A variant of "Ordnance Tubes". Equip bombs / Mines in your Hardpoints. Normal rules, only one bomb or mine per turn. Do not discard the card. If you need an Action to launch it must come from the section when the bomb is loaded.

Simply an untested idea. Critics welcome.

I think Mine laying/bomb dropping versions of the Gozanti and Transport would be awesome. Only issue is how to put the cards out. You would need a Scum equivalent ship to come out with cards to that effect. So i'm hopeful, but not optimistic.

Really looking forward to Heavy Tractor Beam upgrade for Huge ships which is surely already in the pipeline.

I think the one mine/turn should be per launcher. If two hardpoints were designated as mine throwers you should be able to drop two a turn from the same section just like firing secondary weapons. Use the same firing arcs for the gun mounts they replaced. Maybe allow for a third to be dropped dead astern. This one should require an action.

Scum could use one on a GR-75 using the movement template aligned to either the side of the front base or the side of the trailing base.

You might have to limit it to mines. The huge ship may not be able to clear the blast radius of bomb tokens. Or maybe allow them the use of the speed 2 template.

May have to try this out Sunday. There's going to be a limit on the number of mines/bombs carried as well as a cost for multiple reloads. Extra Munitions is too cheap for a big ship.

You can make the Corvette a mine layer.

Sabine + Ordnance Tubes + Extra Munitions lets you drop two during the game for the low low price of a crew slot, a mod slot, a hardpoint, and 9 points + the cost of the bomb card.

My basic and untested idea does not include EM cards. Simply use bombs / mines like ordnance, no limited ammo.but only one per round. A straight 2 and you clear the blast radius. I will do some maths and test it, the image of a majestic Huge dropping rows of explosives is a powerful.one

Why not have them use a larger template, maybe any of the 3 speeds, to represent the launcher. Could have them launch from the side as well