I agree. The low DPS of Vasari cap ships is not that bad, but it seems a little unfair.

 

Whys should the maruader get weak guns just because it has decent abilities, when the other races' cap ships get both?

 

Actually its about both. Its about combat prowess AND strategy.

Lore wise, the Vasari ARE militaristic and their technology IS focused on combat eg. phase missiles.

 

They WERE militeristic.  Then they got their asses handed to them by something and now they are trying to make due with what little they have left.  I guess if you consider guerillias militaristic then yes, they still are.  However, most guerilla forces tend to favor hit and run attacks, where they quickly hit a little bit at a time and then go back into hiding, rather than facing a conventional military force.  Again, I guess it is military strategy, and if you want to be literal, most any technology could be considered militaristic if used properly.  However, I wasn't being that literal.  Wheras the TEC and Advent technology is based more around dealing and taking damage, the Vasari's isn't about pure weapons, but about their ability to manuever their forces and run away when a superior force shows up.  One of their capitals (the egg) is even described to be a flying city, hardly a military ship.  (True the TEC ships are mostly retrofitted trade ships, but those ships are still designed NOW to kill things, whereas I doubt the space egg is really designed with an offensive purpose in mind, lorewise).

 

And as for the protoss reference, I was referring to the preconception most people have that in any game that has 3 factions, one has to be the spam more units than the enemy to win, one has to be use plenty of fairly strong units, and one has to be the one where one unit can take on multiple enemy units and come out on top, but whose units are more expensive.

Every race has a civilian cap ship (Akkan, mother ship). Whats your point?

Lore wise, the Vasari might be running away, but they have been rebuilding their empire in Trader Space. They are still slavers and still an oppresive empire, hence the name of many of their upgrades. They emphasise on geurilla combat because they are outnumbered, but they are militarily superior to the TEC.

Ok, so say you're from the future with a powerful laser rifle, and you go to a planet full of modern technology (ballistic weapons etc) and start shooting. There's one of you, and a good laser rifle, but you're fighting millions of soldiers. Even if their weapons are inferior, they will still kill you.

The Vasari are a remnant of a remnant of what they once were. Their empire crumbled as they fled the disaster that they created, and they didn't have the sheer numbers required to support the war effort, hence the drawn out stalemate. Their technology is vastly superior, in all aspects, which means that even though lore-wise, they weren't very combat focused, their technology had eliminated obsolete and inferior technologies long ago.

As to the point made about Vasari being "obviously militaristic" because of stuff like phase missiles, the superior phase tech of Vasari isn't made for combat, it was just incorporated into some aspects of combat to meet the enemy threat of the TEC and Advent

the vasari just cheat with abilities so they may as well remove all weapons on their caps.

the kortul is one of the nastiest, worst things you can face.

 

Becasue of the damage? hell no.   Weapon damage on capitals is irrelevant.

 The kortuls nastieness comes from being able to both heal itself and increase its own abilitey to cripple you. 

Disruptive strikes will eat your antimatter, and since power surge not only heals the kortul but also makes it shoot faster.... 

 2 (better 3) of these will cripple titans, capitals and starbases while healing themselves all the time.

 

 

if yo uwant t ocpmplai nabout vasri cap ships: when was the last time you build the antarok or the devastator?

vasari is so unbalanced that their caps dont even matter.