Flying a slightly outdated F-DNLf (well the PF's keep it competitive) I was drawn into a planetary assault by Reejr's I-CSZ. An amazing battle unfolded like a seesaw as one or the other had the advantage. Near the end, the moderately damaged CSZ got a little too far from the base to finish off my severely damaged DNL and I managed to get the upperhand with a scatterpack and some Tbombs, having most of my other weapons destroyed.
Victory came down to one very small thing that went my favor... Reejr, and this is the very 1st time I have ever seen this happen, opened up on my scatterpack shuttle trying to kill it before it launched with an armed probe. I saw it streak out and miss at a range of 5 or so. The scatterpack opened up and I think one hit and the power required to hold the others along with his wasting his phasers for defensive fire allowed me to safely approach and several turns later, my 3 remaining phasers finished him off.
Getting out of range of the Battlestations damaged my ship even further and allowed Kaz in his I-CAZ to nearly catch me on the next mission, but I wisely entered into a nebula to help mask my escape...
Vgg!
Score another point for the fricken good guys!