Just had a very interesting experience with a random squad. I got together with them at first as a base was being capped. Didn't contribute much there, but then we all got Lightnings and with a mosquito as air cover went on a flanking maneuver deep into VS territory, managing to get all the way to their warp gate before being pushed back. At some point we all said screw it and someone went and got a galaxy. That went well for a while until a minor landing mishap crashed the gal. Another one was spawned by another newly joined squad member and we rode around in that for a while. I, as usual just took a gunner seat and enjoyed the ride. Took a couple more bases before something, not sure what, took that gal down. I managed a quick bailout, redeployed to the warpgate and got a gal of my own. Had a bit more success, with people cursing my landing on rooftops... (Oh whine whine... there's no flat spot on the ground, you can climb a few stairs.) Ended up at allatum, doing well in taking that facility, I'd had to bug out a few times due to tanks or reavers, but never actually died. One lib caused me trouble, but luckily it was just one guy trying to fly and gun at the same time, so I scared him off with sustained AA fire from my deployed gal. Had he had any backup though, I'd have been dead. Came back, did a bit more transporting around the allatum base to retake A and B before we realized that we'd been surrounded by the NC. Formed a quick assault squad to retake a couple of connecting outposts, made it to snake river before realizing even that'd been surrounded, so went to the Vanu archives. Took it, more whining about stairs. Tried to move back up to take the Allatum surroundings, landed at a small outpost and let the troops take it. At some point a prowler rolled up behind me... just as we were loading up and taking off, he decided he couldn't wait anymore and rammed me, killing me and most of my squad... good session that ended very badly... He apologized... but still...