Its a lot harder with a Vasari starbase, but yeah you can still kite it. Because its so big it helps to try and get it suck behind planetary structures and resource asteroids too. Make sure to have a couple of Skinatras for repair cloud and extra bombers if needed.

There is sort of micro for orky to bypass all obstacles. Just wait till carriers are on opposite side of gravity well and send it to target those carriers. Orky will go below or above planet and it will stay in that plane..... this effectively rids you of all structure obstacles. 

BTW bomber attack is effectively negated with a few well placed hangar bays with phasic trap....

Shut down the phasic traps by draining the hanger's antimatter, THEN deploy your strike craft.

If you have that massive of a fleet, just rush the hangers with frigates and clear them that way.  Keeping momentum with huge forces is critical; in these kind of late game battles (especially against Vasari with phase stabilizers) you need to be able to break through a fully upgraded starbase in under a minute.

If there isn't a large frigate force standing right next to the starbase, you shouldn't have any risk of losing a capital ship.  A starbase's single-target damage just isn't high enough to really threaten a capital ship if you have any form of healing available at all.  It will beat you eventually, but if you're quick about it then that's not a big deal.

If you're not willing to risk your capital ships, then leave them behind the rest of the fleet and order them to retreat first if things get to hairy.

Just to reiterate, a star-base without a support fleet is actually not much of a hindrance. Especially Vasari as it simply cannot threaten a massive fleet. My typical invasion fleet (2-3 Caps, 20-25 HC's, 6-8 Carriers-40/60 Fighter/Bomber, 10-15 Support/Healing Cruisers, 35+ LRF, 10-15 LF, 5 SF-if you have scouted mines) will roll even a fully upgraded Orky in a minute tops. Now, it can be a bit harder if someone has taken to make an effective support for the Orky ( Repair Bays and massed Missile Platforms with max Phase Missile upgrades) but even with all of that, my fleet outlined above should roll through that relatively easily if you have upgraded as well.

If you are trying to kill a starbase with a carrier only fleet, then stagger the launch of your strikecraft. If you ensure that at any given moment there are some flying in, attacking, flying out and circling back around you will make it such that either the autocast may not trigger or if it does it will only get maybe 1/3 of your SC. That strategy has worked pretty well for me, I never have too many issues with Phasic Trap.

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I'm pretty sure mitigation increases instantly.

Egads, Shows how long its been since I played against a Phasic Trap lol!

Well if you are TEC then the Dunov can come to the rescue vs those mean evil Phasic Traps! EMP=Antimatter DEATH!!!!

If you are Advent then que up a dozen or so disciples and Steal Antimatter to your hearts content! Ten-15 should make short work of the Antimatter and if you have some defense vessels escorting you wont have to worry too much about SC retaliation, once Antimatter is drained, launch your hordes of SC and CRY HAVOK!!!!!

1.3 put a target cap on phasic trap.

Confirmed Last night. Phasic Trap now has a 10 Target Cap. The Fan Boys can howl and the Critics can thank the Heavens.

Interesting how it's least effective on the Advent due to their number of strikecraft per squad, contrary to the Vasari's general effectiveness. Wonder if that was intentional or just easiest for the developers to code.