Nearly one million!

It's clearly better to strike the iron while it's hot, so we proceeded right away to do "our preciousss one" again with a variation: we pushed the top corner farther North, thus expecting a remarkable increase in the M.U. count.

Checkpoint: 01:00 AM
Locations: Calafuria tower, Navacchio, Valle Benedetta, Gabbro, Castelnuovo della Misericordia, Rosignano Marittimo
Top side: ~27 Km (~17 mi)
Left side: ~14 Km (~9 mi)
Right side: ~31 Km (~19 mi)
Layers: 15
Total kMU: 800+
Other agents: @ToscJones (at Calafuria tower), @jakolo (in Navacchio), @Gasleo (cleaner in Montacchiello and Vicarello), @MATRIXIO76 (operator)

Excellent job! Great collaboration and syncronization! Fields were up just in time for 01:00 AM and also lasted enough to include the checkpoint of 06:00 AM!
It also allowed me to take an enormous step in the final rush toward the Black Illuminator and reach the first place at cell level.

Thanks everybody!

Back to fielding!

It's been a long time since the last time I participated in "our preciousss" operation as a fielder.

Checkpoint: 11:00 PM C.E.T.
Locations: Calafuria tower, Valle benedetta, Fauglia, Gabbro, Castelnuovo della Misericordia, Rosignano Marittimo
Top side: ~18 Km (~11 mi)
Left side: ~14 Km (~9 mi)
Right side: ~18 Km (~11 mi)
Layers: 11
Total kMU: ~250
Other agents: @Arjov (operator), @ToscJones (at Calafuria tower), @kauplast (in Fauglia).

[EDIT 2016/03/08 09:03]: fields have been up also for checkpoints of 04:00 AM and 09:00 AM C.E.T.

"Our preciousss..."

We keep on doing "our preciousss" one, and it keeps succeeding!

Again, I was the cleaner of blue blockers.
7 layers, for a total of 490+ kMU: we've got an early upper hand in this cycle!

Embracing Elba

It's been a long time since the last time we fought for a cycle at the very end of the period, and that's how 2016.06 went.

A late-night operation encompassing Elba was completed in time for the checkpoint of 2 AM, securing the victory for us.

6 layers, for a total of 650+ kMU.
My part was destroying blue blockers, and the smell of burned resonator has never been sooo good.
The solid green view in front of my eyes when they closed was priceless:

Little new frogs grow...

Night action in Cecina to help new frogs @Viscido2000, @waltor02 and @hamza482 grow; @Viscido2000 also reached level 6!

Conquering Cecina to welcome a new frog

It's always a pleasure to welcome new Enlightened players. 

This time we're speaking about a frog from Cecina introduced to me by @DeathKillerITA, so, again, we thought we could welcome him by involving him in his first op in Cecina.

Welcome @Viscido2000!

The operation itself was nothing huge, but it was special in that it was actually something planned from scratch by our newcomer and, above all, he and @DeathKillerITA rode their bycicles up and down throughout Cecina at -2°C (28.4 °F) and without gloves!

This is dedication!

My part was some cleaning and creating the outer triangle: I was in my car and willing to drive them around, but at some point we needed to act simultaneously in different locations so they had to take their bikes.

Towns involved: Cecina (southmost area), San Pietro in Palazzi (suburb of Cecina), Marina di Cecina (suburb of Cecina)

Right side: 2.68 Km (1.67 mi)

Left side:  2.9 Km (1.81 mi)

Bottom side: 2.75 Km (1.71 mi)

M.U.: 957 + 1301 + 195 + 149 = 2602

Congratulations @DeathKillerITA and @Viscido2000!

A quick-and-dirty one

I'm on a one-week holiday now so yesterday night, after my friends went home, I still had some time to spend, no hurry to go to bed.

I quickly checked the Intel map and I see I could slap together something; I reviewed the keys I had, went taking those I missed and completed this one little op: I'm getting close to level 15 so even the smallest steps are important!

