You need to add ALOT more Light Carriers to your fleet. Atleast 20 Light Carriers to be effective. Offset your Bombers and Fighters by ten...........so say you have 30 Bombers........your gonna want about 20-24 Fighters. This way you can launch your fighters........let them mop up the Vasari SC and then launch your bombers so they can harrass the Vasari Fleet. What I like to do while my two fleets go blow to blow is use my SC as Executioners and swoop every last one of them in on one single target. Starting with Caps....then to command units........and then to the enemies healing units. This will effectively cause your opponent to route. If you keep up the momentum youll be able to bring atleast three or four of the AI's planets under your control before he gathers the resources to counterstrike. But hopefully by then youve replaced your loses and are able to hold his counter off.

Also Turn off the Demobots for your Hoshi's. They will totally ignore damaged ships to chase down the enemy fleet and attack them. If you want a quick strike against the AI's Caps or particular ships the SC is the key. But you need a good number of them to do it. As theyll hit to hard and too fast for the AI's Healers to fix the ships.

Use SC lots and endure no other way (SC are not affected by that ability)

as for the Desolator getting its shields back that is its lvl 6 ability, very very nasty especially against another cap

Thanks for all of the support guys! Im hoping to participate in the forums here more often as well so I'll be around.

So, Would 2 Level six Kols, a level 6 Marza, and a level 6 Akkan/Dunov be too much?

And about the "kill the subverters" comment. I try to focus fire, but its kind of hard if you have half your fleet inactive and all of his ships are getting repaired constantly. I'll try and implement these suggestions and tell you the outcome.

You have a lot of Cobolts, which are extremely effective against support cruisers. You might be able to send a bunch of them to attack the Subverters and Overseers, which will cripple the Vasari enemy. Also, they work against carriers, too.

if you are attacking him at one of his planets, he may have some nasty defenses too.  he can have repair bays to repair his ships - you will need to kill those, or lure him out of range.  his turrets can inject nanites into your ship systems, stopping shield regeneration, hull repair (i think?), etc.  his hanger bays can have phasic traps on them to snag your strikecraft - on and on.

Thanks guys.

It turns out I will have to test this at a later date because my ally was defeated and I was attacked by BOTH vasari nations at once with two gigantic fleets that I couldnt stave off...

but, I will restart the mission and apply these things, because this has happened to me quite a few times before.

Another TEC v VASARI question

2 Marzas lvl 10 (with maxed out missle upgrade in Military tree), 15 Kodiaks, 10 LRMS, 25 Lite Carriers(95 percent bombers),  15 Flak vs Vasari(Hard AI) 16 lite Carriers(mostly bombers), 15 Enforcers, the obligatory 5 seige frigs (Destructors or Devastators, can't remember at the moment), and 6 Subverters. 

Thanks to Missle Barrage I win the fight.  I lose all may Kodiaks, and LRMs.  9 Flak, all carriers, and Marzas's survive in the grav well with 4 repair bays, SB,  a frig factory, PJI.  I would say that if it were not for my Marzas, I would have been dead meat.  This scenario has happened a couple of times due to the fact the computer is in the next grav well with an Orky with ,oh 20,000 shields and hull armor points, and other various assundery items in entrench, it hasn'e been to happy about my Broadcast centers whacking him in culture.  I have been trying to build up a fleet to move in with, but the comp keeps me at bay with this little raiding party.  MOre flak to protect the Kodiaks and LRMS, and some Hoshikos maybe?  Thoughts anyone?

ps. I love Marza MB

I was just going to say that Ryat about the SC.

As for soft............you need to add atleast 1 dunov to your Cap count.(itll keep your Marzas alive) and A WHOLE lot of Hoshikos (turn off the demo bots so the Hoshis concentrate on healing and not killing.) The Hoshis will keep your Kodiaks and LRMs alive atleast the bulk of them. As for the Starbase....Well I usually go with just Fighters/Bombers Theyll drop a 20k HP SB in no time. Orgovs are great they will kill a SB in even less time then SC but they are easy prey during an all out battle between two fleets. Best thing to do is Jump your Fleet in have them skirt the outter Gravity Well and keep moving while your Orgovs and SC chase the Orky.