As far as design, the radiance is the most appearance friendly, with a sleek streamlined hull.

With the siege cap being my least favourite (Been playing so much vasari lately I forgot it's name >.<)

-RedSoviet

Thats the Halycon Carrier. The two constant bonuses are great, especially the increase for energy weapons... Great for any illuminator fleet.

my favorite = the Halycon Carrier

1: its energy aura gives cooldown bonus for every ENERGY WEAOPON inside, as far as i know there are only 3 types of attack that do not count as energy

1: TEC rockets
2: Vasari Missles
3: TEC Siege Nukes
(Advent siege bombs ARE energy )

this aura makes it why i get it as my 2e capital
the ability to have an aditional fighter per squadron every level also adds up to overall damage (specialy when using fighters to hit weaker targets)
it has pretty good offensive placed beam turrets, with a little microing the arrays between enemy fleets it does the most damage of any carrier type (+ the high amount of strike craft (standard + upgrade)

all this makes this a very nice capital ship to have in your fleet,
it's only drawback is ofcourse the sluggishnes of any capital ship + the issue of surviving against Vasari Phase Missles (combined)

Rapture Battlecruiser.
It becomes the flagship for my fleet and remains so throughout the game. I find I really don't need more than one, ever, instead I get doubles of Halcyons and Radiances.

I always get and give priority to Vertigo as it's cheap and has a fast cool down. You can really hamper your opponent when all of his cap ships and most of his cruisers are hit with this.

Next is Vengeance and works extremely well in self targeting usage as the Rapture is a lucrative target.

Concentration Aura is good, but Advent strike craft are already a force to be reckoned with, and unless I'm building alot of Drone Hosts, I put my points elsewhere.

The only con I've noticed with the Rapture is that it's not so good under heavy fire. It can dish out pretty good damage but can't take it. In fact, I've found the Rapture gets in trouble faster than any other advent cap ship except maybe the Progenitor. But once I have it covered by a pair of Radiances, and backed up with a Halcyon and a Revelation or a Progenitor, it dominates the battlefield.

Oh, and speaking of Domination it's a truly wonderful late game ability, especially when you have Disciples stealing antimatter and giving it to the Rapture; all of a sudden, your enemy is down 5 or 6 heavy cruisers and you're up 5 or 6 hehe!

i tend to start with the mothership as i can immediately start capping asteroids and wewaker planets just minutes into the game. once it upgrades the shield regen is quite awsome in fleet combat, not as effective if your opponent is focus firing on one ship at a time but when the fire is spread out it makes your fleet increadibly resilient. malic is nice too but it is a really short duration and it doesnt seem quite as worth the energy as shield regen, unless you're gonna pop off a cleansing brillience of course. never used ressurection so not sure how good it is

but the motherships is my favorite early game ship as it can cap planets and is excellent fleet support. late game i try and get at last 3 capital ships so im not really sure which is my favorite.

i love the radiance most. superb shape, good firepower and cleansing brilliance is totally awesome   

1.) The halcyon carrier, because I love strikecraft and the halcyon is a king among carriers.

2.) Mothership, very nice support abilities. Malice and shield regen is very good.

My favorite ship is the Halcyon Carrier... It's also usually my flagship.

My main reason is it's fighter support and heavy firepower. This thing packs almost as much firepower as a battleship when you level it up or research the right techs.

As for starter ship, I usually build a Halcyon Carrier and imediately save up for a Progenitor Mothership right afterwards as soon as I've researched the right tech. With this combo no "neutral" faction can stand up to me and colonizing is easy and quick. Usually by the time the mothership is built, my halcyon is ready for battle and has already cleared two or three planets. It's just a matter of having the mothership follow the halcyon's path, colonizing everything on that path until it catches up with the halcyon in the midst of a battle

Yeah.



I really don't find the Progenitor useful except being able to colonize. I hate Colony Frigates, and I won't tell you why because it's too long and I'm too lazy to type it up.

Everyone says it's amazing in combat. In my opinion, it sucks. I once had a small fleet lead by a Progenitor so I could use it as an example so I could know how powerful it was. 3 Kodiaks downed it. So in my opinion it sucks in combat.

Please correct me if I'm wrong.

C'mon, nobody likes the Jalepeno? Clairvoyence can be useful and Provoke Hysteria is pretty sweet...I like all the Advent Capital Ships!

That ability is just plain creepy.

But then those planets are not generating economy+metals and the such as quickly... >.<