Wormholes

The Ships:
I have listed the ships you need above. Here are the specifics on how to use each one.

The First Carrier:
The first carrier's role is to keep the Loki, and itself, alive and to keep the Loki capped up.
In addition, it can be used to kill sleeper cruisers with its drones.

This carrier needs to be an Archon. Sorry, but if you're a carrier pilot in wormhole space and don't fly an Archon, go train it right now.
You should not need to triage the first carrier but if the sleepers primary it for longer than usual you will need to, so make sure it is triage capable and has stront.

The Archon needs to have 2 local reps, 2 remote reps and 2 cap transfers.
It needs 1 EANM, T2 CCC rigs and cap mods everywhere else. (Faction CPRs.)
Do NOT fit more tank than this or you will cap out and get everyone killed.

As first carrier, you will need to run 1 remote rep and 2 cap transfers on the Loki. Stagger your cap transfers to keep its cap up easier.
If the Loki takes heavy agro for a long time you will need to cycle the second rep on it too.
You should also keep 1 local rep running at all times, this can save you in case of a disconnect.

Anomaly Notes:
You will never need more than 1 rep on the Loki in a Wolf Rayet.


The Loki:
The role of the Loki is to web and paint sleeper battleships so that the dreads can hit them.
Generally the Loki will also be in squad command position so that it can tag the targets but this can also be done by the first carrier.
Orbit the carrier at 500m to help sig tank.

The Loki needs to have 3 faction webs, Fed Navy recommended, and 2 target painters.
It should be putting 2 webs and both painters on the primary target and 1 web on the secondary target.

While many people don't, you should fit guns on your Loki and use it to kill off sleeper frigs. 5 dual 180s fit with 3% PG implant and do the job just fine.

Anomaly Notes:
You will need to fit 2 T2 targeting range rigs in a Magnetar to be able to lock out far enough.


The First Dread:
This should be your highest skilled pilot. The speed at which this dread can kill the sleeper battleships will determine the safety and efficiency of your site running.

If possible, make the first dread a Moros. In PVE, it actually does only slightly more DPS at the same range as a Revelation due to using T1 ammo, which should be uranium (aim for ~35km optimal), but it has much better tracking which means it applies DPS better than a Rev.
Rev should always use faction ammo since it lasts for ages and is dirt cheap.

The basic fitting rule for PVE dreads are:
T2 siege
meta guns (optional but highly recommended)
3 damage mods
1 meta local rep
2 faction, or better, EANMs
1 sensor booster
T2 capacitor rigs (CCCs and mem cells both work)
Tracking mods everywhere else, pimp to taste

Unlike the Archon, the dreads cannot tank the sleepers indefinitely and as such, you will likely need to refit mods off the carrier if you are taking heavy agro, which you generally will.
To this end, all dreads must have spare tank (DC, EANMs and active hardeners) and cap mods in their cargo. Even things like reinforced bulk heads are good to have if you really get into trouble.

Refitting on the fly and knowing when to refit is something that you will need to gain experience with to get the hang of.
Until you do, refit to more tank early. Drop a TE for a DC as soon as you start taking agro and drop another TE/damage mod for a 3rd EANM if they stay on you.
At the ~40% cap mark, start fitting cap rechargers and CPRs to stay above 33%.
If your dread is in trouble, don't be ashamed to drop siege and tell the Archon to triage to rep and cap you up.

Once you gain enough experience running first dread, you will be able to start swapping out mods later, or even not at all.

As a note on the rigs you choose, CCCs will help you recover cap faster but mem cells give you a much bigger buffer, meaning you don't run low for longer.
It's really up to personal preference (I use mem cells) and ultimately, most people run CCCs because they’re half the price.

Anomaly Notes:
Being in a Wolf Rayet is roughly the equivalent of having an extra A-Type EANM fit. As such, you will rarely need to refit, if ever.
In a Magnetar, you really want the first dread to be a Moros since the tracking on the Revelation really suffers (it does still work fine if you don't have any alternative though).


The Second Dread:
Your second dread works much the same as the first dread except there is a lot less pressure on it.
The sleepers will rarely primary it heavily and with 2 dreads on field the battleships die much faster.
As such, this pilot can be less skilled. If you do not have 2 skilled dread pilots available, you can just warp the second dread in and out to trigger the wave.

Same piloting principles apply for this dread as the first.


The Second Carrier:
This carrier is only really there to trigger the second carrier escalation wave. It should just warp in and straight out.
If you need to, use it to kill any remaining sleeper cruisers/frigs with drones.

Anomaly Notes:
You can fit smartbombs and kill frigs with the second carrier in a Red Giant if you don’t have guns on your Loki. Warning: Doing so agros your entire fleet.

Recommended Fits:









Note that the dread fits are not static, you will likely need to swap out for more tank/cap regen as you start taking heavy damage and neuts so make sure you have spare mods in cargo.
Mem cells or CCCs are more or less up to personal preference on the dreads. I use mem cells on my rev as it has more base cap and I find I almost never need to swap out for more regen with them as the cap buffer is huge.
Most people use CCCs since they are much cheaper and work fine too.

Well, lets just say that a certain set of people i know lost 3 webbing lokis and nearly 2 caps and needed to be bailed out by 8 guardians this week because the first carrier had more tank and capped out...
Obviously there are things you can change up and some that are up to preference/experience.

