Quickly, not sure. Maybe you could have some frigates skirt it and then shoot a Kostura at the area?

The way I go with is a scout frigate or two and some flak frigates, but those take a while and need some micro to not get themselves blown up.

Just watched the AI do a number on my mine field. Scouts plus those starfish thingys. Had my field cleared in seconds. Good thing I had a solid fleet behind it.

Supposed to be fixed in 1.02 patch

We just played a Lan game last weekend; mines were a bane.  We even made a fleet of 10 scouts and 10 flaks, sent them in, lots still blew up, and what little is left was wiped out by fighters/bombers before they could even start clearing out the rest of the mines.  We finally gave up, and just make like a fleet of 20 suicide scouts and send them in first to blow up themselves and the mines . . .

I don't know why but putting scouts of hold position seems to work out very well for me for cleaning out mines.  They seem to be able to just drive past the mines to detect them rather than stop and use their ability.  Doesn't always work for me if I don't put them on hold position though.  Using a scout or two plus a battleship seems to work well with their omni-directional guns.

Don't kostura's clean out mine's if they've been detected? 

Mine limit at any planet is 150. Its about 400 at Stars I think.

20 scouts and flak should clear mines in no time. Send in SC as well as they rapidly clear mines.

Sending in a proper fleet as well while putting them on "hold position" also helps.

Hi!

Vs. AI, and after I cleared most structures and ships from the grav well, I just ran my 8 cap ships (all level 7+) over those homing mines, one "pocket" of ~20 mines at a time. They took damage only to shields, but the shield restoring ability of my Advent Mothership repaired them in no time.

To attack through a heavily mined phase line, I usually jump in ~5 scouts on the very edge of the grav well, and manually ordered them to attack a mine deep in the minefield. They reveal lots of mines there before they die, so when I jump in with my main fleet, it could clear those mines. Then some scouts, that jumped in with the fleet, reveal more mines, usually making a (mostly) clear path for my fleet to the center of the grav well. However this approach works for me on my old comp, because there a late-game second takes three or more seconds of the real time, so I have time to do that MM. But for advent mines I don't have a cheap answer. I simply need to sacrifice some ships.

It would be cool if advent mines would decloak after they move to a target.

BTW did anyone notice mines re-cloak, if they aren't destroyed soon after they are de-cloaked by a scout?

BR,  Iztok

Hi!

Even de-cloaked they still detonate if you fly over them, so they need to be cleared first, so they still remain usfull as a time-buying device.

BR,  Iztok