Theorycraft an epic new tactical manoeuvre or combat strategy!

Posted by Alex Sinclair in EVE Online

Whether it involves two-dozen titans and Doomsdays that you don't have at your disposal or it's just too darn risky, we want to know about a never-before-tried tactical manoeuvre that you just can't get out of your head.

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Be sure to give your manoeuvre a name. If you're lacking inspiration, here's a top tip: choose a classical author and add a wrestling move; it always sounds legit. For example: the Dostoevsky Chokehold or the Brontë Powerbomb.

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Created at 3:33pm, 14th March, 2025. Page last updated at 2:00am, 11th June, 2025.
Deadline at 11:00pm, 11th June, 2025.

Submissions (6)

Limal5/26/2025

Won$10

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With the release of the Sarathiel – Angel Cartel Dreadnought coming tomorrow, I thought… hey, why not build something completely over-the-top around it?

Introducing: The Diamond Trap

It starts like your average dread brawl. Two fleets, siege, arrow formations. You load Barrage and start trading blows at range, thanks to Sarathiel’s amazing falloff bonuses. Nothing unusual, just big ships going pew-pew.

But here’s where it flips.

A second block of Sarathiels appears on the opposite side of the battlefield, also in siege. Both formations, now opposite angles of a rhombus — are positioned like jaws.

And then... BOOM.

Both fleets micro jump inward at the same time, switching to Hail mid-jump. Suddenly, the enemy is encircled in a perfect diamond formation, surrounded by an angry swarm 800mm quad repeating in close range with max DPS and overlapping coverage.

The ring closes. Focus fire begins. And then… EXPLOSIONS. Lots of them.

On both sides, probably. Because I’m not a great tactician - but hey, explosions are content. 😈

Diamond Trap Doctrine. Coming soon to a killboard near you.

SLOWCommunity6/11/2025

Won$10

Inspired by the Adama Manuever from Battlestar Galactica, a friend and I theorycrafted a strategy that brought the awesome (yet still underpowered) abilities of a combat carrier to a battle to support a fleet with its DPS and support fighters.

Normally conduiting carriers flee after deploying its subcapital fleet - not in the Battlestar Strategy! High risk, high reward.

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SomeKiwi6/5/2025

Won$10

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I've been named "The asshole who fucks with them in NPC Delve" by Pandemic Horde because of the strategy I developed: Tandem Waterboarding. Your FCs need a couple more minutes to get moving? I got you covered

Caution:Spoilers inside

First, you need two dictor pilots, preferably in hyperspatialed dictors. Pilot A places a stop bubble 100km off the gate, burns towards where the enemies are coming from and drops another bubble. Pilot B stays on the gate at 0km ready to drop another bubble, then jumps through and gets into a stop bubble position on the next gate. In this time, pilot A has jumped through, dropped a bubble on the In-Gate at 0km, burns toward the next gate, drops another bubble and warps to the next gate, now taking Pilot Bs job. Rinse and repeat

FirestormGamingTeam3/23/2025

This is our submission

Deacons are normally RR which is remote Repair ships and we always wanted to try this but, essentially this would only work with three pilots, the idea is you warp on ships your size and make them think "oh the logi got here first or it's bait" and then suddenly, our dual rep DPS setups start tearing them a new one whilst being able to repair each other.

Never seen this done before but we are looking at putting a video together on this in the near future.

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Luka Zaharin3/19/2025

Won$10

Spearfishing but with capitals! This manoeuvre would actually allow a relatively small but well organised group, to split a BS bashing fleet from their single capital logi in order to take it down quickly before the own squishy dps ships die.

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Set up a cloaky cyno 250km (Capital Booshrange) from the enemy Apostle
Warp two Carriers 250km from the Apostle, but on the opposite side (300km from cyno)
Align to cyno and activate both MJDs with one second apart
Grab the Apostle and drag it to the decloaking cyno
Drop dps on them
Enjoy the kill!

I never tried this, but as it was supposed to be a new strategy, I guess that's fine. I would actually be curious to see if it would work in ~~the real world~~ , of course I mean, ingame ;-)