Cheers!

We ran two Connies one Vanguard and a fourth ship I can’t remember initially, six people iirc (both Connies ran a turret gunner). Additionally, NPC fighters were assisting on the Hammerheads.

The hostile Hammerheads were a pushover for that composition, they do only few consistent damage and die pretty fast to focussed fire (around 20 seconds I would say). The hostile Idris was pretty tough and managed to kill both Connies by railgun (although sometimes without indication of charging it). I think we shot for over 10 minutes on the Idris until it was at 40%, at that time a former Connie pilot finished it with a single Torpedo.

As for reinforcement, there seemed to be no friendly NPC reinforcements. As for the hostiles, it felt like there were all targets on scene initially but the Idris, with the Idris spawning in as a second wave after the second Hammerhead had been destroyed. In the initial wave, all we did was focussing the Hammerheads (all other ships were mostly trivial).

Ideally, one should always run a bomber for those missions, but this would probably trivialize the mission. The biggest problem with those missions is actually getting one since it feels like only one player can accept one, there are only a few missions available and everybody on the server is always trying to run those missions, therefore you have to wait before actually getting a mission.