You didn't write what kind of fleet do you have and what kind of fleet enemies have. You didn't even mention which expansion are you playing.....

If you play entrenchment or diplomacy I suggest you hole up on your hw. Build sb with repair and some hangars with flak upgrade. Build all this near sb. Build some hoshikas repair as well. Do all this while your allies feed you to upgrade to max your sb and your fleet. You could try to sneak allied vasari sb to your hw planet as well.

AI is stupid and if you can survive their attack (I don't think that ai on hard attack in tandem) If they attack 2 at the time and you have all defenses ready and fully upgraded sb + some of fleet to speed up enemy fleet kill + repair it Make sure though you do have some bombers and fighters to deal with ais cap ships and bombers. you should survive.

AI tends to retreat once he looses his cap ships or at least stop attacking and get his fleet together when new caps come in gravity well. While hes regrouping you can pluck at his fleet..... 

Such things have been done before when people get stuck in a suicide position, but usually without the wormhole bit (they usually put a starbase on their homeworld as well, instead of researching that tech). Is there really no way to get to your allies lines without using the wormhole?

it would probably work if you colonized a ew planet fast enough, mines and starbases are usually pretty easy to avoid

Update: The plan worked, I got 3 new planets near my allies. However, we are still fighting three hard AI's with no resources. Ideas everyone? I'm TEC, what should I invest in?

Well if you are just facing the AI your allies can just starbase their border worlds and be pretty safe lol (and if you really think one starbase isn't enough you can always build a constructor yourself on their planets so the AI has to go through 2 starbases). Now actually winning the game will take a while. Your Vasari guy is going to need to invest in subverters, so if he doesn't have a decent number of planets you should help him get some more. As the TEC you should provide the majority of the DPS, so get a lot of LRMs and HCs/Carriers with some Hoskikos and take out the AIs capitals quick. The Advent has the best tanking ability and the best culture bonus so if you need a fleet to defend your part of the map (you shouldn't if you starbased properly), use his. Otherwise make sure he brings a Progenitor to keep your fleets shields up while most of the rest of his fleet should probably be made up of carriers to give you air superiority. Then just try to advance (it will probably take a while with four) and go for the closest enemy homeworld you can.

May I ask if this is a one-star map? If it isn't, you could rush for another system and colonize the planets there, then set up SB defense at that star, build up your fleet and attack, if it's NOT, then I suggest making a decisive stand, lure in their fleets and crsh them, then steamroll them b4 they can rebuild their fleets.

Using Garda's to soak damage while also having Percherons and LRM's is one of my fave early game tactics, however you'll need to manually tell them to attack ships, and turn off Auto-Attack for Hoshiko's.  Make sure that your Akkan has the passive ability that increases range and accuracy to get the first shots off and increase your Garda's fighting potential (all other units have accuracy of 100% but flak units) Spreading your culture into their territory will help you regenerate Anti Matter so your Akkan's Ion Bolt can stun their caps for longer, and maybe even using the Akkans' Ultimate (Forget it's name) to save your ships, then Kite w/ your Akkan and Carriers AWAY from the enemy fleet so your SC can rape enemy ships while they can't fire on yours (Fighters and flak will, however, still fire at ur bombers) Building a Marza or a Dunov to provide heavy fire and support for your fleet would also be a good idea, Dunov gets either Magnetize or Shield Restore, depending on the enemy fleet, and the Marza should get Radiation Bomb (Only build either ONE or the OTHER, the Marza will eat up smaller ships, especially with Incendiary Shells and Radiation Bomb stacking damage, however RB is expensive, the Dunov will disable enemy SC w/ Magnetize, or Keep another friendly cap alive for much longer w/ Shield Restore) Auto-Manage your Caps abilities, the AI sux at using Cap abilities, save for Hoshiko's repair, just keep them close to the front. In essence, your fleet should look like the below while fighting:

LRMS
LRMS------CAPSHIPS/CARRIERS---HOSHIKOS/GARDAS/COBALTS
LRMS------CAPSHIPS/CARRIERS---HOSHIKOS/GARDAS/COBALTS
LRMS------CAPSHIPS/CARRIERS---HOSHIKOS/GARDAS/COBALTS
LRMS------CAPSHIPS/CARRIERS---HOSHIKOS/GARDAS/COBALTS
LRMS

The Garda's should rush enemy LRF's, the Cobalt's enemy Carriers, the LRM"s should target support/cap ships and the Cap ships should just eat up the fleet overall. (Pressing ALT while selecting a ship in the Empire Tree will select all ships of the same type in that Grav Well, helps out alot in large scale battles) If you're feeling really gutsy, you could Pilot the Akkan/Dunov's right into enemy lines, allowing both sides to fire on enemy ships, maxing out damage.

Any other Cap ships or capable research you have? If you can make Cielo's and Kodiaks, go for it, if you have other caps, tell me and I'll put them into the strat.

Xer0 \^/

Fully upgraded vasari sb with 15 overseers that have tier 3 anti mater researched can withstand anything even vicious AI throws at it. That is other than ogrow spam but as i remember hard ai doesn't spam ships. 

You guys can always use advent sb with culture to take planets and once he cannot build on nearby planets pick structures off and then fleet. 

But I do think SB is a way to go. Let me explain. If you can defend SB you won't loose any or little ships that converts in small expenses to replace your ships. If you go to build ships eventually you will need to make your fleet bigger and with that comes fleet tax. So even less resources for you and your team. Another thing is that Ai is stupid and will fight wherever you want him to.

So you can fight near star base that can deal a lot of damage compared to same amount of resources spend on ships and hell you can make him fight near 3 sb if you guys have a choke point. And with advent spin and meteor shower that combination is unbeatable for 3 vicious allied ais. Another thing to consider is that with sb you can afford to retreat your ships (especially cap ships) and repair them elsewhere. That way you can lvl your caps to lvl 10 and as tec you can easily get missile barrage on your 2 marzas that you will need. After that is gg for ais. 

When your defenses are holding invest in aircraft carriers and put bombers on it. AI at least hard doesn't know how to effectively defend against them and mines he is spamming don't effect them since they don't need to move......  If you still can beat him just wait until he suicides his fleet on your sb and then counter attack. 

Another suggestion is that vasari player on your team researches cap ship resource collection ability. (don't know the name) that gives resources to him whenever enemy ship is destroyed in well that his ships are in. 

Meh, it's the AI, get a bunch of Dunov's and do capship support for your allies.  Sticking two on each allied fleet will make their capships damn near invincible, the AI can't kill for shit when you're restoring shields.  Dunovs also make for invincible starbases too.  The AI really can't kill for shit when a starbase is nuking it.

The AI doesn't handle shield restoration very well at all, use that weakness and go for invincibility till you stop being broke.  A capship fleet is a seriously stupid move against another person, but not against the AI.  When you're in the most fortunate position to combine shield restore with shield regeneration and guardian spam, you might as well be god as far as the AI is concerned, even with ten to one fleet points it's going to lose attacking a starbase surrounded by that combo.

I'd be running pure support, with Advent mostly support and a liberal dosing of disciples for antimatter transfer, and pour your dps into Vasari.  The combined restorative power will take a serious disadvantage just for you to lose frigates.

You don't really need to micro shield restore against the AI unless you're seriously outnumbered.  As long as you buy up to get level 2 shield restore before you're in a predicament where putting those comparably worthless 250 point restores on a frigate would lose you a capital ship, it's fairly irrelevant.  Now a Vengeance/Animosity/Shield Restore crap fest on a particularly huge fleet might get you in trouble without manually casting them, but if he can't handle two Dunov's he's got MS or something.