The mine takes 1.5 sec to fire, so fast units can just walk past.

The mines' firing range is 5 game units, compared to 6 of the Stalker, Marauder, and upgraded Hydra.

If you do come across one that has been burrowed, keep out of its range.

That is an eternity in game terms! Kill it with fire before it gets a change to do damage by focus firing it.

If Drilling Claws has not been researched yet, as typical in early game, the mines take 3 seconds to burrow.

If you do have to go through the choke, we'll deal with the mine by: b) If there are, your ball can't be seen by the mine, so you don't reveal too much info to your opponent.

This will a) tell you if there are mines placed or not.

Send a single scout through chokes points first, with your main ball out of visual range.

If you have a handful of units observing the map, these mines can easily be taken out before the plant. Mines can't attack if not burrowed, so moving it across the map to plant leaves it very vulnerable. This should be done anyway, but it's much more important against mines. Even a ball with units with 120 hp can be wiped out with three mines' splash damage, if clumped together enough!

Use units with high hp, preferably 200+.

Great for choke point play, especially with the splash damage.

If deployed early, the terran player can get decent map awareness in place.

125 Damage with 40 splash means 1 hit kills against quite a few units, even Mutalisks.

Multiple mines don't target the same unit.

Long burrow time if Drilling Claws has not been researched.

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