Dread Assault

Main article: Homefront operation

Homefront operations are Cosmic Anomalies in highsec that require a group of pilots covering specific roles from standard roles like DPS and logi to less common roles in fleets such as hacking and hauling. Each having its own scenario and requiring its own group composition and strategy. The acceleration gate on the entrance allows only certain types of ships depending on particular type.

Mission details

Dread Assault: Cartel Racket

An empire dreadnought has been dispatched to resolve the conflict in this sector. Your fleet’s mission is to ensure its success by supplying enough capacitor power for the dreadnought to activate its superweapon and obliterate the enemy structure.

Enemy ships will apply energy neutralizers to the dreadnought, so it's recommended to bring DPS ships and T1 Logistic cruisers with 3-4 remote cap transfers and maintain cap chain with one of them.

Be advised that enemy ships will aggressively target and destroy any drones deployed during the engagement, making drone usage a risky choice for capsuleers who rely heavily on them for damage or utility.

Fleet size & composition

• Optimal fleet size: 5 ships
• Fleet composition: T1 Logistic Cruisers (Logi), Destroyers (DPS)

Type of ships allowed

This homefront operation takes place in a deadspace pocket with an acceleration gate that has ship restrictions.

• Tech 1 frigates, navy and pirate frigates
• Tech 1 destroyers, navy and pirate destroyers
• Tech 1 cruisers
• Tech 1 haulers, including Squall
• Ventures

Mission parameters

• Time-limit: 20 minutes
• Dreadnought Capacitor Requirements (30,000)
• Enemy Structure Health
• Siege Mode Timer: 90 seconds

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  Dread Assault: Cartel Racket Mission Parameters

Dread Assault in different empires

There are regional differences in the site’s description, hostile damage types, EWAR and friendlies.

Region	Site	Hostile Damage Types	EWAR	Friendlies
Gallente	Dread Assault: Primacy Base	Ex EM	Neuts /ECM	Peacekeeper Hubris
Caldari	Dread Assault: Occupied Industry	Ex EM	Neuts /ECM	Arbiter Karura
Minmatar	Dread Assault: Cartel Racket	Ex Kin	Paints /ECM	Verdarni Valravn
Amarr	Dread Assault: Blood Raider Temple	EM Th	Neuts Weapon disruption ECM	Legatus Bane

Hostiles

A fleet consisting of frigates, destroyers, cruisers, and battlecruisers will be present upon arrival. They will concentrate their fire on one capsuleer ship at a time, beginning with the first vessel to enter the site, and may periodically switch targets as a group. An exception applies to hostiles with the Corruptor, Activist, Errant, or Blood prefixes: these will immediately target any drones that are deployed, but will revert to attacking the currently focused capsuleer ship if no drones are present.

Dread Assault: Cartel Racket				Dread Assault: Occupied Industry
Prefix	Info	Weakness		Prefix	Info	Weakness
Corruptor	Drone aggro	EM		Negotiator	Neuts	Th
Deceiver	ECM			Instigator	DPS
Focused Leeching	Neut Dreadnought			Focused Negotiator	Neut Dreadnought
Malignant	Logi			Defiant	DPS
Persecutor	Paints			Activist	Drone aggro
Slayer	DPS			Bolstering	Logi
Sundering	DPS			Boycotter	ECM
Dread Assault: Primacy Base				Dread Assault: Blood Raider Temple
Prefix	Info	Weakness		Prefix	Info	Weakness
Abacinating	ECM	Th		Hyphema	ECM	Ex
Errant	Drone aggro			Damning	Weapon disruption
Focused Liberator	Neut Dreadnought			Blood	Drone aggro
Supreme Talos	DPS			Focused Sanguinary	Neut Dreadnought
Valiant Thorax	DPS			Scarlet	DPS
Liberator	Neuts			Venerated	DPS
Bastion	Logi			Sanguinary	Neuts
				Shepherd	Logi

Finding sites

Homefront operations are Cosmic Anomalies located in empire owned High Security systems, mostly focused around trade hubs or career agent systems.

• Opportunities window > Homefront Operations tab: will render a list of the available homefronts within a limited range.
• Agency window > Homefront Operations tab: will give you a more detailed filtering ability that allows you to search any region.
• Probe Scanner > Displays all available anomalies in the system, including their distance in AU, with options to warp or align to them.

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  Opportunities > Homefront Operations
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  Agency > Homefront Operations
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  Probe Scanner > Homefront Anomalies

Rewards

Rewards for Dread Assault sites consists of raw ISK payout upon completion, following the standard 5 man fleet payout graph resulting in a 15,486,410 ISK payout per pilot not counting bounties for killing NPC's.

Gallery

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  Dread Assault: Cartel Racket Site Overview
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  Verdarni Valravn Dreadnought
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  Augoror, Kikimora, Dreadnought
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  The Legatus Bane