That starbase was probably casting Meteor Storm on your fleet while you fought within range of it's weapons. Meanwhile the Titan is casting an AoE on you while you whittle away at one of two targets that take quite a long time to go down. The Titan may also have been getting a large damage buff every time you killed a corvette near it.

Technically Advent does have the strongest fleet so yes to your last question. Like above taking Meteor Storm kills any fleet.

Advent defenses are probably the best in the game. You'll want several Ogrovs, LRMs with an Akkan to fire at the Starbase from out of range, or just tons of bombers, rather than fighting them head one.

The TEC titans seem a lot stronger than the Advent ones so you certainly didn't loose because of that, unless your titan was lower leveled.

Advent have a massive buff in firepower in their own gavitywell and have many powerful AOE attacks on thethie ships and starbase. Their tactical structures can buff shields and shield regen, can restore shields on single targets (if you were forcusing on the SB) and regenerate their AM.

If they were rebels their titan gets quite a firepower buff when their ships die, they can also attack you with a strong AOE attack.

The Advent Loyalist titan can mass-convert your ships and weaken your firepower by large amounts just by standing next to your fleet.

Your best bet is taking along 20+ Ogrovs and taking out the SB from outside it's range (Akkans increase your range to gains some additional safety distance) as quickly as possible and then take down the corvettes (rebel case) or the titan first (loyalist case).

Edit: One Titan being "better" than the others is suerly a thing of preference. I for one like the Advent Loyalist titan best for being able to debuff and take over fleets. The TEC and advent Rebel Titans are not my kind of thing, especially the Advent one. The TEC Rebel titan is too much of a loner for my tastes, ability wise.

I have to disagree with you there. If you actually look at the defense for the Advent its not that good. Beam Turrets have a nice increase in damage from Synergy but thats meh. And our Hangers give us +2 fighters per squadron and a nice shield to buildings. I do like our starbase though, meteors are fun but the enemy has to get very close to actually use this ability but is easily avoidable.

But the TEC get a range increase to their turrets(Which I believe allows them to hit LRF's) as well as a cooldown upgrade and its not even just that they have a short range rocket barrage. And to top it off they also can be equiped with Meson Bolt which does respectable damage and reduces the armor of enemies. Their hangers can be upgraded with Flak(I would easily trade this for both upgrades of the Advents hangers). this pretty much takes care of the TEC's need to have flak around their starbases. And don't get me started on red buttons range compared to Meteor Storm.

Im not saying that the Advent have bad defense, its moderate at best, mediocre at worst. But I wouldn't feed people with the idea that the Advent have the best defenses. This is just my opinion though.

/faceplam the TLT is so not OP is has like no attack power both rebels titans r better than the loyalist titans

The rebel's shield regeneration upgrade really helps in regards to survivability.

I disagree, simply because I think the Rebel titan will gain levels faster because it can destroy the Ankylon's fleet faster. The Ragnarov doesn't need a fleet to do damage, it can just warp in, blow as many ships up for XP as possible, then get out because the Ankylon doesn't have the stopping power. Eventually this level gap will give the Ragnarov the edge. If they both get to level 10 its an interesting match up, but even if the Ankylon can easily absorb the 700-900 DPS the Ragnarov is dishing out its support fleet will not, meaning the Ankylon will probably be outnumbered and its owner will be vulnerable to attacks on other fronts.

I agree. Yesterday I was playing a game with 5 AIs, minding my own business colonizing planets and building a strong economy, and then the message appreas " a hostile empire has launched a Titan!". Oh no! I need a Titan to fight the enemy Titan! Well no. The level 1 enemy Titan jumped in my territory not long after and was cut to pieces by bombers and a very lightly upgraded star base.

Yeah, I sometimes just go for my old diplomacy fleet composition now instead of titans. Capships plus small but strong support fleets, secure the front wells with a starbase and back them up with some ships and watch other players fail to plow through with their titan and run with the tail between their legs. My friends haven't learned that yet, so I'm even beating people that mopped the floor with me in diplomacy .

I liked the Radiance, by end game at least 6 to 8 of them leading my armada.

Then you went and told me it was sub-par to the other caps. Now everytime I build one I have a nagging voice in my head telling "IT'S BAD, IT'S BAD, BUILD SOMETHING ELSE!"

D:

Technically the new Discord is classified as a Battleship its actually very good. I always get it second if I have a Progenitor, an third if I start with a Halcyon. And the Radiance has its role, its really good against stopping a Sova Embargo. If its single player feel free to build one.

I did a small 1v1 to try it out intensely, then the other guy made a Radiance.

Thankfully, the AI was a moron and I managed to take down the Radiance without taking too much damage. Had it actually known how to use one properly, I would have gotten owned.

Seriously, though, in MP, does it not serve a role as a capital ship killer? No one's ever used it early game to murder enemy caps then later scuttled it then ressurected it into a level 10 something-more-useful?