The idea for Mine Tech first came up in Pumpkin Studios Official WZ bbs. We took it up as a goal in NEWST. It became a reality about 3 years later, after NEWST morphed into Pumpkin-2 and due to the efforts over those years of the legendary Stratadrake (along with 4nE), and was released as part of the Patch-Mod dubbed v.1.12. —Rman Virgil
Unlike the 1.12 patch, mines in the NTW mod have to be built with trucks. NTW introduced a wide range of new mine types, and also enhanced how they worked in many ways, for example showing radar blips to the owning player, and allowing mine layers to retreat a safe distance before the mine became active.
Unusual things
Here's some other unusual things and experiments from times gone by: