Vasari are constantly on the offensive, if you aren't building a starbase in every system as part of your assault doctrine you are doing it wrong. Force the other players to build defenses in every system by jumping in short and then just going around anything in your way.

You don't need strong ships because 40 bombers will just annihilate everything in their path. Get a carrier as your first cap with the fleet heal ability and nothing will ever die.

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Starbases are extremely expensive investments. It's often a good idea to invest primarily in Assailants/flak/bombers instead, because they can be used in more than one gravity well while having a large amount of damage output.

Also, the Vasari are actually best on defense, although they do have powerful offensive abilities. However, think of Phase Jump Inhibitors, Gravity Bomb, very strong moving starbases, Phasic Trap, Overseers, Subverters...very often when I'm playing Vasari I try to lure my enemy into jumping into my system with an Orky and a couple PJIs, allowing me to destroy their entire fleet.

Then again, I play competitive PvP instead of against the AI, and you sound like you're playing against the AI.

Having a good number of Assailants will help a lot as well, especially given that the AI will always spam tons of light frigates early in the game.

If you want to discuss this more, make a new thread.

Though I'm no expert at this game, the Vasari fight in a few ways.

One of them is guerrilla hit and run tactics, however as witchfire said years ago, it isn't enough to win.  The key would be to use guerrilla to prime an area for an attack or to create a diversion, it could also be used during a major battle, while the majority of your enemy's fleets is fighting yours, you send in little strike forces to do things like destroying trade ports and factories.  This doesn't exactly work if your targets are well fortified though.

Vasari are already at a disadvantage in numbers and costs, it isn't made up with raw combat ability, so they use tons of denial and weakening abilities.  The Kortul is one of the more noticeable ones, with 3 out of the 4 effectively denying, the  one which doesn't fit is Power Surge, but it supports the other abilities none the less.  Weapon Jam prevents bombers and fighters from supporting, DS gets rid of those pesky abilities by draining am, VN works extremely well against tight formations, which can make it harder to have other ships support one another.  The overseer can slow down enemy reinforcement, giving time to finish off a few valuable targets or fall back.  The Sivuskras, which is the only dedicated mine layer in game, by making Gravity mines in the early to middle stages of the battle you can prevent the enemy from falling back quickly, thus preventing quick recovery of fleets.  There are far more examples, but I don't want to ramble on more about this.

Though this post is old, it can still have relevance and if it can be relevant it can be discussed.  That and I haven't seen any threads with this topic, so I'll just throw my post here.

Emptysun, make a new thread if you want to discuss this.

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The problem with resurrection is that the initial discussion is made with respect to an older version, and can cause confusion if people don't look at the date and realize they are reading a very old topic. 

There's nothing wrong with creating an entirely new thread to discuss this topic if you're interested, and in fact this is exactly what we're encouraging this poster to do.  However, bumping old discussions is potentially harmful.