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Mavericks can seriously destroy a lightly defended base.
Therefore, surrounds a few laser towers with Dragon's Teeth, and make use of plasma cannons. The best defense I have found against a Maverick attack is to know when one is coming, and counter it with gunships and bombers. As long as you can see the attack coming ahead of time, you should be able to react with the appropriate countermeasure. If you play as Core, you can use the above tactics as well, but one tactic I find fun, amusing, and useful is to swipe an Arm construction unit and capture it with your Commander. I have pulled this little trick off many times, and It obliterates the need to worry about individual unit defenses, because I can then counter a Maverick attack with my own Mavericks.