Vassari Fleet Makeup

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I've looked at a few of these threads and it looks like to me, that everyone posts about Advent or TEC, the people who post about Vassari already have their strats down.

Normally, I build a lot of Skirmishers as fodder, and then 20-30 Enforcers, and some Subverters with my cap ships in tow. I was reading another thread and someone had mentioned how light frigates should not be built after X point in the game.

The reason why I mention this is because I have made a fleet out of LRF ships, and they just get butchered... I didn't put any fodder in, and they got torn apart. What should I build for fodder if the light frigates are essentially useless?

Is there something I'm missing? I'd like to know what other Vassari players make their fleets out of, what ships are in your fleet?

Early on, end game, whatever.
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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top
As the game stands, Assailants are the ship of choice early, as lrf's are the ship of choice for all races in early stages of the game. Even in 1.1 I think this is going to stay at the minimum semi-true.

Since everyone makes lrf's, the light frigates (aka skirmishers) are fodder and will go down quicker than a pizza at a weight watchers convention. They have medium armor and lrf's do anti-medium damage.

Assailants, however, are not weak. They get phase missles. You must get phase missles, tier 3 phase missles where 20% get through if possible. That's how the Assailants are strong. Bypassing mitigation shields is unbelievably awesome.

Also, you're gonna need about 30-40 assailants early. I know that number is huge, but you need a fleet like this that can buy you the time and power to get a better fleet.

I don't play Vasari much because I don't like them, but my fleets are in general:

1. First installment of 40 assailants and the egg
2. Second installment of Carrier cap and some carriers mixed with more assailants.
3. Third installment of Devastator and enforcers
4. Fourth installment of Subverters

Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top
I would also add sentinals to the 1st installment list. The egg and assailants do not do very well against fighters and bombers. The sentinals will also help against other LRF spammers. Once you do your first fleet upgrade, I would build 1 sentinal for every 5 LRFs. This will become even more important with v1.1.

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