Posted - 2010.09.21 08:25:00 - [1]

 

TL;DR: Usual tactics for killing a t3 with a covert ops in wormholes, where the first they know about it is the thing 5km away locking them.

N.B. I dualboxed the covops and Curse, corpie was in new Cynabal, our home is nicknamed SNA (it's a den of Vipers )

Cov ops pilot goes in c3. Within the 30 seconds session timer (and I believe it's really all about not running out of the ~60seconds autocloak), dscan with: only ships & probe filter; ships & pos filter; drones/wrecks/cans filter, (all clear ), rightclick orbit WH at 30km with fingers poisted on Fnumbers for MWD then cloak, basically hit together if >2km from WH, small pause between if you know you need to burn away to get the cloak on. Now BM the WH, give the Jnumber to the guys, know the static and effects, warp to celestials off of dscan once you're far enough not to reapproach/cross the hole while aligning. Hear back about activity.

Find POS on dscan, 3 haulers, 3 cap ships . Find POS planet, moon, note hauler not at POS. Find hauler's nearest celestial on d, see hauler result become a bubble. Ok so he's moved on and left that but there's probably a WH that way.
3 piloted haulers, 3 empty cap ships in FF. BM tower, warp at 70km(<100km so you can view pilots, check guns/tanks & direction), move out to 150mk+ to do this if not already, or warp out if you dare leave grid to possibly save movement time. 2 haulers approached to POS mods, other 1 just flat from a warp/log in. That's ok, active pilot just bubbled a WH, could be planning for anoms. 30second Systemscan while waiting on grid with POS shows 1 anom within 4AU, no probes used.

A little time passes, decide to go to the planet off dscan and drop probes. Covops only jumped into c3 once combats were loaded, so just get max number launched (7 for me) asap while approaching POS planet, mwd-cloak-warp (ensure cloaked before warping back onto pos dscan), drag probes deep off any dscan from any possibly celestial, hit scan to actually move them there.

With eyes on POS, move probes at max 64AU range, get sig and anom count, only that 1 anom from before, only 5 sigs, not certain which is our size10 K162 back to SNA yet, easy to mix it up with the size 10 U210 static lowsec. Note ship sigs in exploration, and with careful dscan at 32AU, get the obvious large cap ship sigs and smaller hauler ones. Eliminate the caps for now.

Manage to probe down SNA WH as it's off dscan from POS (just put 1 probe at 0.5au on the sig, scan, see the obvious result). Also get a different WH, leave POS grid to find it's the static lowsec, view info on it asap to see it's brand new yet to start cycle. OK less good, the guy just bubbled something else and maybe didn't know it wasn't the static (don't know if U210s are also dynamic from c3s, could be 2 in here). Or they feel safe with that bubble on an incoming hole and know the old eol lowsec can't let in people via the new one until they scan it.

Back to POS, hauler's moved down to ship hanger, good, still active, could well be ready to do that anom.
Wreathe becomes Loki, we have a winnner , ensure probes are all well off dscan from anywhere again, but don't recall them. Didn't get a chance to view t3 to see subsystem choices and tank/guns.
Loki warps off. Not in the anomoly. Chase t3 out to a planet, then a moon, end up with him on dscan in space in front but nothing else there. It could be the old EOL lowsec, definately not where that fresh bubble was. Consider combat probing him while he seems to be sitting there, can't really be on the old EOL static but maybe hasn't noticed it's gone. Bring probes to 32AU, get ship sigs, eliminate all of these except the new one.

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