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Our suggested fits are designed with rigs that are compatible with the suggested fits of public armor headquarters communities. This allows our members to join in with content that the Univeristy cannot provide without having to buy a separate ship or spend excess ISK on rerigging their ships.

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* Shield tanking modules are less skill dependent compared to armor, as passive armor modules require the armor compensation skills. However, there is no multispectrum passive shield amplifier, so shield tanking relies on capacitor, and can be turned off if a ship is sufficiently neuted. This aspect is most prevalent in Assault and Headquarters sites, where neut pressure is much more of a concern owing to the Otouni Mesen, which carries a capital-sized neutralizer, as well as the requirement of those sites to equip propulsion modules which are exceedingly capacitor hungry on their own.

* Remote shield boosters apply their repairs at the start of a cycle, which can allow logistics to be applied sooner in the case of sudden aggro switches, however amour repairs tend to cycle faster, and have some buffer in their shields, meaning this benefit is somewhat negated.

* Shield tanking modules occupy the midslots of a ship, which could otherwise be used by modules such as tracking computers and sensor boosters (which are more effective and flexible as compared to their lowslot counterparts), as well as other utility modules such as stasis webifiers and target painters. Armor tanking modules instead take up lowslots.

Utility highs are selected based on individual ship needs. It is common for ships to include an '''Auto Targeting System''' in a utility highslot to give access to more locked targets, potentially allowing a ship to lock all of the Sansha in a wave up at the same time, removing the need to continually lock rats as the wave progresses. Outside of this, it is good practice to include '''Remote Armor Repairers''' for use in emergencies where the logistics pilot in a fleet may have disconnected. Outside of Vanguards, ''Remote Capacitor Transmitters'' can be useful, as these can help ships being targetted by Sansha such as the Deltole Tegmentum or Otouni Mesen, which provide significant capacitor neutralization pressure.

Going for damage means that you're limited somewhat due to the high calibration cost of rigs such as Burst Aerators. Alternatively, Hyperspatial Velocity Optimization rigs offer the benefit of allowing your ship to warp faster, which is particularly advantageous in a situation where every fleet member is capable of the same, minimising the time the fleet spends in warp thus improving fleet efficiency.

There are a few easy ways to determine whether a tank is OK or not. You can judge your tank by many means, but for Incursions the best way to measure your tank is to look at '''effective armor hit points''' (EAHP), as opposed to '''damage per second repaired''' (DPS-tank) or the generic '''effective hit points''' (EHP). This is because a lot of ships have significant shield and hull hit points, so the effective hit points value can be quite misleading on a battleship with a damage control for example, as the EHP-value skyrockets compared to a ship without a damage control fitted, but very little of it applies to the actual EAHP.

While the above mentioned effective armor hit points is a good measure, it is not always practical to use on the fly. For one it doesn't really tell you if the ship has any glaring resist holes, so for practical reasons we tend to speak in more general terms -- Armor hit points and resists. It's much easier to just ask the pilot ''"How many raw armor hit points do you have?"'' and ''"What are your resists?"''. It's very easy for people to check this ingame and it tells us enough to judge whether or not the fit is OK.

{{note box|Values listed here are approximate based on our tank guidelines, and inferred from the basic fits of armor headquarters groups. Though Warp To Me does publish their tank requirements (67% omni shield resists and 12,000 raw shield HP}, others do not.}}

In vanguards it is somewhat common for FCs to allow (sometimes significantly) lower resists in fleets with sufficient DPS. This is a concept known as ''DPS tanking''. Though it can be precarious and depend on all members of the fleet flying their ships effectively, having 4 or 5 Marauders in a fleet means that a significant portion of the Sanshas DPS never applies because the ships die before the get into range to apply significantly. With that said, remember that resists are far more important than raw armor hit points, as higher resists has the secondary benefit of increasing the efficiency of remote repairs. Below is a graph illustrating how damage changes with scaling resists.

This section serves as a guide on how to apply the fitting principles in a way that could generate a suitable fit for any suitable hull. In this example, we will work towards a fit for a pilot who has been flying a pulse Praxis, and wants to Begin flying a Nightmare. They have the skills to fit T2 guns, but don't have a whole lot of isk to be spending on excessive expensive modules.

We begin with the rigs, as we would like for our fit to be useful outside of Vanguards. The rigs used by Contingency Incursions for their "Advanced" Nightmare fit (and also by The Ditanian Fleet, but strangely only in their "Antigank" fit) are a T1 Explosive and Kinetic Armor Reinforcer, and a T2 Hyperspatial Velocity Optimizer.

 

Now we have a fit which, while not particularly useful or effective, meets all of the requirements to join a fleet. Now we have some choices to make regarding the remaining slots. The easiest of these choices is what to do with the low slots. These slots are the only ones which allow us to directly increase the raw DPS that the ship does, and it would be advisable to make use of these slots in that way. As this is a ship using energy weapons, we require heat sinks. Here, we choose to splash some isk to get faction heat sinks, as they provide a nice bump in DPS but are generally cheaper than faction midslots.

The Nightmare is designed to be a shield-tanked ship, so benefits from an abundance of midslots, especially now that we are not using those slots for tank modules. As such, we are spoiled for choice, and we choose to be greedy. The first thing we should choose to include is a set of tracking computers. These massively increase our applied DPS by causing us to miss our shots less often, and allowing us to use higher damage charges at longer range. Being scripted also makes them a good choice, especially compared to their lowslot counterparts.

Another good option are sensor boosters. These will always be used in combination with scan resolution scripts, as in Vanguards we do not require the extra locking range, and the ECCM is nice but not vital. By being able to lock targets faster, we can kill them faster, which makes the whole fleet safer and more efficient. As we have 7 midslots available (and we enjoy symmetry), we will choose 3 of each of sensor boosters and tracking computers. This leaves one slot remaining. Good options might be a target painter (to amplify the whole fleets application), a capacitor battery or recharger (if capacitor life is lower than 10 minutes or so this could be a good option). However, we will choose to include a stasis webifier. This is the safest option - if a fleet is running with only one Vindicator pilot and nobody else has webs on their ship, the fleet will struggle massively to kill frigates that get into orbit range, so having spare webs is a vital asset.