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Revision as of 18:34, 14 September 2025 by Boniface Vachon (talk | contribs) (Updated hostile aggro info)
Main article: Homefront operation

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.

Dread Assault: Cartel Racket

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

  Note: You can view in-game ship restrictions for each Homefront Operation by opening the Opportunities window (ALT+J) and double-clicking on a mission.

Mission parameters

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

Dread Assault in different empires

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

Region Site Damage type EWAR Weakness Enemy Faction
  Amarr Dread Assault:

Blood Raider Temple

  EM  Th   Neuts /    Weapon disruption /  ECM   Ex Blood Raiders
  Caldari Dread Assault:

Occupied Industry

  Ex  EM   Neuts / ECM   Th United Champions of Freedom
 Gallente Dread Assault:

Primacy Base

  Ex  EM   Neuts / ECM   Th Gallentia Primacy
 Minmatar Dread Assault:

Cartel Racket

  Ex  Kin   Paints / ECM   EM Angel Cartel

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.

Hostile EWAR ships (such as ECM, see the table below) may target different ships than the rest of the room, and each may pick different targets resulting in (for example) multiple player ships getting jammed at the same time.

Hostile drone aggro ships (see the table below) will target any drones that are deployed, but will revert to attacking the currently focused capsuleer ship if no drones are present.

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

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.

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.

 
Homefront Operation: 5 pilot mission ISK payout

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