Hehe, that was AWESOME!   I think I got out of the pirate base with what...100 structure?  I am guessing you lost some Assailants to angry piwates.  

How many people mentioned Desolator?  See Marza dominates.

Completely agree.  The Desolator is a very good ship...it just happens to be a little overshadowed by the Evacuator for its main purpose, planetary siege.

Am I the only one who's noticed that the Marza's hull is held together with tinfoil, duct tape, and wishes?

First off. If you let a Marza get to Level 6 in anything smaller than a multi-system game, wtf.

Second - As I previously noted, Marzas are ALL FIREPOWER and NO DEFENSE. In order to keep one in play long enough to maneuver it into position for maximum Missile Barrage effectiveness, you have to keep at least one Dunov and a mess of Hoshikos on it.

Maybe it's just me, but the way I see it is the Marza is essentially a big catapult. If you get hit by the flaming boulders, you're screwed. However, if you get hit with the flaming boulder, it's your own fault for not seeing a giant ball of fire coming right at you.

Well...only a few capships are very hard to kill.  The Marza is reasonably sturdy, but like most capships it will go down when focused.  As you mention, it is all firepower.

Ummm....we get Marza's to level 10 in single system online games.   Sometimes you see one player get 2 or 3 Marza's to level 6 if they are a Missile Barrage whore.

Yeah, especially Hoshikos.

i think the only race with disantvatage here are the vasari. u have to build a cap that most players dont want to be one of the first caps. the marauder.

By the way, i dont think marza is overpowered, i just think the other are underpowerd. So, why is cleaning brilliance with malice nerfed when marza is not ?

Amen. DO NOT NERF the Mazra or the Swiss Army Egg. BUFF the other caps!!!

Heres a thought:

PPL are moaning about spamming carriers, but they dont get Flak ships!

If you dont get the ship that can counter something else, dont whine about it!

wtf, they really made a Cylon emoticon?

also, i know it doesn't fit on a license plate, but i've always favored a bumper sticker approach. i'd go with "i'm orbitin' your planet, suckin' your resources."

Another license plate
                              MB RULZ (missile barrage rules)

Do have to agree there, but then again the AI will always be stupid somehow.

While the marauder does have the BEST way to counter an incoming MB, the vasari do have another alternative. I do believe the kortul's disrupting strikes can intterupt the missile barrage, I am, however, not completely sure about this, as i've never tried it.

As for the stabalize phase space ability, i've never really used it as a assault ability. what i have used it for however, is to bolster up my defensive fleet when i need to. I link most of my key worlds up with stabilizer nodes, and have my main fleet out wrecking havok on the enemy worlds. If i suddenly get attacked, i'll have my marauder fire up its node and then my fleet (except for the marauder of course) can jump back to the world that is getting attacked to defend it.

If you are set on using the ability to get by a chokepoint or something tho, you miiiiight be able to do this.

1. send your marauder to the world you wish to bypass, and then activate gravity distortion to get through it really quickly.

2. jump to the next world, and when you reach it, fire up the node and send in your invading fleet.

this of course wont work if there is a starebase in the system you are bypassing, because you wont have any antimatter to use the node when you get to the next planet. It's probably much better to just use the vasari supercannon to make a node to jump your fleet to.

hope that helps you out

Volatile Nanites should be used with Charged Missiles and/or Phase Missile Swarm. Makes chain reaction much easier. I manage to set it off every time I use it.