3 : Massive Attack (Sansha's Nation)

[BarmaLINI]

Mission Name : Massive Attack
Agent Level : 3
Enemy : Sansha's Nation
Mission Type : DeadSpace (combo)

Link : http://eveinfo.com/missions/167

Briefing :
I have reliable reports that the Sansha's Nation has been gathering in a remote area within *** in preparation for a massive attack against a heavily armed convoy of ours scheduled to leave for Yulai in a matter of days. It may be the direct result of our attacks against their forces in the frontier, an eye for an eye sort of thing. But either way, we want you to deal with the problem.
We don't expect you to obliterate all of their forces, it's just too much put on the shoulders of someone like you. But what we do expect is the assassination of the overseer inside the Sansha complex. Those things are extremely reliant on authority figures. If the overseer is out of the picture, his forces will most likely crumble, at least temporarily.
I expect the overseer to be well hidden within the complex, so it's up to you to find him. It's not located within deadspace, but it is linked by a number of gateways. If I had a bookmark to his specific area I would hand it over to you, but unfortunately I don't at the moment so you'll have to find it on your own. Good luck.


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[Fish Mittens]

The bonus room seems to have changed.. there are still the Sansha' Demon's and Berserker's but no Centatis Daemon or Centum Loyal Hellhound.

Instead I was attacked by 2 types of ship that I could not find in the NPC database... 'Sansha's Guard Captain' and 'Sansha's Guard' .. they seemed to eat through my EM and Therm armor tank in seconds and I had to warp out fast... here are some entries from my combat log

[ 2006.08.18 15:34:13 ] (combat) <color=0xffbb6600>Sansha's Guard Captain strikes you perfectly, wrecking for 149.0 damage.

[ 2006.08.18 15:33:53 ] (combat) <color=0xffbb6600>Sansha's Guard places an excellent hit on you, inflicting 73.5 damage.

Has anybody alse seen this?

-Fish

[Fish Mittens]

Oh and step N4 was different too.. but not drastically...

The towers and the small frigs pretty much instantly respawn so there is not much point in attacking them.. just pop the overseer and you can use the gate to the bonus room.

[Dahak]

I've run this mission 4 times now and have never been able to find the silver tag
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[eleuthereus]

Ok, the Bonus Room on this mission will eat you up if you are not careful. I was taken down to 10% shield on a very well tanked ferox with 11,780 shield HPS, a Dread Gurista passive mod, and a Photon Scattering Field active I (curious about how a I would do). Also, just know that in the Bonus Room, you have 2 berserkers and 2 demons that warp scramble you, so once you are there you'd better be able to take out those 4 ships or else you ain't going anywhere.

By the time I took them out with 3 heavy launchers and 2 light launchers, I was down to 10%, then I was able to clear the bigger ships and my shield started eeking upwards again. My recharge rate was around 384 secs (nothing to sneeze at).

Oh, and BTW, after all of that - the overseer's bunker dropped NOTHING when it exploded. I fear that I should have just flown up to it and opened it without blowing it up. I'll try that next time. Finally, Sansha Tag was not used up upon entrance -- good for another go.

eleuthereus

[devilon]

I also popped the bunker and nothing was dropped. Before I did though, I flew close to see if it could be *opened* but found that it indeed could NOT be opened. I think the bonus is in the fact that between all the ships there, it's another 600,000 isk in bounties. Not worth it if you have to buy a silver tag.

Ships there for me: 1 Beserker, 3 Demons, 2 Guards, 1 Guard Captain.

Demons are the ones that will web you.
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[RangerZero]

I have done the mission today.
No intersting loot in the bonus stage. The Stash didn´t dropped a can
So, it is not worth to buy a Tag for it.

[nihilist]

Just finished the first step, I got attacked by a different set of ships.
2x Centum Juggernaut
3x Centum Beast
1x Centii Enslaver
1x Centii Plague

Will update with the other stuff as I (hopefully) complete it.

[bpdlr]

I did this today, and for a start, I didn't get any respawn in the first rooms after about an hour. Also, I got the Guards in the stash room (2 x Guards, 1 x Guard Captain, plus the 2 zerkers and 2 demons) The stash itslef dropped a drone and a Social Adaptation Basic implant.

[Twigsta]

The Sansha's battletower in room 4 contains loot.

[amax]

Did the mission today, and the overseer stash dropped an Ocular Filter - Basic and a heavy drone. Not too shabby! Hope I get it again.

[Ico]

I destroyed the Overseer's stash and got a Neural Boost - Basic and a drone. All told, I got about 30 million in drops, 2.75 million in bounties, and 1.5 in mission reward. I did this mission a half dozen times in, say, the two month's before Revelations and I never once received a drop from the stash. So that's good.

[Minnanon]

[Gantian]

The silver tag is not obtained on this mission. It's from another.
We have lots of tags in the corp hangar, and only 2 sansha silvers, so they're fairly rare...

[msb4u]

Use medium weapon or light missles, dont forget drones

In stage 5 dont forget to destroy Overseer's Stash, i allways got nice loot

You'll be all time warp scrambled on this stage

Wish u fun

msb4u