OPS Less Little Amsterdam

July 9th 2017
158 fields
63.2 Million Mind Units
8 black illuminators

After ops Little Amsterdam we were enthusiastic. About covering Amsterdam again. About having so many agents participate. About the nice weather. Everything.

Then a lot of keys for the Vinkeveen islands suddenly became available and the plan was born: we would do Little Amsterdam again....just, LESS little....

Or so we thought. The field to Zandvoort hardly yielded more mind units than the field to Spaarndam. Still, 400k per layer is nothing to spit at and 8 agents managed to earn their black illuminator medals, 1 agent achieved platinum.

Frogs intercepted, like we knew they would. Anchors were flipped and our intricate network of guide links was breached. After recovering as best we could, we completed 158 of the planned 184 fields and called it a (beautiful) day.

Everybody went home satisfied and with a good night's sleep ahead.

Thanks to all the agents who made yet another successful Resistance operation possible: 4Jackzz, 88CCFF, Angeleyes003, BlueFluas, Buizerd, Chiisaikuma, Cristarius, Disconnected404, DoctorFoxy, ElAwrence, ElChaoto, enerene, Euxi, Fortifer, FREEM4N, Galanas, GCFalcon, Hellbringer007, Hessley, Iffel, J1pster, KiraKage, Klemmett, knapzak, Lordpalf, LuckyDazzle, Madgick, MMezereum, MunchWillbeBlue, Mvml, oilpink, Pendecker, PieterBass, pietp, RealRouge, RedCatWithBoots, Revvvs, Schoentoon, Se4horse, Seraphix, Shad0wdancer, Skiplok , stargate88, Veritas1970

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OPS Little Amsterdam

Sunday June 11th 2017
71 fields over Amsterdam totaling 27.5M MU, earning 4 onyx illuminator badges

"I like to play with things a while, before annihilation" - Ming the Merciless

The Hulk Smash World Tour, a leaked worldwide enlightened operation: _'Wiping clean the cities and towns of the world!! And getting to those HARD portals your local resistance have had control of the longest, or are most confident about'_. It had us shaking in our boots, pooping our pants and fearful of opening our scanners. The resistance agreed that the best thing would be to hide in bomb shelters and wait this one out…

All of the resistance? No, one small group of indomitable agents still held out against the invaders. Despite the scary prospect of the Hulk Smash, they dared to pick up their scanners and force-clear a multilayer field over Amsterdam at 7pm on a Sunday evening: 88CCFF, Angeleyes003, BlueFluas, Cristarius, Cursan, DoctorFoxy, ElAwrence, ElChaoto, End3rw, Fortifer, Gabacor, Galanas, GCFalcon, Hellbringer007, Iffel, Lordpalf, Madgick, MunchWillbeBlue, oilpink, PurDee, Revvvs, SAHillie, Shad0wdancer, stargate88.

We quickly divided tasks to finalize the link plan, recruit agents and farm keys. The question was if we could force clear the corridors during busy waking hours in the weekend. It turned out we could!! No deliberate opposition was encountered during clearing and within 44 minutes the first fields went up. Great work of all the clearing teams!

Towards the end of the operation enlightened agents siemp, nibbix, Scribblon and Guidoowtjuhh threw some blockers and proceeded to visit the Spaarndam anchors.We had sent our clearing teams home to watch the show but luckily enough some of them were still available to come out and set things right. Within about 15 minutes the corridors were open again and fielding continued.

We didn't have very long rows of portals to field to and also no huge amount of keys so only 61 fields were planned. Thanks to keys dropping off flipped portals and enlightened destroying anchor portals for us we managed to make 10 more for a total of 71 fields and 27464448 MU. Onyx illuminator badges were earned by agents Angeleyes003, Cursan, Lordpalf and PurDee.

I'm pretty sure the Hulk Smash was more of a Hoax Smash, although we still pee a little when we see enlightened making portals green in Amsterdam. Luckily that doesn't happen very often.

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+NIA Ops +Susanna Moyer +Vicki Ellen +Julia Vivienne Loverdose +Anne Beuttenmüller +Matilde Tusberti +Ingress Resistance Netherlands

OPS De Kop Eraf

January 28/29th 2017

1058 fields over Noord Holland for a total of 85 million MU
2 million MU on 2 checkpoints
13 black illuminator badges



We had a lot of portals
We had a lot of keys.
Now there remained the question:
"What do we do with these?"
The answer was quite obvious
Since it was done before
We made a lot of fields of course,
But this time we made more...

