has anyone ever heard of under water mines in this hobby because my idea doesn't involve cannons and stuff but spikes on a stick with a weight attached to the bottom of the stick and if a boat hits it, it either rips a hole in the balsa or snags it for a second and water rushes in and sinks the ship im going to try to make one and post a picture maybe
Keep in mind that the bottoms of hulls are permitted to be immpenetrable so you wouldn't be able to do anything that would be able to pierce the bottom of a hull. Also, to my knowledge, only bb cannons are permitted for fast gun.
How about putting PVC pipe under water and attaching it to a large lever valve. Must have a large air supply, like one of those metal spare air tanks or an A/C compressor. I am nbot sure if the PVC outlet would be better a few inches from the surface or much further down. I have a special way to activate this field and to sweep it using mine layers and sweepers. I figure it would defiatley capsize small vessels and maybe cruisers. BATTLESHIPS ARE THE UNKNOWN.
Adding to the PVC thing I wrote. You have to activate a field before you can use it. This is done by having a vessel that carried mines, to come within a 10ft circle and drop an anchored fishing cork with a small tear drop weight. Once that is done the mine field is activated. Minesweepers can remove this cork and de-activate the field. Only one cork per mine field activation allowed. Once removed the side with the field set can activate it again with the above procedure.
What would be interesting is if, the mine-layer only had so many mines, which went out like the real ships, and if the minesweeper had to cut the line between cork and wieght so that the cork went to the surface, and the wieght dropped.
This one is really open to discussion. I do not know if it will work this PVC minefield.I would have to experiment to do it on my own. WWCC hates mines and other such weapons that are not Big Gun related. See you have to propose a rule. If it passes then you can use it. How do you know if it works? No flexabilty. Milton Bradley game co. does not do it this way. Play testing is done on the product. The cork by the would not be underwater. It rides on the surface.
