Proximity Mine

Proximity Mine is a munition type in .

Background
Standard proximity munition. DRADIS IFF sensors determine when a hostile unit breaches detection range, at which point the munition releases an explosive shrapnel payload, damaging all ships within the blast area.

Placement Strategy
Proximity mines are rather tricky, relying mainly on the player’s instincts to place then correctly. Manually guided, they have a short detonation range, but deal massive damage to armor.

Because they’re manually guided, these are best used against slow moving targets such as basestars and carriers. However they can be used to decent effect in the initial push to meet the enemy fleet, as you can predict that the two fleets will meet somewhere in the middle. Aside from that, their placement is purely instinctive.