Thanks a lot, transitive.

The spreadsheet is the problem, as I guessed. You can never be sure how many of the guns can actually fire in one direction, as you have shown with your Jarrasul Evacuator example.

And to be honest, if we just play the Vasari ingame, their capital ship dps does not feel lower than that from other races. They just do not have Missile Barrage. Sorry for beating that horse again, SCNR.

Ok, I've been convinced that the Kortul and Vulkoras need no DPS boost.

But, the Antorak is still seriously lacking in firepower. This ship needs a DPS boost because it has no abilities that deal damage

  Another thing that's being over looked is the regeneration rates of both hull and shield points.  Personally I've always felt that the Vasari caps were built with more of a focus for survival over damage dealing (which fits along with the whole fleeing forces over reigning rulers sort of thing).  But the Vasari as a whole have a generally higher hp regen rate then TEC or Advent, which does make them harder to down.  (And man have I seen them survive some insane amounts of focus fire before..)  While the Advent may have lower hull points, they've much higher shields and shield regen.  And shields generally fluctuate a lot faster then hull points too, so it still keeps them in relative balance with the rest.

  Oh, and the Revelation fires forward, at very least!  I forget if it has any side or rear facing guns, actually, I don't watch it very much.  It's an ugly shoe with an antenna, and I just enjoy watching the Radiance a WHOLE lot more.  THAT one is a pretty ship.  Heh.  BUT, the Revelation's Reverie ability is of great use stopping fleeing ships of import (typically capitals, obviously), even if it is unfortunately single target only.

Before I see anymore phase missile arguments can I just mention that most Vasari caps don't have a high percentage of phase missile damage, it's only the Desolator that phase missile tech significantly effects.

You can compare dps of Dunnov to egg, and any conclusion you get will be worth nothing.  Simply comparing DPS is sily to me.

I'm not fond of the Antorak myself because I tend to play at the macro level, but a micro intensive player can do some really naughty things with one.  It is very handy when you want to get away or bypass a PJI, but the flip side of this is you can also chase very effectively.  You can also use Phase out Hull to interrupt a ship trying to make a phase jump so that when phase out hull wears off it has to restart the jump.  If someone is trying to retreat, you use it to slow down their capital so your fleet can catch up and then keep the capital from jumping.  You do some damage each time Phase Out Hull wears off and it starts trying to jump.  A high level Antorak with strong antimatter regen can use Phase Out Hull many, many times in a row, so you can kill an enemy capital ship this way by repeatedly breaking phasejump alignment.

It is also really good at keeping enemy caps tied up from using their special abilities in a fight.  Keep Phasing out an enemy Progen and watch an Advent Battleball crumble without shield regen.  Also pretty much the only thing Vasari has to stop Missile Barrage or Cleansing Brilliance.

You can phase out your own ships when they are being damaged to keep them alive a bit longer.  Obviously this is useless if your fleet is getting wiped, but it can situationally be used to keep your caps alive by preventing them from being targetted in fight that you are not losing.  (You know...when someone suicides 30 Illums / HC's to kill your capital ship.)

marauder is grate ship just to have, its the second cap i build after egg if i play vas.

third whuld be carrier or another marauder...

Subversion stacks, embargo no logner stacks.

The antourak has to have wet noodles and yo mama jokes if it is going to ignore PJIs and increase speed and acceleration.

Is nobody from the beta left?

Alright, if you think the Vasari are so poor now in a stand up fight, in beta, they were even poorer in such a fight.  I don't remember exact numbers, but the Vasari cost for cost (both in terms of resource cost and fleet upkeep cost) were the worst of all the races, by far, which the beta community cried out against.  So the devs buffed it.  At the time, yes, I thought the Vasari needed a buff, but they are fine now, because I never pit a Vasari fleet against an evenly matched, much less superior force, I have the TEC for that.  The Vasari are a decimated empire on the run, the devs never designed them to be good in a standup fight.  Vasari are all about guerilla warfare.  TEC were designed with a standup fight in mind.  It's not about combat prowess, it's about strategy.  The devs straight out said that the Vasari's advanced technology (lore wise) was not focused in a combat area.

And as far as racial balancing, I would imagine the other races would give an arm and a leg for the abillity to ignore phase lanes and warp their ships directly from one of their planets to an enemy planet (Kostura Cannon, and that Marauder that you say has such poor DPS).  Personally, if I could play as TEC, I would imagine I would pay twice the cost of the Marauder to have one with no DPS at all, just so I could race it to the enemy's homeworld and jump my fleet in.

This is not Starcraft, the Vasari are not protoss.  This is not Halo, the Vasari are not Covenant.  I could keep going, but I hope I've made my point. 

Sorry if it sounded condescending or rude, it was not intended to be.

Personally I believe the Marauder was never meant for combat it is more for fleet support like the distort gravity and phase node but also for crippling your enemy while there is combat. I do agree that subversion is nothing like embargo but it really depends on the perspective. Lets say that you attack the enemy plannet which has a whole bunch of factories. He can replenish his forces easily but If you send a couple of marauders to subvert the planet while the rest of your fleet fights the enemy he is pretty much @$3%&1. If you use embargo, big whoop he just looses some money from the planet but the production is still the same and underway in which case you are @$3%&1. So it really depends on perspective. I hope I proved my point.

I agree as obviously pointed out.