Could we please reply either not at all or if so in a SINGLE of his three(3!!) identical threads he opened?

okay 2 things first of all i dont know how i opend 3 threads but i didnt mean to. 2nd of all the fihgters didnt work cus the first time i fought his fleet and he spammed bombers and i spammed fighters and flak frigs and he took out my caps in a few seconds. the time he ran all around the map and destorying my 2 cap carriers with the push

even with the sheild restore he still destroed the lv 4 cap very quickly

This is becoming a troll post, seriously.  People can't expect a cap to last long against 50 bombers.  25 Vasari carriers = 350 fleet supply.  350 fleet supply of illums = 58.  So let me ask you, what's your point?  If I build 58 illums, how fast will a cap go down if I focus fire them?  What if I built 35 Kodiaks?  It so happens he built 25 carriers, filled them with nothing but bombers, probably had phase missiles teched pretty high.  You should bloody run like the wind if you see that until you have good fighter coverage.  Counters to bomber spam is so easy, and once the bombers are destroyed, his carriers will be drained of AM and all it becomes is a mop up operation.  Heck, you could have just put a few hangers on each of your planets and filled them with fighters and you would have been just fine.  I feel no pity at all for you losing, you played like a noob. 

Sorry, you played worse than I thought.  I now read he was TEC, so fine, 300 fleet supply.  Anyway, you were a moron for trying to chase down 46 carriers and 60 javilens with your tiny fleet.  No wonder you lost completely.

Flaks don't do much against bombers, wrong damage/armor-type combination. I'd advise a bunch of fighters and 2 Halycons to keep pushing the bombers out of range. With enough fighters 1 might suffice. Still, like How said...it's not necessarily a matter of proper counter-strategies but rather the fact that you got outproduced. Even though a LF is the proper counter to Scouts it will still lose against 20 of them  

Like I said...if you build enough, anything can kill everything. Fighters are still the better choice against bombers, flak are way more useful against fighters. Plus: if you push the bombers away with telekinetic push the flak won't be able to do shit.

also i intially had him ountnumbered.

Tired of this discussion...flaks are a bad option against bombers, you'd have to spend far more money on flaks than he has to spend on bombers, period. That makes it a bad counter. Whereas 1 fighter squad will easily keep 2 bomber squads at bay, making it a good counter. Plus they'll be able to pursue the bombers whereas the flaks (not flanks, god damn it ) won't be able to do that, even with telekinetic push.

@superfleet: there's no such thing as a "skilled" bomber spam. Each and every fleet based on 1-2 ships is rather easy to counter. However, once the game is reaching its end the fleets of everyone (should) reach a level where there's a lot of damage dealt either way. So yes, 100bomber squads will kill each and every cap of yours if you do not have appropriate counters. But so would 100HC (pretty much the same cost for vasari/TEC, slightly more expensive for advent). There is no such thing as an uber fleet where all your ships are invulnerable and you won't lose a cap, no matter what.

Yes, they do. Eventually. Not before most of your fleet got wasted by the bombers, though. And even when you kill the bombers, he still has the carriers and flaks do jack against those. Fighters may not be the most effective counter to carriers as well, but at least they can chase them and kill a good deal of them since fighters at least can concentrate their fire where flaks can't. Against a bomber spammer, fighters are a much better investment then flaks, simply because they're way more versitile (you can always use the carriers to produce your own bombers when his bombers are dead, for example) and kill the bombers a good deal faster.

Reading is an essential skill.

You may have had him outnumbered in the outset. But you should have known he'd have bombers. Know what you're opponent is working with before he takes out your fleet with it. That's probably the reason you lost. Don't engage in a battle like that with ships that aren't going to help. With 45 carriers loaded with bombers and 60 javs, the guy left himself wide open to a fighter spam ANNIHILATION, as fighters are the hard counter for both of those units, 26 drone hosts is definetly not enought to do it though. I mean you can't kill 90 bomber squads and 60 javs fast enough with only 78 fighter squads. By the time your fighters wear down those bombers, the javs had probably already torn up what was left of your caps and started in on your carriers. To counter his fleet you needed to have had close to twice the number of carriers you did. Sick 90 fighter squads on the bombers and the rest just park (hold position behavior) next to the javs and watch their health deplete like a slowmotion missile barrage. AND in that situation, 2 halcyons are going to make the management of those bombers SO much easier, if used properly the bombers would get 0 passes before your fighters mop them up.

You simply didnt have enough ships to counter.

So is checking the "View Edits" button before responding like an a$$ hole.