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Effective shield hit points

You can judge your tank by many means, but for Incursions the best way to measure your tank is to look at effective shield hit points (ESHP), 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 armour 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 ESHP.

Below is a rough guide to acceptable values when it comes SEHP, but remember that you need to factor in things like resists vs buffer  as well as speed and signature. So don't casually compare a ship's effective shield hit points against this without taking that into your consideration.

Ship class	Incursion sites	Effective shield hit points
		10k ↓ 20k ↓ 30k ↓ 40k ↓ 50k ↓ 60k ↓ 70k ↓ 80k ↓
Large ship Battleships	Vanguards
	Assaults
	Headquarters
Command Ships	Vanguards
	Assaults
	Headquarters
Strategic cruisers	Vanguards
	Assaults
	Headquarters
Basilisks	Vanguards
	Assaults
	Headquarters
Scimitars	Vanguards
	Assaults
	Headquarters

    Legend:  █ Unsafe (too low)  █ Situational (depends on the pilot/fleet)  █ Safe (solid tank)  █ Overtanked (wasting potential)

Strategic cruiser setups

The resist profiles of strategic cruisers vary quite a lot compared to other ships. As such there are many ways to fit them and their low signature and high agility can allow for many compromises. But in general they should plug certain holes and here's a few examples of one way of attaining the desired resist profiles for these ships.

Slots	Legion	Loki
	Pithum C-Type Adaptive Invulnerability Field Adaptive Invulnerability Field II Freed up mid slot	Pithum C-Type Adaptive Invulnerability Field EM Ward Amplifier II Freed up mid slot
	Freed up low slot	Damage Control II
	Core Defense Field Extender II Anti-EM Screen Reinforcer II Freed up rig slot	Core Defense Field Extender II Anti-Thermal Screen Reinforcer II Freed up rig slot
	Legion Defensive - Augmented Plating	Legion Defensive - X
Resists	-%-%-%-%	-%-%-%-%
	-%-%-%-%	-%-%-%-%
	-%-%-%-%	-%-%-%-%