Noobs in Combat Ship Hunting Mine Locations and Naval Route Guide

Ship Hunting features hidden naval mines scattered across open water lanes, while shallow water tiles remain free of mines. Navigating along coastal shallows or clearing channels with expendable units prevents devastating underwater ambushes on capital ships.

Ship Hunting serves as the sixth scenario in the hard-difficulty pacific front campaign, placed immediately after concrete battleship and right before the Final Blow. Players face an aggressive hostile flotilla while traversing narrow maritime zones containing concealed hazards.

Mine Layout and Water Terrain Mechanics

In the Ship Hunting scenario, naval mines occupy specific open-sea transit choke points rather than shallow shelf tiles. In recorded gameplay testing by the creators behind the "PACIFIC FRONT in Roblox Noobs in Combat" playthrough, players confirmed that shallow water areas contain zero naval mines.

Mines trigger when surface vessels sail directly over their coordinates, instantly destroying lighter craft and dealing catastrophic hull damage to heavier hulls. If your fleet blindly drives heavy combatants into unrevealed waters, a single mine detonation can sink your advance.

Pushing forward blindly into deeper channels risks losing high-cost assets early in the turn cycle. Staying within shallow channels prevents mine hits, though shallow water alters navigation speed and tactical positioning.

Pacific Front Ship Hunting Objectives

The primary objective during Ship Hunting requires your coalition to eliminate four enemy cruisers on normal and hard difficulties, expanding up to seven cruisers and accompanying capital vessels on higher difficulty settings. Secondary targets include enemy destroyers, torpedo boats, and defensive coastal installations.

Neutralizing the coastal battery grants friendly fire support, allowing players to bombard hostile naval targets that step into range. The map also features friendly cargo transport positions, enemy strike planes, and reinforcement points situated behind initial hostile lines.

Completing scenarios across the Pacific Front rewards players with nuggets, which are spent in the tech tree to unlock advanced hull variants and specialized equipment.

Fleet Selection and Combat Roles

Building an effective navy requires balancing spotting, range, and direct firepower. A dedicated battleship offers long-range salvos capable of devastating fortified points and enemy armor, though its slow firing cadence demands spotter vision to avoid inaccurate misses.

An aircraft carrier can deploy dive bombers and spotters, but long refueling turnaround times make carriers slower at handling sudden hostile surface rushes. Instead, combining battleships with support craft provides steady offensive pressure.

Light screening vessels provide essential route support:

• Destroyers: Act as active escorts against surface vessels and provide responsive medium-range gunnery.
• Missile Boats: Function as high-output glass cannons, delivering heavy strike damage against cruisers before hostile return fire connects.
• Torpedo Boats: Cheap strike assets that can run ahead into open waterways to uncover enemy line of sight or absorb mine hits.
• Seaplanes: Reconnaissance aircraft deployed from tenders or capital decks to light up targets across the fog of war.

Tactics for Clearing Ship Hunting

Target acquisition in naval combat is tied to line of sight. Firing into unseen fog causes shots to miss or fail to activate entirely. Launching a seaplane or moving a forward recon vessel into spotting distance reveals enemy cruisers before your heavy guns commit their attacks.

Hostile destroyers often activate radio attacks, which suppress or restrict allied counterattacks during the combat round. Prioritize sinking destroyers and missile craft quickly to prevent them from locking down friendly firing options.

Once the initial forward cruisers fall, advance along the mine-free shallow waters toward the hostile staging area. Use coastal artillery batteries captured along the route to support your fleet, then finish off the remaining heavy warships using concentrated salvos from your battleships and missile boats to complete the mission.