EVE Echoes: How to Run a Capital Hunting Filament Fleet

To execute a capital hunt using filaments in EVE Echoes, activate a filament to bypass regional gate choke points, instantly pin an isolated carrier or dreadnought using heavy interdiction, orbit outside capital energy neutralizer range, and destroy the target before local defense forces can respond.

Fleet Doctrine and Ship Roles

Filament fleet sizes are strictly limited, requiring each ship to deliver tackle, damage projection, or electronic warfare without redundant hulls.

Ship Assignments

• Fiend (Tackle & Control): Capital hulls possess high base warp core stability that easily shrugs off standard cruiser disruptors. The Fiend deploys interdiction bubbles and heavy scramblers to prevent the target from warping or cycling a micro jump drive. The tackle pilot must keep propulsion modules active to maintain a high angular velocity, which reduces tracking damage from carrier fighter cannons.
• Raven Navy Issue (Primary Strike): Delivers kinetic and thermal missile damage against capital armor and shield layers. Orbiting between 30 and 45 kilometers keeps the battleship out of capital-scale energy neutralizer range while preserving missile application.
• Azazel (Support & Neutralization): Applies stasis webifiers and neutralizers to suppress enemy fighters, defensive drones, and support escorts, preventing them from peeling the tackle ship off the grid.

Target Scouting and Drop Execution

Upon activating a filament into a target nullsec constellation, move quickly before local intelligence alerts ratters.

1. Scan Local Chat and Anomalies: Check the local pilot roster for capital pilots piloting carriers, dreadnoughts, or capital industrial ships. Identify active cosmic anomalies and pinpoint the target's grid within seconds.
2. Land Initial Tackle: The Fiend warps in first directly at zero on the capital ship. The pilot must immediately activate interdiction bubbles and focused warp scramblers before the ratter can align and warp to a citadel.
3. Warp Heavy Firepower at Range: The Raven Navy Issue and Azazel warp to the Fiend, establishing their pre-assigned 30–45 km orbits rather than landing at zero. Landing on top of a combat dreadnought exposes battleships to heavy high-angle batteries and capacitor drain.
4. Defang and Focus Fire: The Azazel webs and neutralizes hostile fighter squadrons to protect the Fiend. The Raven Navy Issue paints the capital to increase its signature radius, maximizing torpedo damage application. Overheat missile launchers during vulnerable resistance cycles or after emergency defensive modules expire.

Extraction and Disengagement

Engaging a capital ship immediately prompts hostile alliance defense fleets to scramble reinforcements. Once the capital hull is destroyed, the hunting gang must extract cleanly:

1. Loot the Wreck Swiftly: Designate a single fast hull to scoop high-value modules and salvage from the capital wreck. The rest of the fleet should immediately align to safe coordinates.
2. Drop Bubbles: The interdiction pilot must shut down all active disruption bubbles the moment the target is confirmed destroyed so friendly ships can warp freely.
3. Clear Combat Timers: Warp the entire fleet to deep celestial safe spots. Cloak up or hold position until weapon aggression timers expire.
4. Extract: Once combat timers clear, activate an extraction filament to jump into a new constellation, or log off safely if hostile forces camp local stargates.