For me I don't find it ture, that you have to change your combo based on who your opponent is. If you have a good combined arms fleet, then you should be able to take on any opponent, base on how you fight. Just becuase there TEC player's can still use a carrier heavy combo, not just the Advent. I think that those post where talking about people how use that factions bonuses too much. Advents do have high use of Anti-matter and powerful squadrons, which lead people to think that they will have a larger number of carriers and support ships. This lead Vasari players into thinking that a good combo to counter is Ravastra Skirmisher and Junsurak Sentinel. But the Advents can still build powerful battleships and heavy cruisers. Just because they know what faction there opponent is, does not mean they know what that player is building.

Will any way here some of my combo

Junsurak Sentinel/Karrastra Destructor/Lasurak Transpoter(with mostly bombers)
Here why. In the late game, where you are attacking your opponents planets, the fleet on fleet battles become cut and mouse games. So you should not have your capital ships sit in the middle gravity well where your opponent can trap you. A low cost fleet of this combo allows you to destory an enemy world, while keeping your fleet on the move. The Karrastra destructor should make up 50% of the fleet while the the Junsurak Sentinel protect against fighter attacks from enemy carriers at the edge of the gravity well. The Lasurak Transpoter bombers are there to destroy tactical structures and there builders, being build by the planet that you are attacking.Your main fllet should clear out the defense before this fleet jumps in to finsh off the planet thougth.

How would any of you vasari experts deal with someone rushing straight to kodiaks? Don't get me wrong, I wish more people would realise tech levels = number of labs not the amount of research. But I am curious how you build a bigger economy and match them to rush to enforcers. I was able to claw my way to Transporters easily enough but I could never seem to put together enough bombers to deal with a mid/early 20+ upgraded kodiaks at a time. I am able to match TEC people, sort of, in ships, even with the weak mining based early economy, but I can't seem to find enough money for labs/research to match TEC there.

The Vasari economy isn't THAT bad that they can't counter Kodiaks with Enforcer/Transporter combos. In fact, the Vasari are stronger resource-wise with Matter Processors on Level 2, combined Metal/Crystal Extractor technology, a max Extractor upgrade of 35%, and the Jikara Navigator's asteroid-capturing ability. The TEC get their Orbital Refineries on Level 4, have separate Metal/Crystal Extractor techs, and have a max Extractor upgrade of 33% in each. The TEC does have better money techs with Trade Ports on Level 2 and bigger/better pop-cap upgrades.

The TEC were obviously tech-rushing to Kodiaks. The Vasari can similarly tech-rush for Enforcers and Transporters, or even pull the infamous Returning Armada rapid-research gambit with a little more time.

Yeah I figured resource techs and sales were important, but in a test offline I found the extraction techs really only seem to pay off well if they're left til I'm about to get a second ice or volcanic planet plus my captured asteroids. It just seems like their upfront costs in labs and research for a lot of economy aiding techs (slave labour, salvage destroyed ships, etc) are very very high compared to what I can get away with as TEC. Similarly the refineries are very expensive to set up as compared with traders, both in research (3 extraction techs first), then ~1500creds+resources unless you wait even longer and get slave labour up, and then you depend on people buying on the black market to see a decent early return from it.

At what point would you research the salvage destroyed ships tech in a game?

1) Get cap ship
2) Get ability to make missle frigates
3) Make missle frigates
4) Research phase missles
5) Profit

Honestly, unless you're playing with a friend who wants to fast-tech you to dark armada, this is the easiest way to pull off wins with any of the 3 races.