Towns involved: Rosignano Marittimo, La Mazzanta, Cecina
Top-bottom distance: 9.19 Km (5.71 mi)
M.U.: 10000+

Sunday afternoon, waiting for friends...

While waiting for friends to arrive, there are those who idle on the couch playing Candy Crush and those who drive for kilometres.
I belong to the latter group.

Towns involved: Rosignano Marittimo, Cecina, Casale Marittimo, Bibbona
Top-bottom distance: 18.7 Km (11.23 mi)
M.U.: 7220

Yet another simple destruction night

Although the quintessence of Ingress lies in complex planning, cooperating and socializing, some fast "run-and-gun" destruction is good for relaxing from time to time, especially after an intense day at work.

So, yesterday night I teamed up with @ToscJones to raze to the ground a remarkable blue area in Livorno and stack some nice A.P.

Here's a little excerpt of our passage:

Again, unstoppable

You'd think that, by now, the Resistance should have learned how to block us.
Well... no.

 

Completed right on time for the checkpoint of 9 PM; I'm not bothering you with details and statistics again, after all it's the exact replica of what we did last week.

I'm one big step closer to the Black Illuminator medal, now.

Huge thanks to @ToscJones and @MATRIXIO76 for dealing with respectively the left anchor and the top anchor. :)

Over and over

Do you know those times when there is a song you like so much that you can listen to it over and over without ever getting bored of it?

The same is for us with the "Labronic triangle" op: regardless of the many times we have already done it, we keep on doing it and fruitfully stack a good number of MU for the cycle.

After Summer break naturally slowed everybody's activity down around here, we decided to reopen the Autumn-Winter period with a flying start; also, my Platinum Illuminator medal was idling and itching, so yesterday we decided to proceed with our renowned operation: our guys from Livorno and Pisa paved the way by clearing a number of blocking links (of both colors) and throwing half of the links needed while I, from the bottom anchors, threw the closing links.

• Locations: Vicarello, Calafuria, Rosignano Marittimo
• Checkpoint: 00:00 AM
• Right side: 22.81 Km (14.17 mi)
• Top side: 18.76 Km (11.66 mi)
• Bottom side: 13.34 Km (8.29 mi)
• Layers: 8
• M.U.: ~560,000

   

Never miss the opportunity for a good #IngressActualGameplayFootage shot:

Thanks to my fellows Enlightened agents of AF10-SIERRA-10, it's a honour and a pleasure to work with you!

Way over one million... twice!

The deep & solid green colour is charming;

1,600,000+ MU in a single operation are really charming;

doing it twice (00:00AM and 05:00AM) is even more charming;

winning the cycle with it is rewarding;

seeing smurfs jump like frogs out from pubs to try and prevent us from succeeding... priceless!

  

Locations: Viareggio, Pontedera, Livorno

Top side: 36.46 Km (22.65 mi)
Bottom side: 30.15 Km (18.73mi)
Left side: 32.75 Km (20.75 mi)
Layers: 16

My part this time was negligible: I was just patrolling the area south of the operation scene in case some last-minute cleaning was needed, and I was delighted to follow it all unfolding in front of my eyes!

Then @MATRIXIO76 ​​ asked me for screenshots and a quick report, so here it is. :)

Congratulations, guys! :)

"Back to work" operation

Despite in the afternoon I drove a good number of kilometres up and down for Ingress-related reasons and despite tomorrow I'll go back to work after a one-week holiday, it's now late night and I'm not sleepy.

So, again, what's better than an Ingress op when you can't sleep?

I leveraged some of my work from this afternoon and slapped together a "Back to work" operation:

   

• Towns involved: Rosignano Marittimo, Vada, Guardistallo
• Left side: 9.57 Km (5.95 mi)
• Right side: 16.39 Km (10.19 mi)
• Bottom side: 13.57 Km (8.43 mi)
• M.U.: 11525
• Completed at 00:14 AM

Now, really, I'd better go to bed: the alarm clock is going off in less than 7 hours.
Good night! :)

[EDIT]: at 02:00 PM it's still up!