- We are deploying for Delve for 4 days

- Pods only, ships will be handed out

- PR- is the staging

- Camping delve, shutting down activies

- Burning down goon's ihubs and ECs

- Miners/caps will not be saved back home during the blitz

THE BLITZ

Effective immediately we are deploying to delve for 4 days. This is an alliance wide deployment.

The goal of this deployment is to hit goon assets in their homeland specifically:

- ihubs (entosis)

- citadels (bashing)

- ratters and whales (camping and ganking)

- block isk making (afk cloaking and hunting to reduce ADMs)

By hitting valuable assets in Delve we open a second front and force goon's hand into constantly jump cloning or down right panic and cut their deployment short in order to run home and prevent beans from setting their carpet on fire.

EXPERIMENTING WITH SOVIET DEPLOYMENT AGAIN

Soviet deployment was one of the early tactics of horde, and it meant deploying in naked pods with the corp providing free ships for every op, mostly cheap handouts. For this op we have sank about 60 bilions so far to get beans free ships ranging from canes, svipuls, bombers, ceptors and tons of t1 cruiser hulls.

So simply move over to PR- in a ceptor or pod, set home clone in the npc station and leave a jump clone in 7rm.

BUILDING ON THE INFESTORS, THE SLOT SHEET FOR OPS

Something that has worked well for the infestor ops was having a sheet with slots that get filled as FCs claim slots for ops. This greatly increases the frequency of ops compared to using the timerboard at the top of the forums, and also makes the ops much more regular and predictable for the beans. So we are doing the same with this deployment.

This is the (work in progress) op sheet:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/18O5ADtIDKANDXwG6Qlr0jmIv0u0Y9jky5IujoMAqq_s/edit#gid=1397669171

This is for main formups by the way, feel free to form impromptu ops or post other ops outside of it.

[IMPORTANT] TEMPO

Again we are experimenting, but the idea is to have 4 days in delve, 3 days back home. Monday-Thursday in Delve, Friday-Sunday back north.

It is easy to redeploy back and forth when members dont have to seed their own ships, because after the initial JC installation it is just a matter of pressing one button to deploy or undeploy. This is highly experimental and we will see if it works out or is just a mess and needs tweaking.

This means although the initial blitz is only 4 days, we will keep going 4 days in 3 days out repeatedly until we decide it is no longer worth it, or until we force goons to run home.

Likewise, the Tax will be adjusted back and forth to reflect the tempo. During the days in which we are back home (Friday to Sunday) the tax will be reduced to one 3rd (3%), whereas in the days we are deployed, the tax will be tripled to 30%. Everyone is supposed to join the deployment, but in case you prefer to support the deployment by staying back and ratting then the tax will help with that. Homeguard is also disabled during this campaign, as the isk generated is used for the handouts instead.

tl dr:

BLITZMODE

4 days in delve - monday to thursday: 30% tax

3 days home - friday to sunday: 3% tax

homeguard disabled and isk being used for handouts instead (homeguard gobloons earned until August 22nd will still be paid out)

FC I'M IN DELVE WAT DO

If a strategic op is going on join that. If there isn't one, then feel free to shit up the place however your heart whispers you to, from hunting ratters, setting up camps, random entosis, even just grabbing some bros and reffing a raitaru. Delve is vulnerable US tz, Querious is vulnerable EU tz. Theres a lot of low ADM systems in both regions vulnerable almost all day though. I am looking forward to being once again surprised by the beans ability to cause mischief.

FREE SHIPS

Mentioned before but anything you do in delve you should be able to get a free ship from a dir. A lot of it will be cruisers and dessies and frigs infestor style but we also have more specialized ships as well as tons of entosis boats. If you need something special, ask a dir or ask a JF service if they can ship it to PR for you. We can also manufacture stuff locally in G-TT and in the raitarus in PR--.

FOR RICH BEANS: DONATIONS TO THE HANDOUT POOL

If you are wealthy af and wish to support this fun blitz, feel free to donate to the char called Horde Fund 367722a3a0.jpg

ALL the isk sent to this character will be used to buy free ships for the beans in PR-. If you have some wacky request for your donation let a director know (please no hull tanked drakes).

Any questions feel free to ask ITT