The Blockade, Level 4

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Faction: Sansha Nation
Mission type: Encounter
Space type: Normal space
Damage dealt: EM/Therm
Web/scramble: Elite Frigates
Extras: Heavy tracking disruption (Elite Cruisers)
Recommended damage dealing: EM (best), Therm (secondary)
Recommended ships: CNR, Raven, Rokh, Dominix, Abaddon

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 by killing the highest bounty battleship.
Exceptions to this are :

A whole reinforcement wave (typically Reinforcement Wave 1) may spawn battleships with the same name. It will be almost impossible to determine which is the trigger.
There will be occasions where a spawn group contains 4-5 high bounty battleships with the same name and 1 low bounty battleship with a different name. The low bounty battleship is the trigger.
In situations where all the battleships are the same name and bounty. One will usually spawn seperately from the rest physically, this is the trigger.

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 first reinforcement wave contain multiple Elite Cruisers which will render a turret ship almost useless with their heavy tracking disruption. These should be primary targets for a turret ship.

Initial Group (Auto-aggro): (25-33km)

3-4x Destroyers (Centior Abomination/Monster)
4-5x Battleships (Centus Savage Lord/Beast Lord/Overlord/Mutant Lord) Trigger (Centus Savage Lord/Beast Lord/Overlord)
1x Starbase Stasis Tower

Reinforcement Wave 1:

Back (70-80km)
3-4x Elite Cruisers (Centum Loyal Beast/Juggernaut/Slaughter) Tracking Disruptor
4-5x Battleships (Centus Savage Lord/Overlord/Mutant Lord/Beast Lord) Trigger (Centus Beast Lord/Overlord)
Bottom (65-75km)
2-3x Destroyers (Centior Cannibal/Misshape)
2-3x Elite Cruisers (Centum Loyal Fiend/Hellhound) Tracking Disruptor
Front (40-45km)
2-3x Elite Cruisers (Centum Loyal Beast/Juggernaut/Execrator) Tracking Disruptor
3x Battlecruisers (Centatis Wraith/Devil)

Reinforcement Wave 2:

Back (85-90km)
1-2x Elite Frigates (Centii Loyal Slavehunter/Savage) Tracking Disruptor
2-3x Battleships (Centus Savage Lord/Overlord/Mutant Lord) Trigger (Centus Savage Lord/Overlord)
Front (50-55km)
1-2x Destroyer (Centior Horror/Abomination)
2x Battleships (Centus Mutant Lord/Savage Lord)

Reinforcement Wave 3:

Back (70km)
2-3x Elite Frigates (Centii Loyal Savage/Slavehunter/Slaughterer) Tracking Disruptor
2-3x Elite Cruisers (Centum Loyal Execrator/Slaughter) Tracking Disruptor
1x Battleship (Centus Beast Lord/Savage Lord/Overlord) Trigger
Bottom (85km)
3-4x Battleships (Centus Dark Lord/Overlord)

Reinforcement Wave 4:

Left (50km)
3-4x Elite Frigates (Centii Loyal Scavanger/Minion/Ravener) Web/Scramble
3-4x Battleships (Centus Overlord/Dark Lord)
1x Battleship (Centus Tyrant) Trigger (Mission completion)

Tip

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 True Sansha battleship spawn may appear with the final wave. The chance is random.
Misson is flagged completed after you have killed the final Centus Tyrant battleship.

Blitz

Kill all the trigger battleships. You will need to snipe, or have a permatank with 2 reppers as the waves spawned will put out an incredible amount of DPS.
Kill the final Centus Tryrant battleship. Warp out.

Standing

Killing all the ships in this mission incurs one -3.0% and several -0.025% standing hits with Sansha Nation.

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I had the spawn with the juggernauts earlier today. However, I didnt have an overlord in that spawn. I had to attack one of the savage lords, and it looked like the rest of the spawn arrived.

-- YoinX (2008-06-21 12:41:48)

Several times now I've got a 5 Centus Savage Lords in the first reinforcement wave. They come from the same direction, have the same bounty and speed and I don't know any way of telling them apart. If you then happen to kill the trigger early, you might have to tank more incoming dps than you had prepared for.

-- StonE (2008-07-21 18:40:53)

I didn't link the blitz info to the common one posted in the Mission Reports. Imo, it's not consistent with respect to the other missions and I think the (The Blockade, Common info) article should be removed. There are plenty of other missions with identical blitzes, in which a separate common blitz can be created. A good idea? yes, in theory ... but why create unecessary extra links when you can do it with a few short lines in the original article. Keep it simple, keep it consistent.

-- SturmWolke (2008-07-21 21:38:23)

I completed this mission the first time by doing a BM, warping to it at 100km, setting a new BM and warpin to it at 50km to be out of the web tower range.

The first spawn had 5-10km range, not 30-33km, so the warpin point might be rather random. Most importantly though, all ships of all spawns aggro while closing in. If you stay at the beacon (0km warp-in) it surely is no easy mission to begin with.

-- TomSchlong (2008-07-23 17:47:58)

Range to the initial group is not random if you do not apply the warp in trick (to warp at any distance).

-- SturmWolke (2008-07-23 18:07:06)

Overrated to use BS's here, Ishtar flies through the mission, with just T2 fittings.

-- PatteSatan (2008-12-25 18:22:36)

easy to perma tank all spawns in a kronos with single rep, no drone agro, you just let em lose and take the ocasional pot shot at the BS's
Blits works, but lot of bounties to waste

-- ScatManworlds (2009-04-29 08:33:37)

Interesting phenomenon when I ran this mission, after turning in the mission, all of the structures from the mission were still in space. Not sure if it's designed that way now, or if it was just a glitch, but 3 different fleet members confirmed the still-existence of the structures

-- AevumDecessus (2009-05-26 23:00:55)

Very hard mission.
If your in a turret ship (like me). U need to avoid the triggers and target and kill the Tracking Disrupting cruisers (Very hard to get down) fast! And the drones are very useful and should be used. But if u keep ur ditance to the rats and follow the tips. It is manageable. Even for a bum like me. Takes a long time though. About 2,5 hours for me including loot and salvage. (Lost a couple of wrecks to the time limit)

Bounty: 18,1 mill
Loot and salvage: 22 mill
Mission: 2,6 mill
Total: 427 mill --> 17,08 mill/h

-- MrT (2009-07-18 10:54:21)

Seriously, has anyone encountered a True Sansha at the end?

-- DanFraser (2009-08-14 13:34:39)

Seems the mission got changed to deadspace without gates; warping to distance to a bookmark works however so it's not too bad.

-- AremonMoonserpent (2010-01-03 03:53:49)

Confirmed, i just got a True sansha spawn at the mission, it was a True Centus Plague Lord, 1m bounty, but its loot was worth 50m. It comes from the bottom, 120km away from the centre.. And this was my first time doing the mission:D

-- NuVioNcro (2010-01-14 16:03:23)

4.8 mil True Sansha bs appeared, dropped TS large crystal, named large em smartbomb, TS Large Cap Booster, TS Crystal Tag, TS Adaptive Nano Plating, Slave Alpha implant

-- AdemaroImre (2010-03-12 23:58:26)

True Sansha BS did appear, but no lewt :(

-- WrathofHell (2011-01-09 21:52:49)

New waves love to aggro your fleetmates, so be careful. Lost a Noctis that way before I had a chance to warp it out

-- Soapy5 (2011-02-20 23:26:44)

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