Pulsar is perfectly possible with this method you just need to change the ships/fits up a bit i.e. you can't use an archon - shield moros with the right fit works, chimera and loki - you definitely need a full set of siege links and skirmish links tho.

i.e. loki something like this: (can be done cheaper but I like to take my fits from the top)

[Loki, Webber 2]
Damage Control II
Republic Fleet Gyrostabilizer
Republic Fleet Gyrostabilizer
Tracking Enhancer II
Tracking Enhancer II

Republic Fleet Large Shield Extender
Dread Guristas Adaptive Invulnerability Field
Pith B-Type Kinetic Deflection Field
Federation Navy Stasis Webifier
Federation Navy Stasis Webifier

220mm Vulcan AutoCannon II, Barrage M
220mm Vulcan AutoCannon II, Barrage M
220mm Vulcan AutoCannon II, Barrage M
220mm Vulcan AutoCannon II, Barrage M
220mm Vulcan AutoCannon II, Barrage M
Large S95a Partial Shield Transporter

Medium Anti-Thermal Screen Reinforcer II
Medium Anti-Explosive Screen Reinforcer II
Medium Core Defense Field Extender II

Loki Defensive - Adaptive Shielding
Loki Electronics - Immobility Drivers
Loki Engineering - Capacitor Regeneration Matrix
Loki Offensive - Projectile Scoping Array
Loki Propulsion - Intercalated Nanofibers


Hobgoblin II x5
Hobgoblin II x5

Its cap stable in the pulsar - and depending on what the guardians are or aren't shooting at you may not even have to triage the carrier - the loki can be kept alive with its high resists + siege links by a non triage carrier and the carrier only needs to triage if it takes sustained damage - its local tank + bonused RR from the loki should keep it comfortable aslong as the dread is killing stuff nicely (In a C5/6 pulsar with a proper fit and siege links a chimera has an absolute ton of EHP).

The dread is the main concern as if theres any delay in it applying damage to the guardians there is a real possibility of it getting capped out and killed.

EDIT: You can drop a bit of tank on the loki, triage the carrier always and stick another web/TP or 2 on there but from my experience aslong as you properly fit the dread and the dread pilot has good skills it only decreases the time on site by a couple of minutes tops if that. If your dread pilot doesn't have great skills then you'd probably need 2 lokis really one TPing and one webbing... don't even think about using a huginn let alone a rapier for this in a pulasr it will get nuked.


EDIT2: Couple of notes on the loki in a pulsar don't forget it gets its sig bloomed up a lot going both shield tanked and having the pulsar sig bloom so it will take a lot more damage from the escalation BS than an armor tanked one would - while you can probably get away with dropping the LSE if the carrier triages, the less you have to triage the carrier the easier it is for the carrier pilot to manage their cap. The other issue is that even with the cap regen sub-system its cap will frequently get nuked by the neuting and the capital energy xfer is a bit wasted as your injecting more cap in than the loki can take and getting neuted out more frequently than a capital RR module is useful for replenishing - if you have the extra pilots then running 2 lokis and putting cap xfers on instead of shield RR and chaining cap between each other can help with this a lot - also means you have plenty of webbing and TPing possibilities.

-Archon with 2 EANMs and proper links can tank a site on 1 repper.
-Add 1 more dread to the mix, warp all three to the archon/loki once they have landed, PEWPEW. <- Not recommended until you're comfortable with how to run sites.
-Get your archon pilot to get proper implants.

F**king carebears.

yes, cos you get the isk for your T3s out of thin air.
spare me.

Swap noctis for Rorquall fitted for salvage and you can salvage on the go

Yes, great read.

c5 / c6 sites are designed to be run by multiple people - but I would imagine that a talented multi-boxer could run them "solo".

Personally, I wouldn't want to be on the receiving end of a DC under those conditions!

What do you think are the chances of getting totally owned and dying if somebody tunnels into my C5 at the exact moment I hit siege on my dread are?. Assuming that I can't extract myself from the site after the first siege cycle ends and I have to kill all/most of the sleepless guardians and then warp out.

I mean, they have only 10 minutes to figure out what's going on my WH, form up some sort of gang (more than just a cov ops, because if they land an arazu or proteus or something in my site alone, I'm just going to web it and start blapping it with the dread, and hope that even if I can't hit initially, the sleepers will web it and neut it for me as well), and then manage to land in my site before I warp off.

And, assuming that I do manage to get tackled in a site, is it even feasible to kill a gang by triaging the archon and just fighting them using the dread and loki to take down large targets and then try to go for cruise sized targets? I mean, i figure at least if they warp in a bhaalgorn, I'll be able to kill that, I suppose I'm asking more about the viability of killing T3's--would they be similar in difficulty to killing sleeper cruisers? (i.e. you just need to wait till the webs have slowed them down enough?).

EDIT: Oh yea, what do you do when running a quarantine area? Do you just not shoot any of the initial spawn and just fit like 50 million warp core stabs to the dread and loki and hope they don't point the carrier at the end? Supposedly the site triggers are random, which is why I ask. In my experience, I've been able to kill all the stuff that points you without the site ever spawning a new wave, (which is around 10+ seperate sites, since I assume the trigger is the same in an individual site when doing capital escalation farming).