Moar statistics
Agents: 23
Keys: 1992
Portals: 45
Duration: 66 minutes of clearing, 10 hours of fielding
Fields: 1058 fields of around 80k MU
Total MU: 84.802.900
Checkpointed MU: 1.6M and 321k
Badges: 28 (1 bronze, 1 silver, 3 gold, 8 platinum and 13 black Illuminators, 1 gold trekker, 1 silver explorer)
Average speed: 36 seconds per field

Agents
4Jackzz, 88CCFF, Buizerd, charlygolf, ChiisaiKuma, Chixe, Dennixx, DoctorFoxy, ebuh, enerene, Erik050572, Fortifer, GCFalcon, GetRickt, Gukumatz, handleiding, iffel, klok7, molspof, MunchWillBeBlue, RubyRedhead, Se4horse, Zorglubxx, ZZSmurf.

Did you know
There was another RES ops in Friesland going on a the same time: 'A Smurf To Far' (sic). Sitrep: https://goo.gl/urHHK4

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OPS Wookie

Friday December 16th 2016

74 fields over Utrecht totalling 9.7 million MU
8 illuminator badges (4 gold, 4 platinum)




"I suggest a new strategy, Artoo. Let the Wookiee win."

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Getting to know a new playing area is fun and challenging. Many new portals and agents with different daily routines, different blue/green areas, different possibilities for fields. Diving in headfirst I decided to attempt a little field over Utrecht. After some drawing and rallying Ops Wookie was on its way.

It turned out there are many enthusiastic RES agents in the area, ready to do some fielding. In no time we had many agents on board and more signing up as the weeks progressed. Key farming is a breeze nowadays with the increased drop rate so all that remained was a smart plan for clearing the corridors and applying guide links.

With everybody in position we were optimistic that our corridors would be clear within half an hour. But alas, them pesky blockers kept popping up on the south and east corridors, forcing us to deploy more and more teams. Finally, two and a half hours later our first field went up from Odijk: 129784 MU.

Soon after our first field ENL showed up on our doorstep in Loosdrecht. Anchors were flipped, bursters were fired, AXA's were deployed making our life generally less relaxed but never succeeding to put an end to the fielding. We even found a capsule filled with X8, presumably dropped from an ENL -backpack- account.

After switching corners from Odijk to Woerden ENL were arriving there too. Luckily we had nearly 30 agents on the anchors by now, making sure we could keep on fielding, albeit a bit slower than planned. Next we made several fields from the corner in Loosdrecht and thought we were done. This was around 2am, five and a half hours after the operation started. However, agents therokscom, DJApollo and Yoshi4184 decided to wait for portal immunity to pass and returned to shoot the final six fields from Odijk just before 3am.

Shout out to all the agents who participated in this operation: 4eversmurf, aenemrah, AlmightySteve, AntRoe (platinum illuminator), Buizerd, Disconnected404, DJApollo (platinum illuminator), DrScarpetta (platinum illuminator), Eagle1982, Esileensanus, Fortifer, hgdhag (gold illuminator), iffel, JeBuurman, Jefvhal, JeVriend, LdeB, Luckydazzle, Madgick, mila8810 (gold illuminator), Munch WillbeBlue, Onkie (gold illuminator), parakoort (gold illuminator), Realrouge, RubyRedhead, stargate88 (platinum illuminator), Sv3nvs, TheFons, therokscom, Tymen, volharder, Yoshi4184

Many thanks also to all ENL agents who took the time to block our corridors and battle with us: Without you this would be a boring game indeed.

"Soft Wookie, warm Wookie, great big ball of fur"
"Angry Wooky, hairy Wookie, Grr Grr Grr"

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OPS Osdorp Hapsnap Field

13 November 2016
By @Fortifer & @Bal512

"Niet omdat het moet, maar omdat het kan"

6 x 23k MU fields

We decided in the afternoon to make this field, since there were only, 3 green blockers and 2 blue ones. Only having keys for Kerk Schiphol we went to ACTA to farm some more. Bal512 would clear in Geuzenveld and Osdorp, since that's his normal playing area. Fortifer would hang out in Halfweg until the right time to clear and then move to 'Wipslakkies' in the harbour area to set up the field links which Bal512 would close from ACTA. During the day some more green blockers appeared, but manageable. Farming started at 20:30, clearing at 21h, fields went up around 22h. Nice.

