# Crimson Gauntlet

#### Strategy

Room 1: Kill wave on warp in and head for the gate to your left, unless you have a key to take the short-cut (to Room 2) through the other gate.

Room 2: Kill all rats of spawn 1 and 2 while approaching the next gate. The gate activates after spawn 2 has been eliminated. (Sometimes a 3rd spawn happens?), make sure to be aligned for gate activation before you get tackled by the 3rd spawn.

Room 3: Deploy MTU, kill all rats of spawn 1 and 2, then the battleship NPC arrives. Kill that one and revealed structure for loot. Killing the structure may spawn an escalation for [Crimson Harvest Sancturary](https://wiki.erst.live/books/combat-sites/page/crimson-harvest-sanctuary "Crimson Harvest Sanctuary") (can spawn in HS/LS/NS)  
Sometimes there's a 3rd wave spawning together with the battleship. You may need to kill the neuting and damage cruisers before killing the battleship to not die to the neuting/dmg pressure.

<p class="callout warning">There have been reports of rifts spawning in room 1 &amp; 2, which spawned sleepers. It's reasonable to assume there can be rogue drone- and trig- enemies spawning too.</p>

<p class="callout info">It appears that there's no drone aggro in the site</p>

<table border="1" id="bkmrk-damage-to-tank-damag"><tbody><tr><td>Damage to tank</td><td>[![resist-em.png](https://wiki.erst.live/uploads/images/gallery/2025-09/scaled-1680-/resist-em.png)](https://wiki.erst.live/uploads/images/gallery/2025-09/resist-em.png)[![resist-therm.png](https://wiki.erst.live/uploads/images/gallery/2025-09/scaled-1680-/resist-therm.png)](https://wiki.erst.live/uploads/images/gallery/2025-09/resist-therm.png)[![resist-exp.png](https://wiki.erst.live/uploads/images/gallery/2025-09/scaled-1680-/resist-exp.png)](https://wiki.erst.live/uploads/images/gallery/2025-09/resist-exp.png)</td></tr><tr><td>Damage to deal</td><td>[![dmg-em.png](https://wiki.erst.live/uploads/images/gallery/2025-09/scaled-1680-/dmg-em.png)](https://wiki.erst.live/uploads/images/gallery/2025-09/dmg-em.png)[![dmg-therm.png](https://wiki.erst.live/uploads/images/gallery/2025-09/scaled-1680-/dmg-therm.png)](https://wiki.erst.live/uploads/images/gallery/2025-09/dmg-therm.png)</td></tr><tr><td>Expected EWAR</td><td>Web, point, neut</td></tr></tbody></table>

#### Access restrictions

Up and including marauders

#### Spawn locations

<table border="1" id="bkmrk-space-highsec-%E2%9C%85-lows"><thead><tr><td>Space</td><td>  
</td></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>Highsec</td><td>✅</td></tr><tr><td>Lowsec</td><td>✅</td></tr><tr><td>Nullsec</td><td>  
</td></tr><tr><td>Wormholes</td><td>✅</td></tr><tr><td>Pochven</td><td>  
</td></tr></tbody></table>

#### Loot

[Link to EVE Journal](https://evejournal.com/info/event-site/crimson-gauntlet-2026 "Link to EVE Journal")

#### Fits:

\- [Sleipnir](https://eveworkbench.com/fit/8279e051-a321-4b8d-a3b8-d18149148a8d "Sleipnir fit on EVEWorkbench")