Best capital ship » Forum Post by homefleet

Vasari desolator is - late game, this is the single best cap to cap ship because of its phase missles. Since they COMPLETELY negate shields and shield mitigation, you can litterally destroy any ship but the kol befor it's shields are down, and MUCH more real damage is inflicted by negation of mitigation. Ignoring the fact that because it's a siege ship, it has the highest DPS of your cap varaties - ignoring abilities.

Vasari marauder is the best harrasment cap in the game, can kite anything with it's huge speed, and supporting strike forces can make them so fast TEC flak can't even hit them, and though it has horrible stats at low level, improves the most of any cap in the game from level to level, and gets a HUGE damage boost from upgrading beams [35% damage up to its main damage inflictor]

The Space Whale can defeat any cap one on one with it's nanite attack - which at lvl 3 will take out any non cap in one hit, [given time to do it's full DOT] and with its colonization and large anti matter reserve generally making it the best choice on a large map, and its VERY useful skill making it a viable choice on small 1v1, 2v2 maps, especially being able to deal 1500damage to any planet in 30 seconds, i.e. best planet killer in game.

Nothing too special about the carrier other than it's huge damage potential with bombers, microphasing aura [which makes bombers get hit less often, and attack more often] and repair ability that is perfectly suited to supporting its strike force, UNLIKE the advent mothership, which is only good as a support. [Strike forces doonae has shields]

The devastor is excellent at destroying fleets, but its skills aren't suited to 1v1 cap fights, since it's lvl 6 AOE attack doesn't deal enough damage to a cap to make it useful, but can destroy an entire fleet of LRM blobs, though its antimatter destroying and ability disabling passive ability seems good, it doesn't make enough of a difference to prevent enemy caps from raping it. However, the more of them there are, the better they get, unlike most caps which don't have a force multiplier effect [great example of force multiplier is dunov's supporting a kol, individually they're all pretty easy to destroy, together they can take out nearly anything]

And while a lot of this advice is from people who have obviously not been playing long enough, you get the gist of the other races.

Except for my comment on the TEC carrier and siege cap - the carrier initially seems sucky as TEC strike forces are shit next to Advent and Vas, but it has a frankly rediculously OP ability that basically doubles it's bombers health.
Not as gamebreakingly OP as Malice, but still enough so it can generally defeat any other cap.

Finally, the marza dreadnought has the largest DPS of the TEC caps, and it's the only real anti-fleet cap in the TEC's aresenal, who will generally wipe out your caps in a real engagement, but have trouble defeating an actual fleet of some 2 or 3 hundred odd ships [unlike a single devastor, which could easily destroy every single one of them if it was an LRM blob, because of it's LVL6's AOE effect that makes ship explosion deal damage to surrounding ships - you can easily chain the entire blob into a rolling wave of *tear* as the TEC/Advent player crys at the massive waste of resources[vas LRMs will generally survive this because of their high health]