ENL agent @Erwin1975 decided to travel to Kerk Schiphol to kill the field. Fortifer noticed this on his way back from beergress and decided to drive out, retake the portal and reshoot the field. Erwin1975 noticed and shot some extra blockers from Bulderbos which had to be cleared first. So back in, and towards ACTA to close the field from there to Kerk Schiphol. This happened, but within a minute Erwin1975 killed the field again on his way back from Bulderbos. Anyway, that made 6 layers in total and a lot of fun. Erwin, thanks for the opposition!

Time lapse by Fortifer

(Animated GIF below by Bal512)

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OPS Griend un-greened

The island Griend bears a single, hard-to-reach portal frequently used by ENL for field operations. The island is currently no longer inhabited (there used to be a couple living there, watching the birds) and even the yearly excursion can no longer be made. So the only way to reach the portal on Griend nowadays without trespassing is by airplane.

Friday August 26th, the day before the Via Lux anomaly I decided we should better be safe than sorry this time - the portal was used during Aegis Nova - and make 'Vogelwachterhuis Griend' blue. Several phone calls and hangout messages later a plane was arranged and after lunch agent @handleiding and myself (@Fortifer) were on our way to Paracentrum Texel. We missed the intended ferry due to a crazy amount of tourists to Texel but luckily there was a crossing each 30 minutes this period so we could still make it in time.

The weather was great for flying, sunny and clear so we could see all the Dutch wadden islands stretched out before us.

In the words of agent @handleiding:

"We had to make several passes before we could neutralize the portal. Deploying was the second challenge. Once the pilot got the feeling of flying in reach of the portal he managed to bring us directly above it three times so we could do our thing."

"I was really thrilled that we went on a plane to do what only few Ingress players before us have done. I can't express the feeling I had when we accomplished our goal. The most difficult thing was to get the resonators deployed at a nice distance, because the speed was limiting us to deploy just one at a time. Special thanks go out to our pilot Lars, because it is really, really difficult to get in range of a portal when flying at 1500 feet without seeing the target below."

See also the 'Battle For Pampus' sitrep


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OPS Veluwe

Sunday May 22nd 2016

TL;DR: 497 fields over the Veluwe totalling 85 million MU, yielding 11 black illuminator badges

Timelapse
Ingress Report!

"Sergeant, there's sand in my food..."
"Stop whining, soldier, you're here to defend your country!"
"Yes, but not to eat it!!"

We decided to make fields. Lots of them. A good row of 15 portals was found in Dieren which together with Maarn and Hattem formed a nice right-angled triangle over the Veluwe area. This is an area well known for its forests, sand and rabbits. After drawing out the details and rallying the first agents the task of key farming commenced. We planned to make 660 fields and needed nearly 800 keys. In the end over 900 were farmed. During key farming agent @Beechnut encountered a family of wild boar in the forest.

The fielding was estimated to take quite some time so we decided to start clearing late at night in the hope we would not be interrupted. During clearing agents @Ghosthaven and @WolfNyx witnessed a fire in a hedge in Hattem which was put out by the local fire brigade (see photos). Agent @Skiplok walked 45 minutes, and back, all alone in the dark to clear a single portal in an area unreachable by car. Our hero!.

It turned out ENL was also doing some fielding of their own so we decided to let them finish whilst starting our own clearing as quietly as we could (which of course is impossible). ENL noticed our efforts and put up some good opposition by driving around and shooting block links. After ENL went to bed and all block links were removed, fielding finally started around 4:30, 90 minutes later than planned. The layers turned out to be around 170k each. Nearly 4 hours and several rounds of fielding later we had made 497 fields totalling 85.189.315 MU. Eleven of our agents achieved a black illuminator badge.

