There needs to be a race-specific support cruiser that reduces healing from ability sources...

A battle-ball of fragile Gardas surviving a wail sounds particularly stupid. I was under the impression that wail dealt damage instantly? If so, how could the healing keep them alive? Or was it the damage mitigation from the Ankylon? There are a number of moving pieces at play, aren't there?

Figure out which one caused such a dramatic outcome in favor of the Loyalist player, and then bring it to the attention of the community.

I don't find flak to be the issue, however. We all know that flak is versatile and useful to build a fleet out of, no need to continue your debate of whether or not it's healthy for the game (I realize that I'm speaking to the deaf, but I figured I needed to actually say it ). If anything is overpowered, it's titans. They make fleet building against turtled defenses and large fleets so repetitive.

Titans are actually the thing I dislike most about Rebellion, having always felt that they invalidated a lot of the game.

I'm glad that we've found a true counter to this situation. Case closed. Thanks Seleuceia

I realize that there have been thousands of threads complaining about titans in general, but let's not leave the scope of this thread. Group Shield is probably the culprit in this case. The Ankylon probably scales well into late game simply because of the percentage damage mitigation it offers through group shield on the surrounding frigates. Do the Advent have many ways to stop this battle-ball strategy? Repulsion spam? A wail was used to no effect. Perhaps Unity Mass with chaining damage would've been the most effective. Perhaps the Advent really just need a way to debuff smaller ships? Instead of having the Domina perform its peculiar channeled disable, perhaps it should render individual enemy frigates immune to buffs? I find this to be a micro-intensive, yet probably useful for the Advent overall. We all know that the Vasari don't care much for shields any way, so I doubt that they need it. I'd like to see how the TEC Rebels deal with a late-game TEC Loyalist fleet...

So Seleuceia is advocating that players abuse technical exploits in order to obtain an advantage? Is this guy serious? Trolling or not, that is a very serious breach of the Code of Conduct... And he had the gall to insert that troll remark at the end...

Let this post be a lesson to all who want to conclude something is over powered based on a 5s Multiplayer Game playing at the ECO SPOT.

The most important thing to understand is an eco player has to freedom to do just about anything to exploit certain buffs of the game unless the opposite enemy eco player expands quickly towards him and starts attacking him.

Flak is a very situational thing because they reach critical mass and can't be defeated or the opponent fields any titan/starbase and there useless against it. 

E.g 100 upgraded Flak Frigates+ Ankylon vs 40 upgraded Kodiaks+Ragnarov? I Don't think they can handle Heavy Armor fleets.