Can a fast minelayer trap a battleship at close range?

Could an Abdiel-class minelayer use its speed to bully a battleship with a close-laid minefield?

Not reliably: mines laid far away can be evaded, while laying them close enough to trap the battleship exposes the minelayer to point-blank main-battery fire.

The suggestion depends on the minelayer being able to outrun its opponent and place a field directly across the battleship's path. Ordinary standoff distances leave a fast capital ship too much room to turn away. Closing to roughly ten kilometres makes evasion harder, but it also puts even an armoured vessel inside extremely destructive main-battery range. A test battleship is destroyed in only a few salvos, implying that a lightly protected minelayer would fare worse. The answer concerns tactical geometry and exposure rather than a literal forecast from the game's damage model.