Revelations 1.4 new mission : Attack Of The Drones (lvl 4)

[Saru]

Mission briefing
I want you to escort a convoy of trade goods heading out towards our headquarters. It's just a formality, but a necessary one nonetheless. You'll find a bookmark to their current location inside your NeoCom.

Deadspace : No

Objective
Fly to the convoy and escort it back to base.

Step N1:
1 x Defeater Alvatis
3 x Bomber Alvum

Step N2:
3 x Alvus Ruler
3 x Bomber Alvum

Step N3:
2 x Alvus Ruler
3 x Marauder Alvior

Step N4:
2 x Alvus Ruler
3 x Strain Splinter Alvi
3 x Bomber Alvum

Tips: the strain drones in spawn 4 have strenght 2 scramblers. Warp in/out or kill htem fast

[arielstarfire]

Looking up the drone types in the database, they emphasize to tank for explosive, kinetic, thermal, em in that order for Alvus/ Alvum.

But upon entry, i was mostly hit with EM, tank for EM first.

[Xantina]

Seems at least 1 of each kind of the first spawn is a trigger. I was swarmed shortly after killing the first drones and lost a tanked phoon as if it wasn't tanked at all.
I had read the hints on the mission about resist types and about the scrambler drones but in the end it didn't help, so:

Although the warp scramblers are "step 4" they might appear real soon if you trigger the spawns fast enough.
Also when I warped back at 100 to evaluate the mess I saw no less than 7 BS signature rats plus the frigate drones. No wonder they killed my Phoon so fast although I had breezed through "massive attacks" and "blockades" in it.
A smartbomb might have saved the day tho, killing the scramblers in time to warp out.
However at 600k + 600k and no bounties ... I'm wondering if this mission isn't one to turn down and gt a more profitable one. Way too tough for the reward imho.