The following agents partook in this operation: Almighty Steve, Bacos, Beechnut, Boedha84, Buizerd, cappieb, CradleOfSmurf, Dennis33NL, Diabolin, Eagle1982, Fortifer, Ghosthaven, gstailcat, Hessley, Hiawatta, ikketoch, Imda, Lam3Ass, MadameMedusa, MisterIT, MrDisken, mustangfreak, PieterBass, ppw1973, PrincessLaurie, Ranney, RubyRedhead, SamtheChemist, Skiplok, Snowman174, taikwondosmurf, tempelier, TheRealShadow, Tuimel, Viooltje, WolfNyx, Yoshi4184, Zoefzoef.

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OPS Amsterdam7

Saturday April 9th & Sunday April 10th 2016
12 fields over Amsterdam totaling 3.9M MU

"There's nothing scarier than a clown after midnight" - Alfred J. Hitchcock

Prelude
This operation was conceived long ago, in an innocent time. In a time before finding out that using unreachable portals for fielding is not necessarily a good idea. In a time when ENL would not rush out of their homes and into their cars as soon as clearing began. Alas, this time has passed and the world has become a desolate and harsh place... (a tumble weed rolls by in the background)

The Field
Using the portals of Oud Valkeveen we found a nice corridor into Amsterdam over the 'IJ'. The southern anchor along the A4 seemed relatively secure and completed the field with easy corriders along Schiphol and under Amstelveen. There were no big rows of portals to use on any of the anchors so the idea was to settle for 49 intermediate and 7 final layers. With an estimated 300k per layer that would mean about 15M MU to be captured. Yummy!

The stage was set for a relatively simple fielding operation over....Amsterdam? Again?! Yes! Again!!

D-Day
After the usual preparations D-Day came and agents were anxiously anticipating the starting time when suddenly we noticed our Oud Valkeveen portals were no longer the correct (blue) colour. ENL @SirHomie was apparently enjoying a nice day at the theme park and capping our anchors. Stress! Oud Valkeveen closes at 17h. Luckily for us RES @Jingim was also enjoying a nice day at the theme park and after talking to us, decided to enjoy it right up to closing time, capping back our anchors and saving the day. Thanks man!

Clowns in the woods
To reach some of the portals in Oud Valkeveen RES agents @Buizerd and @Galanas had to work their way through the woods around the back of the park. To ward of ticks the agents applied some Advantix droplets in their neck areas. Better safe than sorry guys. The 'Bon Bear' portal could be seen through the gate in all its creepyness. Probably clowns too (did I tell you my clown joke yet?). 

Anyway.

Holding pattern
Clearing commenced and things started to get hairy. What should have been 45 minutes of clearing stretched on to 60 then 90 then 120 minutes as more and more ENL agents started shooting dedicated block links. Honorable mention must go to ENL @Barreman who kept driving around in a circular holding pattern shooting block links to the island of Pampus whilst RES @Christarius was in hot pursuit cleaning them up. The ENL agents we noticed blocking us were: Barreman, Bowlingbal, Dikkedeur, Fur, Papasam, PersVC, Siemp, SirHomie, Socrates, Synerg1sm, Tjaap, Nibbix, Zaansgroen. Good job guys.

Armageddon
So in the face of all this opposition we decided to abandon our field for the night, but not before agreeing to set our alarm clocks early the next morning and finish what we'd started. Most agents were up and about by 7:45 AM to clear the remaining blockers of last night's armageddon. Again some ENL activity started stirring but too late this time, at 9:27 we managed to make our first field and we commenced with our link plan.

Rise and shine
However on the northern anchor ENL @Siemp had also gotten out of bed and joined our agents on the anchors. Our trusted chillipepper RES @Euxi attempted to divert him with a mexican head lock but to no avail. The anchor went down and ENL @Barreman who apparently also has the nasty habit of getting out of bed early shot a new block link to Pampus (damn you, Pampus!).

Lies, damn lies and...
We managed to make 12 fields with a total of 3908919 MU captured, one black illuminator badge and one gold liberator badge.

Agents
Thanks to the following agents for making this daunting but rewarding field: 88CCFF, BlueFluas, BoyAFCA, Buizerd, Cristarius, DaiyaDawn, Damoni, DoctorFoxy, ElAwrence, Euxi, Fortifer, Galanas, Iffel, Jingim, Oilpink, SAHillie, Shad0wdancer, Shinsetsu, Zorglubxx.

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