advent/vasari
i find vasari a lot easier to play most of the time. assailants and phase missiles are available at tier 1, and scramble bombers/repair cloud and phase missile strikecraft is nice. later on, there's overseers and subverters, and phase stabilizers. i also like enslaved labor.
whereas with advent, i usually end up living on stupid tier 3 illuminators and/or carriers that cost a fortune, until i can make the stretch to tier 5 and destras