TEC - Kol #1, Sova #2, Dunov #9...lol

Advent - To be honest, all of them besides the revelations battlecruiser are #1 on my list, they all rock in their own way(And even more when together)

Vasari - Antorak,Evacuator and Devastator are all #1, haven't tried the other 2.

Ummm... I can tell you the worst is the KOL!

I think Akkan is by far the most useful TEC ship. Aside from the colonize feature it offers pretty good fire power and its targeting buff that augments fleets around it.

A kol teaming up with an akkan with the fully maxed targetting buff is an insane combo but kol by itself is just decent.

Playing as the advent, the mothership isn;t nearly as powerful as an Akkan firpowerwise, the debuff it has is pretty decent and my make up some slack but requires a larger fleet to make up the difference.

I have only goofed around with the Vasari for just a wee bit and didn;t really try out too many of their caps.

question does the Radiance ability 'Animosity' work when you play against other players. Because it is suppose to make ships near it attack itself. But if you select your ships again and click on the target will they continue to fire at the Radiance or go back to the target you want them to attack?

I think the Revelation BC level 6 ability has to be one of the coolest in the game. It takes down enemy planets very quickly and with great style (screaming skulls that give my wife the heebie-jeebies). The Mezmerize ability on the ship can also be extremely useful, although it can also cause trouble if not carefully monitored.

Heck, that gives ME the heebie jeebies!

The Revelation is my favorite ship for a number of reasons, including that ability to destroy a planet with a psionic rage virus, and the ability to see anywhere in the galaxy, which makes up for my poor scouting skillz.

Yes it will, if the ships are in the area and are able to attack they will stop what they are doing and attack the ship for a short time. So it could be a bad thing if you don't plan it right.

I'd like the Akkan more if the Ion Bolt wasn't so worthless.

At the highest level, it's what, a 7 second freeze? That's pathetic. I've never seen a situation where that makes-or-breaks a fight.

I forgot the name of it, but there's another Cap Ship ability that disables all your abilities for like 30 seconds. That's ridiculously powerful compared to the crappy Ion Bolt.

I was hoping Ion Bolt was a good solution to fleeing ships, until I used it, and couldn't even get their shields halfway down before they were active again, and I had a huge cooldown to wait for.

I don't know if you noticed but I think a handful of Scout frigates will outdamage an Akkan.

Ion Bolt is pathetic. It's only BARELY useable at level 3 with 7 seconds. 3 seconds at level 1?

Colonize is far from a novelty. With your first free Cap you can get an Akkan and trounce on planets almost immediately. It isn;t unusal for someone with an Akkan or similar ship to have 2-3 planets capped within 5 minutes of a game beginning. That is a huge advantage over building settler ships.


Also an akkan also helps when you are conquering because you can set up forward bases almost immediately after destroying someones planet.

Depending on how many fronts there are you usually want to have 1 colonize cap ship per front unless it is a small map.

For the TEC -

1) Akkan - Ion Bolt is superb, Colonise is very handy and the Target Uplink ability makes LRMs and Kols, as well as Bombers in range far more deadly, and the ship isn't too shabby at fighting.

2) Kol - for simple firepower, extremely handy, and it has pretty respectable hitpoints, too. The Flak ability is completely pish, mind, but the Gauss Cannon, when used en-masse with another couple of Kols, can be used to tear apart enemy cap ships (Carriers a speciality)

3) Sova - decent weapons, and at a high level, the Heavy Fighters and Heavy Manufacturing abilities are invaluable, Embargo is handy and the Missile Platforms are vaguely useful, too.

4) Dunov - the shield restore ability is handy, although it needs some serious micro to work properly, the computer unnervingly targets Cobalts with it when your Kols are about to blow up and the EMP attack is fairly alright (nothing special, though, and an Akkan's Ion Bolt also stops enemies from using their abilities). Bit weak, though.

5) Dreadnought (forget the name, hardly ever use it) - Extremely dubious. Not as powerful as a Kol for direct firepower, and the anti-planet ability is too weak to really do much of use. Combine that with the lack of any fighter cover until level 5, and it looks a bit rubbish in general.

Yeah but you can trounce on planets with a colony ship also. Engage enemy ships and pull them off to one side of the gravity well (or just on one side of the phase lane) then move in a colony ship from the other side of the lane and colonize the planet right away, then pull it out. Even if the colony ship gets shot up, you only really need to do this twice, after the first two colonies a few seconds of planet capture won't make any difference. Also, wherever you go, you always have a colony ship one phase jump behind anyways, ready to phase in and colonize.

And what do you lose? You get a cap ship with average dps, bad (no?) combat abilities and that's about it. I can never justify building an Akkan cap ship.

TEC: I normally start with a Kol or Dunov. I find that paring these two capital ships together works wonders because the Kol is so tough and the Dunov is pretty quick. A Kol can sit there and soak up damage while a Dunov recharges its shields or runs around trying to avoid enemy fire. I will also use the Sova from time to time mainly for the embargo ability, but that's normally after I have at least 1 Kol and 1 Dunov...normally. A pair of Sova's later in the game excel at harassing enemy assets. Once in a blue moon I'll use an Akkan but normally I don't since a Kodiak and Cielo easily replace it. I never use a Marza because I think it's worthless and can't find an application for it.

Advent: I actually find all of their capital ships to be equally useful. I tend to start off with a Progenitor most of the time since it can spread damage to clumps of enemy ships, heal, and colonize. It also does great damage when you position it properly. Sometimes I don't start with one though. I do really like the Radiance (it's a tank just like the Kol), Rapture (vengeance is great and I love this ship's look), and Halcyon (nice long-range weapons and placement of them). A pair of Halcyon's later in the game excel at harassing enemy assets or preventing escapes. The Revelation is normally something I build after I've got 2 or 3 established capital ships since it excels at support. Overall though, choosing an Advent capital ship heavily depends on what's going on at the moment. I consider these to be the most polished capital ships in the game.

Vasari: I actually think all of their capital ships are rather worthless. I find it more effective to run around with Sentinels, Transporters, and Enforcers. Whenever I play Vasari I always start with a Devastator and build a bunch of them. I will rarely build a Carrier, Evacuator (this is the ugliest ship in the entire game), or Desolator. I never build a Marauder because I find that to be beyond useless. I normally don't play Vasari because I find their capital ships to be so poor and downright ugly (except the Desolator, which looks very nice). It seems that using smaller ships is definitely preferable to me.


Of course, all of the above is just my opinion and the way that I play. This is subject to change if I know something about the map or layout of enemy positions in advance. If I'm unfamiliar with the map or if it's randomly generated I normally always build as indicated above.