Surprise Surprise, Level 4
Faction: Amarr/Caldari
Mission type: Encounter
Space type: Normal
Damage dealt: EM/therm (amarr), kin/therm (caldari)
Extras:
Web/scramble: Web from Caldari Stasis Tower
Recommended damage dealing: Therm/EM (amarr), kin/therm (caldari)
Recommended ships: Golem, CNR, Raven, Domi
Single Pocket
Initial Spawn
Amarr Transport Ship (does no damage, has approx cruiser HP)Attacking the transport ship causes a respawn:
Wave 1
3x Battleship (random, normally imperial tanakh/ultara in different combinations)6x cruiser (imperial templar tamir/donus)
Destroying 2 of the battleships cause a respawn (the exact triggers seem to be random, one BS has no respawn trigger)
Wave 2 (this spawns on the destruction of the first battleship)
2x Battleships (state utaisho, state tenkyu)1x caldari stasis tower (over >180 web range )
Wave 3 (this spawns on the destruction of the second battleship)
3x Battleships (state utaisho, state tenkyu)1x caldari stasis tower (over >180 web range )
Blitz
Kill the Imperial Battleship which spawns on the Right Hand side of the room (Should the Battleship which spawns furthest from you), then kill the Stasis Tower, and the State Battleship which spawns slighty off from the other two - Mission Complete.
CategoryLevel4
Very easy apart from this annoyance.
Tanked in domi with three hardeners and a EANM, Meadium Armor Rep II tanks the damage fine.
I killed the cruisers in wave 1 first, then 2 amarr bs's to trigger the caldari spawn, killed those, then the last amarr ship, then the rest. Easy mission overall, the way i did it reduced the number of enemy Bs's on the field at one time.
Tags and other drops = 14 M, Salvage = 4.4 M
I only got a -0.02% standing hit to Amarr. and a -0.0% for the Transport aggression.
You still get the loot and salvage for a pretty small standing hit.