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Experiences (from 2003) tell me that at that time GDs were after
minelaying, might have changed something but I do not think so. At that
time I used in total (4 games - 3 as Cents) over 100 GD ships to blow
up minefields and I have never seen in any of the games anything which
would even suggest that GD explosion is not after minelaying. And many
of these ships had 0 exp and not much skill either.
Scytale wrote:
> Even though some have said that GD sweeps newly laid mines, I'm not
> convinced they always go last. It depends whether mines have their own
> turn in the host sequence or if they are handled along with the rest of
> the devices. If both minelaying devices and GDs are simply handled as
> devices in turn, it may be that it simply matters which ship gets
> handled first. Which theoretically is determined by ship XP, but that
> theory has come into question lately.
>
> Sims of ships with different XP levels combined with more sims of ships
> with different object IDs could tell the whole story.
>
> Scytale