Many moons ago, i ran a semi-nomadic blops gang with the alliance i was in at the time.
I had a hard JDC V rule which i only broke once.
This guy whined and moaned that i wouldn’t allow him in fleet. So, being the softy i am, i relented.
I warned him, repeatedly, that if we had a target out of his range, we’d leave him behind and he’d have to make his own way out. He didn’t have his own Covert Cyno alt.
So, we catch a dread out of his range. The fleet, and the fuel truck, all jump out leaving him deep behind enemy lines.
It took him three weeks, and a lot of help, to extract that blops. All the while he complained that we left him.
Never, ever again will i allow jdc iv on any blops op I’m running.
We killed the dread and some other tasty targets on that particular outing.
Or do, but understand your limits.
When I bought my first blops I had only JDC 4, but it was in the middle of WWB2 and we were staging out of T5ZI-S to drop on the next-door system 1DQ1-A behind a massively bubbled gate, as well as the rest of the systems in that constellation.
We dropped all day long for weeks on anything that moved and often I used my blops as well to get us in and out. It was a couple of LY at most and even JDC1 would have been enough.
Was fun!
Eventually I did get JDC5 though, would recommend.
lolz, i too was in WWBII staging from T5Z…
a horrific “sparks shooting out the ass of my graphics card” incident left me unable to play towards the end.
Evaccing my revelation out of there sometime after everyone had gone home was an interesting exercise.
Lets say i have a blops i have no buisness (or experience) flying, semi deep in enemy territory docked at a npc null station. …
What would be my strategy to get it out and back to low/high sec?
I do have a cyno alt. I just dont understand the ship i guess. All i want to do is get it out solo.
Here’s how i’d do it:
1: have patience.
2: plot your jump route using Dotlan’s handy jump planner. Be sure to avoid systems like Ahbazon, Aunenen Tama and the like.
3: if it’s a lot of jumps (3 or more) probe out systems within jump range of where your blops is, you’re looking for a direct k-space connection in the vague direction you’re heading. Scope out the systems on both ends of your wormhole. Ideally they’ll be empty. Make safespots in both systems.
Setup your cyno at a safespot, jump your blops, warp to the wormhole and jump through. Warp to your safe and Cloak up. Log your blops out if safe to do so (empty system or a lone venture etc)
4: recalculate your jump route.
5: repeat step three if a long jump route.
6: have patience.
7: if you’re in hisec, just gate your way closer to your destination. Ideally be able to jump directly there.
8: setup a 0km Dock bookmark at your destination station and a safe in system.
9: jump to destination, warp to dock bookmark, dock up. Breathe sigh of relief.
In all of this, you need to scout systems carefully and choose a time of day when those systems are quiet.
Have patience.
Oh, and make sure your wormhole is capable of taking the Battleship. “Larger” or “Very Large” holes.
Its in a Null NPC station not a wormhole. Im looking at dotlan now it looks like 2 jumps to low sec ? so confusing
But the jist is i need to get the cyno scout to the destination system of each jump , scout, light the cyno, jump…repeat ?
I understand that.
I’m suggesting looking for a wormhole leading directly to low or hisec that’s in range of where your blops is currently located.
Not all wormholes lead to j-space systems. You can get hi->hi, null->low, low->hi or any other combination as a random wandering connection.
Pretty much, yup.
That’s the basics of it.
i just got it out the old fashioned way haha took my time gate to gate super sneaky. it helps they warp off cloak fast. im sweating
i did use a wormhole to get it to high sec too =)
Well done mate.
Now to find a group to go hunting with 
thats the hard part as a solo wormholer lol im just parking this thing i guess
While I have never flown with them, you could try Bombers Bar?
As a NPSI group they seem to be a good place to find blops content for people who don’t have a group of their own (or even for those who already have a group). I just don’t know how active they are nowadays, haven’t heard of them in a while.
They’re very active.
I try and fly with them when i can. Get some good content and there are some excellent FCs and hunters.
You don’t need a blops. Just bring a bomber.
oh boy black ops are very fun, here was my journey back in the day when they where newish to the game and from my understanding never used in the way we used them due to being weak, poor tank/repair for the cost
spider tanking blops go! medic sin is best sin
and more expensive then capital ships
also before jump fatigue and conduit jumping.
yes we had shield rep drones as well, it was honestly silly, all of us could logi in someway, i was basically the tank, if i didn’t get jams (which always landed, vespa is silly)
Before I sold this character Othar
This was my kill list before irl stuff happened and corp split up
Friend invented his first widow and gave me it.
Just before we left our sov renter space, another friend got me 3 officer vespa jammers for 200 mill total.
We roamed and did ded complex with t3 ships and plexed all our accounts, could rebuild our fleet several times over if needed the next day.
Murdered the renters with our blops, and repeated the process.
we all had carriers/blops/t3s/scouts/haulers.
And just roamed shooting everything
Our JF kill still confuses me to this day
And yes, My Widow was max jamming fully skilled.
We where a weird spider tanking blops group with some force recons scattered about lol
after my corp poof i sold everything for a profit
free widow for over a bill
Each officer jammer for 1 bill each (3 bill)
Then retired to help a new friends corp lol
Dam I miss blopsiing, restarting my characters
(p.s. i did convo invites on how I am flying a widow thats basically over 4+ billion, back in the day when dreads/carriers where 1-2bill or so fully fitted, Hanger queen aint got no dust, it gots blood)
(this was also before ecm was changed)
Yes, I was insane being so blinged out AS A ECM ship lol, who normally died first, thing is, they gotta be able to target me, and or even be able to break my stupid shield buffer tank, or have cap cause reedmers+sins+widow+panthers are just broken death out of no where.
(sorry i am writing this post way best bed time, i should sleep…)
Daro Con | Character | zKillboard (this was my other main to before i sold it (was in a panther aswell, yes we where dual/tri boxing almost all of us where past fleet commanders from old renter alliance before bob went poof))