for me. 

Perhaps I was doing something wrong.

I clustered a handful of Flaks and some Fighters around my 5 Arcovas and sent them in to reveal the Advent homing mines.

I revealed them alright, and even tried to manually target them with the flaks and fighters, but they just wouldn't fire.

I ended up losing all my scouts and half my flak frigates. After that my standard policy has been to ignore the fields during the main battle, and send in a Kol with forcefield and Finest Hour up to soak the mines afterwards.

Vasari and TEC mines are trivial with the above Arcova/Flak/Fighter combo.

there are two ways of getting rid of mines 1 send scouts and strike craft or 2 cheap ships as mine foder both are efective

I usually let a cap ship soak up the mines damage. You must make sure that no enemies are nearby, so that you can repair the damage done.

But it is an easy way to "clear" the mines that does not require awful lot of micromanagement. Clearing mines is a pain in the butt.

That has been my problem with homming mines, the mines have a greater range than the scout and when start come after the scout the rest of the forces can not shoot it down in time.  Dead scout.  What odes work very well for mines is several lone scouts going into a mine field, then mannually targeting the exposed mines with strike craft, I can not see any advantage of including them in the same fleet as the scout.  This appears to be how the ai hunts for mines.  Unfortunately this is not as effective against homing mines for the reason stated above.

The answer is for the next version of entrenchment to increase the mine detection range of the scouts.  This would make clearing mines without so much micro which seems to be the thread of discontent.  Mines are fun after all, but after the battle, its just an admin chore.

As an aside, last night I was playing Hyperions gate and the remaining ai had built more mines than I had ever seen around the only phase lane into it's choke point, its world's were on the other side of the choke point.  Then it put an upgraded starbase in the middle of the mine field and brought its entire fleet including 4 caps and positioned them just outside the mine field.  It also parked 4 hanger bays on the opposite side of the planet.  There was no way to jump around the mine field.  It was glorious.