The Blockade, Level 4

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Faction: Blood Raiders
Mission type: Encounter
Space type: Normal space
Damage dealt: EM/Therm
Web/scramble: Elite Frigates
Extras: Heavy NOS (Corpus Harbinger |Corpum Priest/Sage | Dark Corpum Priest/Sage | Elder Corpum Priest/Revenant/Arch Templar), Tracking disruption
Recommended damage dealing: EM (best), Therm (secondary); Max orbit 50km
Recommended ships: Abaddon, Apocalypse, Dominix.

Note: The number of ships in a reinforcement wave will vary randomly. This variance will be indicated in the ship numbers.

Single Pocket

Auto-aggro from Initial Group at warp-in. No aggro on drones.

Reinforcemement waves are triggered, generally by killing the highest bounty battleship.
Exceptions to this are :

A whole reinforcement wave (typically Reinforcement Wave 1) may spawn a group of battleships with the same name. It will be almost impossible to determine which is the trigger.
There will be occasions where a group contains 3-4 high bounty battleships with the same name and 1 low bounty battleship with a different name. The low bounty battleship will be the trigger.

Group spawn locations for the reinforcement waves are Front, Back, Left and Bottom with respect to the (Minmatar) Merchant Gate in the center.
(if you look at the Minmatar gate, the gate's front entrance = Front and the gate's back end = Back)

Warning

The NOS ships will drain your ship capacitors heavily. Kill ALL the NOS cruisers/elite cruisers first. You can ignore the Corpus Harbinger battleship's NOS since its draining effect is fairly minimal.
It is recommended that you fit Heavy Capacitor Boosters with Cap Booster 800 if you are unfamiliar with your ship's capabilities to handle this mission.

Initial Group (Auto-aggro): (26-28km)

3-4x Destroyers (Corpior Friar/Devoter)
4-5x Battleships (Corpus Apostle/Oracle/Monsignor/Harbinger) Trigger (Corpus Monsignor/Harbinger)
1x Starbase Stasis Tower

Reinforcement Wave 1:

Back Group (80-83km)
3-4x Elite Cruisers (Elder Corpum Priest/Sage/Arch Templar) NOS
4-5x Battleships (Corpus Apostle/Oracle/Harbinger/Monsignor) NOS Trigger (Corpus Harbinger/Monsignor)
Bottom Group (75-78km)
2-3x Destroyers (Corpior Friar/Visionary/Devoter)
2-3x Elite Cruisers (Elder Corpum Dark Priest/Shadow Sage)
Front Group (45-47km)
2-3x Elite Frigates (Elder Corpii Diviner/Raider/Reaver)
2-3x Battlecruisers (Corpior Shade/Fanatic)

Reinforcement Wave 2:

Back Group (86-89km)
3-4x Elite Frigates (Elder Corpii Seeker/Collector) Tracking Disruptor
4-5x Battleships (Corpus Cardinal/Harbinger/Monsignor) NOS Trigger (Corpus Harbinger/Monsignor)
Front Group (52-54km)
1-2x Destroyer (Corpior Friar/Devoter)
1-2x Battleships (Corpus Apostle/Oracle)

Reinforcement Wave 3:

Back Group (68-70km)
2-3x Destroyers (Corpior Friar/Visionary/Cleric/Converter)
2-3x Elite Cruisers (Elder Corpum Revenant/Arch Templar) NOS/Tracking Disruptor
1x Battleship (Corpus Harbinger/Monsignor) NOS Trigger (Corpus Harbinger/Monsignor)
Bottom Group (85-89km)
3-4x Battlecruisers (Corpior Bishop/Shade/Seer/Fanatic/Phantom)
3-4x Battleships (Corpus Cardinal/Monsignor)

Reinforcement Wave 4:

Left Group (50-53km)
3-4x Elite Frigates (Elder Corpii Follower/Worshiper/Herald/Upholder) (Web/Scram)
3-4x Battleships (Corpus Cardinal/Monsignor)
1x Battleship (Corpus Pope) Trigger (Mission completion)

