Any chance the Subverters are also using their Distortion Field ability? That can really ruin your day - one of them can lock down a lot of your frigates (especially if they're bunched up together) for 20 seconds. Nineteen Subverters managed carefully have a total disabling time of 380 seconds (which is a lot of lost firepower and ability usage, needless to say). If your Dunovs have EMP Bomb, use one on a cluster of Subverters - Distortion Field costs a lot of a Subverter's antimatter (around one third) and a level 3 EMP can remove one use.
Thats why using LFs is critical against Subverters - They do extra damage, cripple abilities AND on top of that they are much easier to mass then kodiaks (disabling 18 kodiaks hurt as hell, while disabling 18 Cobalts is not worth getting subverters...). EMP can help too, but massed Cobalts are safer no-micro requiring option.
If this is an AI player we're talking about, then it will probably waste all of its DF casts on a few targets and once the initial lockdown has passed, you have some time to kill the Subverters. Only Capitals and strike craft are unaffected by DF, but SC have pretty awful damage multipliers against support cruisers (25% for fighters, 50% for bombers) and Capitals don't have the damage to kill them quick enough.
Again: LFs. Extra damage, cheap, massable and can cripple support abilities...
Using SC in this scenario is limited because of Kortuls. He must take care of Kortuls first or do not use carriers.
Capital ship levels might also help. A level 6+ Marza with Missile Barrage can damage the entire enemy fleet all at once (just don't give it orders while MB is being used or let a Kortul with Disruptive Strikes fire on it). IIRC, Missile Barrage will do something like 3000 damage to every target in range if the full duration of the ability is used.
Agree, but he need:
- lvl6 Marza
- no kortuls with disruptive strikes
It is not going to be easy, since his first cap (i guess) was akkan, and enemy already has 2 kortuls...