Dread Assault

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.

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.

Homefront ship restrictions example

Mission parameters

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

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	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. It appears that they never switch aggro to another drone after they pick one.

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.

Opportunities > Homefront Operations
Agency > Homefront Operations
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

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