Ya, Ive tried the same thing.  The biggest problem seems to be that the Advent starbase just gets pwned so EASILY compared to the others...Meteor storm is cool, but when you compar 500 damage output to say...8000 floating point damage (TEC self destruct) or 200% damage reduction with continuous health renewal (Vasari SB), it just seems like the Advent got ripped.

You people kidding me?  we gonna start down grading the advent?  they are the weakest of all currently.  I always like to play as the underdogs.  The stupid TEC Hoshiko prevents anything from dying,  I freaking swear.  I can't counter mass anything with Hoshikos.

Holy crap, my thread got linked to twice!

A fully upgraded Transcendia gets slightly over 10k shields and about 17.5k hp, which actually puts it right around the Argonev. Having 70% shield mitigation instead of 60% puts it over the top in survivability. It deals about 191/200/148 damage with its 3 weapons by info-card with the lowest being the psi-pewpew. Meteor and Mass Disorient is a fantastic combo, because Disorient makes a ton of ships unable to fire since weapons require facing and disoriented ships just spin around.

Anyway, Adjudicators are great for taking out clustered defenses of the TEC/Vasari, but they're much slower on Advent's (shield mitigation on turrets) and starbases, since they trade high single target damage for being able to attack 5 at once.

I've never had a problem assaulting starbases directly, though it does depend on the number of ships I've got. Guardians + Progenitor's shield restore is still a great combo to use, due to the starbase attacking lots of targets. All starbases are also defenseless against bombers and rely on other things to take 'em out. The TEC hangars aren't that much of a threat when you got enough bombers going since they're still limited to a few targets at a time, but the Vasari ones are annoying since they hold your mass for a while

When all that fails, maxing out Temples of Communion on your front lines can make battles over before they start.  An effective and SUPER irritating advent strategy I've used, is a Starbase, surrounded by 5-8 (Depending on Logistics slots available) Communion Temples, Which are then surrounded and mixed in with lots of defensive structures.  This is irritating because even if the planet is bombed and you lose control, you still have seriously like a 50.0 Cultur rate spread and to take that out, they're gonna have to sac out lots of units and time.  Not to mention you get that nice mitigation boost for your assault forces.

Yeah, I dont actually "mass" units normally-Its not strategic .  Thanks for the info though-Annatar11's thread was IMMENSLY useful-I actually never noticed the shield mitigation of synergy.  I also didnt realize before how powerful mass disorient really was...  Now that I know how powerful Advent defenses really can be (and yes, I tested those strategies before I posted this) I'm happy, cause I dont want to desert the Advent.  I still have trouble killing starbases, true, but the fact that my opponent now has just as much completely satisfies me.

Edit: @Love9sick...I completely agree with you.  I am NOT calling for a starbase or carrier or ANYTHING nerf...I just wanted to check and see if anybody had seen a strength of Advent that I has missed out on...  I was worried that the Advent starbase was a weakling, therefore making the faction *nearly* useless in Entrenchment.

What level is activate brains?  LOL. 

You can beat a sb with only a radiance underfire. Get one to level 6 then spam cb at the sb. Use vengeance and subs with heal + progen shield restore to keep alive.Use gaurdians too.Sb takes 200% of what it is dealing along with cb.It takes awhile but you can do it with no losses this way.Throw is sc or starfish for quicker destruction.O ya by this time you should have battleball so keep your haly near the starfish for 22% fire rate buff and keep your carriers near your rapture for 30% sc damage buff.

Speaking of which couldn't you also use the Radiance to suppress the starbases abilites like deflectors?