Tip

In 'Reinforcement Wave 1', if you see only Corpus Oracles BS the next wave will spawn when the last Oracle has killed.
In 'Reinforcement Wave 2', if you see only Corpus Monsignor BS the next wave will spawn when the first Monsignor has killed.
If you stay in the center, all spawns from the reinforcement waves will converge towards the center. Try to eliminate the closest groups as fast as possible before they all converge.
To warp into this pocket at any distance : Warp to mission location, quickly cancel it and then select warp your preferred distance. Keep in mind, it may put you closer to a spawn location.
You can also snipe by creating sniping bookmarks > 150km apart. Drop a cargo container at each location. Warp from container to container as needed.
A very rare Dark Blood Archon battleship spawn may appear with the final wave. The chance is random.
Misson is flagged completed after you have killed the final Corpus Pope battleship.

Blitz

Kill all the trigger battleships. You will need to snipe as the waves spawned will put out an incredible amount of DPS.
Kill the final Corpus Pope battleship. Warp out.

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Pulled it off in a Nighthawk; tank was fine, damage output wasn't stellar.

-- MrMike (2008-06-24 23:58:28)

the trigger isn't always the lone BS, i had a spawn with a few Monsignors and 1 Apostle and one of the monsignors was the trigger

-- DarkiShi (2008-07-06 10:25:44)

Blitz: Kill trigger in every spawn (complete mission objectives asking you to "Kill their high-ranking officers")
IDK if it ever doable in L4, but I think it not worth trying. Bounty+loot+salvage worth way more than mission reward.

-- TontoAuri (2008-07-31 18:01:32)

Full spawn tank doable with kronos, as long as nos it killed from each spawn.
officer fit, 2 core b type EM hardners, 2 core b type thermal, DC2, Enam, corpum a type armor rep, 2 aux nano pump.
lvl 3 marauders skill. lvl 4 could swap out enam for cap power relay and nos wont be a problem.

-- ScatManworlds (2009-01-23 11:14:16)

Did it in a Drake. 1 Photon, 1 Heat, 1 Invuln, 3 LSE, 2 SPR, 3 CDFP. Took a while but never had to warp out. Just make sure you kill the Priests before they get close and cap you out. Also, the Harbinger Battleships will NOS as well and can be a real pain if they're the trigger at the same time. I'd suggest just keeping range at about 65km. Nothing will hit you and they'll all die eventually. Also, Thunderbolts are much better than Scourge, even with the 25% bonus from BC V.

-- OneShot (2009-03-17 23:25:41)

did it in an amarr navy faction fitted zealot with afterburner, just kill the cruisers with scorch ammo from range, after this you dont have to bother about nos as the battleships wont hit you at all.. no repair needed ;)

-- RhenAyase (2009-04-03 02:40:57)

Can also confirm blits works, but you miss a lot of bounties

-- ScatManworlds (2009-04-29 08:29:02)

ca. 1t 15min + clean up. Big mission.
Pocket 1: Flew away from them in my T2 fitted Rokh. Read the guide and follow it!!! (normal difficulty, because of the distance i get). Good to loot.

-- MrT (2009-09-18 16:31:37)

Can anyone tell me what agent you got this from?

-- InfiniteZer0 (2011-01-15 16:18:19)

You get it from any level 4 Amarr agent (Not 100% sure on Caldari agents) in Kador or any region where Blood Raiders are the native rats.

The same applies to Angel, Serpentis, Sansha. There's no level 4 Guristas Blockade. Or if there is, CCP has never seeded it long enough for info to surface.

Sidenote, Nightmare/Paladin = easy mode for this. Usually completes in 30 minutes. Just make a habit of primarying the HACs first.

-- ForteEXE (2011-01-18 02:30:18)

ok, cool.

Guess I was missioning in the wrong region, getting all those Sanshas. :)

-- InfiniteZer0 (2011-01-20 22:25:58)

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