What is "8 mining?"

It's departed from 9 mining, but since 9 mining was abolished I heard of 8 mining.

Anyone care to explain?:p

 

Stacking 8 mines on top of each other and tricking the com to run into them.
Or stacking 8 mines by the com and hitting the com with a rocket or a mortar

 

If your going to try it, I think you had better use at least 16 mines and be ready to put some rockets into the comm afterwards. Those things are monsters, as it should be.

 

It's also a way of hoping that newbs don't got defusal on Escort

 

stacking mines makes them do less damage

 

Well, I doubt anyone would drive over 16 mines, one at a time without repairing

 

You've underestimated the noobs. I've seen someone drive into mines, not die, and then keep driving onto more mines until their tank dies.

 

Yes......but its great for flipping noobs in tanks

 

mines are better for anti inf

 

Mines are much more effective against heavy tanks with 3 - 4 on a stack. It's just enough to flip them. Otherwise you risk launching them to areas of the map best left untanked.

 

My 5 mine stack didn't kill a heavy on escort. Underpowered much?

 

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8 mines stacked will do about 100-150 less damage overall.

 

So what do you do? Space them a tiny bit apart?

 

I think by "stacking mines" they mean "mines that detonate each other" it seems

 

Na, it's literally laying 8 mines on top of eachother.

 

lol yeah.

To answer your question: You have to hit the mines one at a time. Their damage wears over the distance away, much like mortar damage. So if you hit 4 mines that are spaced out, you'll probably only do about 25% of the potential damage of those mines.

 

But they say stacking mines reduces damage...

 

It does. I believe it's because the force of the explosion is applied first, causing the damage to be applied second. When the damage is calculated, it seems to take into account the fact that the force has thrown the object further away for each explosion.

 

If I remember this correctly..
When a tank hits a mine it does 300 or some shit damage. Anything else that blows them up does 150ish damage (infantry). So with an 8 mine, one does 300 damage while all the rest do 150

(numbers are probably extremely wrong, but you get the idea)