So I tried to invade an Advent planet with a decent fleet. Had about 13 capital ships, and around 80ish cruiser/frigate mix. A powerful fleet. Enough to charge into a planet, I would assume. That is until I got bombarded with homing mines, like a swarm of mosquitos.

I don't know if its a glitch or bug or what have you, but I jumped in then paused the game in shock and looked at the command bar. There was literally 800+ homing mines (that I counted in their stacks of 10) all hanging out on the left half of the planet. The whole left sideof the gravity well was painted yellow by these things.

Needless to say, I tried to get in range to take anything out and lost everyone of my ships save for one battleship that got eaten up by some leftover homing mines in my gravity well upon retreat.

Just waves and waves of these mines taking out my capital ships in one shot, just boom. I don't get it.. is this intended? I tried to use a scout ship to clear out some of these homing mines, but they didn't do anything. That, and what am I supposed to do about clearing these other mines? Any scout fleet would get decimated before even reaching the mines the way the AI had it set up... and it was on normal difficulty. The only alternative would be to send in waves of fleets to their sacrificial demise, but thats not my kind of strategy, I'm not much into zerging...

Thoughts.. ?