Battle Replay (BR) - replay an EVE Frontier fight kill by kill
A killboard tells you who died. Battle Replay shows you the fight. Pick a battle in any charted system and EF-Map plays it back on the star map in 30 seconds to 2 minutes. Every pilot sits on a ring around the star with their side, every kill flies from the killer to the victim, and the replay keeps score, calls out kill streaks and structure purges, and ends on a summary card. Battle Replay, or BR for short, is free and runs in your browser.
Battle Replay is a panel in EF-Map's Tools Library (Intel / Activity), live since 19 October 2026. The second button opens a real fight: five hours in BNL|321 on 18 October 2026, where pilots from Algorithmic Warfare, The Agency, The Ancients and Clonebank 86 traded 173 kills, 96 ships and 77 structures.
What is Battle Replay?
Battle Replay (BR) turns EVE Frontier killmails into something you can watch. It reads every kill recorded in a system, finds the fight (a run of kills with no lull longer than 45 minutes), works out the sides and plays the whole thing back around the system's star. Quiet stretches are compressed and the clock says how much time it skipped, so a five-hour fight still reads as one story. It works like a battle report you can watch rather than a table you have to read.
How to replay a battle
- Pick a battle. Open ef-map.com/?panel=battle-replay and choose from Recent battles, right-click any star on the map and choose Replay Battles Here, or press the play button next to a system in the Killboard's Systems tab.
- Set the window. A histogram shows the system's kills (ships solid, structures hatched). The replay opens on the detected fight; drag either handle to start or end it somewhere else, or jump to the system's other fights.
- Check the sides. Sides are suggested from who killed whom. Move any tribe, or a single pilot, to another side or a new one if the suggestion is wrong.
- Press Play. Choose 30 seconds, 1, 1.5 or 2 minutes. The camera eases onto the system and slowly orbits it while the fight plays.
- Share it. Copy link gives a URL that opens the same system and window for anyone.
What you see
The pilot ring
Each side owns an arc around the star and each pilot is a node on it. Nodes grow with kills, glow while a pilot is on a streak and go hollow for a moment when they lose a ship.
Kills in flight
Every kill is a tracer from the killer to the victim. A ship kill bursts with debris; a structure kill caves in as a square.
Callouts
First blood, multi-kills, kill streaks, shut-downs (ending someone's streak), revenge kills, structure purges and lead changes, one at a time at the top of the screen.
Scoreboard and chart
Kills and losses per side, ships and structures, pilots seen so far, a running kills-by-side chart and a feed of who killed whom.
End card
The sides table plus the standouts: most kills, longest streak, most structures destroyed and the pilot who kept coming back after losing ships.
Made for recording
The recording view hides the map interface while it plays, the controls fade when the mouse is still, and the music ('Crusader' by Scott Buckley, CC BY 4.0) is timed to finish on the last frame.
How the sides are worked out
An EVE Frontier killmail names one killer and one victim, so there is no list of everyone on the kill to read sides from. Battle Replay looks at who shot whom instead: tribes that never killed each other but fought the same enemies are suggested as one side, and two tribes that traded kills are never put together. In BNL|321 that suggests Algorithmic Warfare, The Agency with The Ancients, and Clonebank 86. It is a suggestion, and the board says so: you can change it before you press Play.
What a killmail does not say
Killmails record a killer, a victim, a time, a system and whether a ship or a structure was lost. They carry no hull, no value and no position. So Battle Replay counts kills and losses rather than value destroyed, declares no winner, and draws the ring as a diagram of who fought whom rather than a picture of where ships were. Tribes are each pilot's current tribe. Under Cycle 7's Fog of War, only systems charted on the EF-Map community map can be replayed.
Related tools
- Killboard - Kills, losses and leaderboards for pilots and tribes
- State of the Frontier - Weekly report with a map of where kills happened
- Log Parser - Your own game logs on the map, with your kills and deaths pinned
- Cinematic Mode - More ways to film the map
- All EF-Map features
Frequently asked questions
How do I replay a battle in EVE Frontier?
Open EF-Map's Battle Replay at ef-map.com/?panel=battle-replay and pick a fight from Recent battles, or right-click a star on the map and choose Replay Battles Here. Check the window and the sides, choose a length and press Play. It is free and runs in the browser.
What does BR mean on EF-Map?
BR is short for Battle Replay, EF-Map's tool that plays an EVE Frontier fight back on the star map kill by kill. It is a battle report you watch: pilots on a ring around the star, kills flying from killer to victim, a scoreboard per side and a summary card at the end.
How does Battle Replay decide the sides?
From who killed whom. Tribes that never killed each other but fought the same enemies are suggested as one side, and tribes that traded kills are never put together. You can move any tribe or pilot to another side before you play, because a killmail names only one killer and the suggestion can be wrong.
Why does Battle Replay show no ISK or FOAM value?
EVE Frontier killmails carry no hull and no value, so the replay counts kills and losses, ships and structures, rather than value destroyed. It also declares no winner.
Which battles can I replay?
Any fight recorded on the EF-Map killboard this cycle, in a system charted on the EF-Map community map. Under Fog of War an uncharted system is never named or placed, so its fights cannot be replayed until someone charts it.
Can I record and share a battle replay?
Yes. The recording view hides the map interface while the replay plays, ready for a screen recorder, and Copy link shares a URL that opens the same system and time window for anyone.