Schu Mine

[evilmedic]

Originally Posted by McGibs

AFAIK, ap mines are impossible to code in the bf engine. DC had them, (and they were HEAVILY abused, people were using them as proxy nades). After that, a BF engine patch compleatly buggered their code to hell. I havnt seen any other attemps by other mods as well.

isnt the shoe mine the little tiny one that was designed to blow off the toes of the person stepping on them (hence the name) thereby crippling them from military service? (no toes = extreamly hard to walk)

or am i thinking of something else?

Small...It had a 200g charge. It will most likely remove more than just the toes...
IRL, 200g charge will do the following damage.. (graphic material on that link)
http://www.ibiblio.org/freeburma/hum...ction_6-7.html

So land mines are a nasty peice of work.

[NoCoolOnesLeft]

Originally Posted by Anlushac11

The point of a minefield is to restrict enemy movement. You put up signs saying "Hey! mines over here!"

You want the enemy to know mines are there so they wont come there. What you dont want is for them to know how deep and wide and where gaps are.

Before the invention of the mineclearing vehicles used in North Africa minefields were a major almost impenetrable obstacle. The only way to clear them was to have sappers proble the ground with bayonets lookng for mines, the mine would then be gently dug up and disarmed or explosives palced on it and detoanted from a safe distance. The explosion often detonated other mines. The Germans also started planting Anti personnel mines to hinder sappers from removing vehicle mines.

Very true. My grandad was a Royal Engineer in Africa, his main job was to get rid of mines. A very grueling exercise that involved poking the ground with a bayonet or pocket knife, if you were lucky enough to have such things. He was never killed or seriously injured by one, although he had shrapnel in his face from when his jeep went over a mine, it killed his friend who was with him in the passenger seat. He had that shrapnel in his face till the day he died, which was only a year or two ago.