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Ship Roles
Tacklers
The purpose of a tackler is to keep the enemy ships from warping away/moving around. This is accomplished by the use of Warp Scramblers/Disruptors and Stasis Webifiers. In some situations Warp Disruption Bubbles can be used, and even Interdictor Bubbles.
Direct Damage
The purpose of direct damage ships is to destroy the enemy ships as fast as possible. Most of the time this means Battleships, Battlecruisers or HACs. There are also a couple philosophies ships in this role can have:
Support
Support ships concentrate mostly on suppressing enemy fleet capabilities with Electronic Warfare, and sometimes enhancing friendly ships. Support are mostly composed of Combat Recon Cruisers, Force Recon Cruiser and some frigates, making them great counters for other support fleets and fighters.
Reconnaissance
Reconnaissance] scout out ahead of the fleet to find enemies or to avoid them. While any ship can fit a Cloaking Device, there are only four ship types that are specifically tooled for covert cloaking and can therefore fit the vastly improved Covert Ops Cloaking Device II: [[eve:ships:frigates:covert_ops|Covert Ops, Stealth Bombers, Force Recons, and Blockade Runners.
Fleet Boosting
Ships that fit modules that give a bonus to the entire fleet are Command Ships.
Anti-Support
Large fleets will often have a dedicated section that protects the large fleet from interference. This is called the anti-support fleet.
AFK Cloakers
Can be quite disruptive in red ratting systems.