best advice i can give for Vasari is regarding their civilian development. its a little different than the other factions.

as Vasari you can't get trade ports until civilian tier 4, which is quite late and noticeably more expensive than other factions. however, you have several very strong economic research you can get at tier 3 and i recommend trying to research them as early as you can afford to.

the first of these is Enslaved Labor which makes all of your ships and structures cost 4%/8% less credits. this is a gigantic boost to your economy and lasts throughout the game. it also applies immediately, you don't have to go and build structures to benefit from it like you would with trade and you can't ever lose it if someone attacks you. its an extremely important upgrade, get it every game. 

the second are the Salvaging upgrades. this one lets your capital ships harvest 5/10/15% of the price of enemy structures that you've blown up. this can help feed some aggressive early and mid-game expansion by raiding your enemies frontier worlds and taking out his defenses and trade ports, etc. don't even bother hitting the planet. you basically want him to rebuild so you can hit him again later. quick strikeforce of carriers with bombers or a decent number of Assailants will be able to pull this off easily. you can get alot of credits this way while also slowing down your opponent's development. 

also, don't neglect to build a Media Hub at your homeworld pretty early on. homeworld taxes are your primary income source for most of the game so getting +10% on that is worth quite a bit. spreading your culture has other benefits as well, but the best one is the 10% income upgrade. slightly more important for Vasari than for other factions which can go to trade ports earlier. 

At the start build one Military and one Civilian research lab. Upgrade to build LRM and do the double upgrade of homeworld size in Civilian.   If it wasn't done at the start do the fourth upgrade to your home world.  Build LRM until you've maxed out your fleet cap.  Keep your egg and LRM together with coordinated jumps so the egg gets targeted by a planets defense ships so you don't lose the LRM.

I usually destroy my cap ship factory to give me room for another Civilian research lab at the home world.  With the second civlian research lab you can get Fire & Ice colony as well as upgrade the metal/crystal income twice.

Build two Military research labs on the asteroid (after upgrading the asteroid) and research the carrier.  Upgrade your fleet cap and start building carriers until you get to your second fleet cap.  At this point I also like to start upgrading missile tech which boosts both LRM and fighters (don't build bombers).

Build a Civilian lab then research the metal/crystal income twice again.

Build another Civilian lab then research the trade port and put up at least one trade port up on all worlds.

Research the media hubs and put the hubs up at strategic spots in your systems to get all worlds that 10% bonus.

Research Enslaved Labor and Salvage tech on Civilian.

Build two more military labs to get your cruisers producing.  Continue upgrading fleet tech and military tech.

At some point build the Skirantra Carrier as your second cap ship and max out it's repair ability.

Once the Egg gets to level 6 you should be able to blast any world without needing bombardment frigates.

Vasari is basically speaking a guerilla force but you can lay it down to others in numerically inferior numbers and hold it. what you need to do is capture all the neutrals quickly. you gotta fight for them. squads of 3 work well. only if your outnumberd should you combine.

upgrade your armor and hull points as they get better hull points early game than others. keep your phase missile upgrades going because they are the backbone of your fleet.

in any vasari fleet you always want more kanrak/sentinel/carrier than any other thing. if you get all three then your fleet is completely augmented and if you mix in some of the caps like the skirantra nad the antorak you can be virtually unstoppable.

enforcers are a must now. in a full battle fleet NEVER micro LRM on LRM never. doesnt work. youll lose to the combined firepower of his lrm/ cruisers. what you do is you micro your lrm on his HCs while your HCs completely tear apart his LRMS and because you have the best of the best armor/ hull points comparative to other races you can do well. coupled with reintegration for your enforcers you should be able to take a beating while still dishing one out.

If you mix in the vasari trinity (in my opinion) egg carrier antorak. you should never lose a cap ship. the egg is prob gon be focused on the most so what you do is you repair cloud your fleet and as soon as the enemy starts to micro your caps once it gets down you phase it out while its being healed. your ship is now untouchable and its healing. coupled with repair bays and overseer micro you will never lose a cap ship.

vasari are to date the only race that can completely bypass phase jump inhibitors so remember that. also remember vs advent battle balls you need subverters otherwise that battleball may tear you up.

i hope my advice helps.

Be extremely aggressive and expansionist early on in the game, because you will suffer in the mid game (your economy will lag). Don't worry if you get stretched a little too thin for a while, it's normal. Also, if you are put "on the defensive" - that's the first warning sign of impending doom.

The Vasari need to stay on the offensive! Even if it means you have to bypass an enemy fleet and raid their worlds while they encroach on yours, just hold firm - they will recall to fight you! Just GTFO right before they arrive. Phasic Barrier Tech (on your structures) is very useful for handling these situations.

And FFS be SURE to cap all the neutral extractors - and HOLD THEM.

If you can survive to late game, you can dominate the map militarily.

Kostura Cannons are GOLDEN (if you have Entrenchment).

If you don't have Entrenchment, I highly reccomend it, it's very much worth the measley $10.

Anyhoo, there's the shortlist.

-Itharus

PS: Don't give Attila464 Karma. He's a tard with a Vote for Pedro shirt on.

Act as phase stabilizer node. Shoot at enemy homeworld, jump your fleet behind their lines, destroy some planets and jump back home before their defending fleet arrives.

Since you are coming to this from tec just remember that you are going to build fewer, but better ships.  Enslaved labor is good.  I've found that I do well with a fleet with an egg and carrier with the repair cloud going.  The rest of your fleet should comprise enforcers and assailants with a few planet bombers (can't remember name next to assailants).

LRM, LRF = ?

Ohhh okay, haha.  Thanks man.

I gatcha.  I'm looking to try out Vasari and maybe even stay with them because I saw someone say they can basically (to use a Warhammer reference) "deep-strike" into enemy territory and surprise them.  I like this concept and even when I played Starcraft, loved to use Nydus Canals to get into their base.  And their ships look certified BAMF.

Some might disagree with me, but I think of Vasari as a knife. Quick, deadly, and efficient. But when your opponent has time to haul out a firearm, you'd better have a backup plan. Yay, metaphors.

Well, the HCs themselves aren't the combat leaders, their abilities are, especially IF for support and protecting your LRFs and LCs from rushing LFs, and reintegration for actually staying alive despit the hoards of TEC ships and very powerful Advent ships. Spamming assalants and flak is a semi-viable strategy... but only if you spam everything else, which you might be able to do if your economy supports it, because of your FTL transmissions, because the vasari are designed to be able to smack the enemy in the ass when they don't expect it, but in direct contact on the enemy, the only hope you have is SBs. Why? Well, they are the only mobile SBs and are often used for offense. I mean, how would an AI or a noob react if their home world which is surrounded by three heavily fortified routes from the borders, and then a SB appears out of nowhere (basically) at their trade and culture center that is only defended by a level two SB and about four defense platforms? Yeah, you get the idea, especially if their other worlds are defended by static units, instead of actual fleets.

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