Proximity Grenade

The portable mine, this little beauty uses a weighted base and ultrasonics to set up a 3-meter detection circle with a 5-meter explosion. Exceedingly useful for mining corridors in base defense missions or "softening up" aliens emerging from UFO doors.

Tips & Tricks

• When mining a door, aim for one square away from the door, not the square next to the door. This detonates the grenade after the door opens.
• PG's detect movement into, but not out of, the eight surrounding squares, meaning you can walk away from a mis-throw
• PG's can safely be picked up by entering their square vertically (eg with flying suit)
• In some versions of the game, a bug allows an armed proximity mine to transfer its properties to some other item in the next mission, which then may explode unexpectedly
• PG's will trigger on movement on the far side of walls and doors, if dropped next to them
• The mine can be destroyed by explosives. Though it's only adviseable to destroy the mine if there's no alternative. Even with armour, the explosive should be set off as far away from the soldier as possible, as your under armour is by far your most vulnerable spot and no mistake.
• Just like every other live grenade in the game, it's safe to pick up a live mine and reposition it. However, it's highly recommended that live mines not be used in the grenade relay manoeuvre.
• If all else fails, and you are trapped with nowhere to move and no way to diffuse the mine: stay still. Don't move and wait until the bomb squad arrives (i.e. wait until the mission ends).

-- Collection of NKF-Sensei's posts by --JellyfishGreen 12:50, 25 Apr 2005 (BST)