I don't like jousting. Its just a small war of attrition to me. But I own almost every fighter in the game, my intention being to either loan or rent out to NPCs and TESTies who want to fly security and escort for my large industrial ship-based activities. Any of my personal military shenanigans will be orchestrated from the bridge of a Hammer Head. That being said, I occasionaly take a bounty mission to make some beer money, and when I do, I take the largest, most heavily armed bastard I have handy. Usually a Warden or a MIS. There is something about those size 9s on an Eclipse or a 'Tali though, it's deeply satisfying to watch a connie or a cutlass blow up(if you can get the damn torpedo to lock up). But if it's a damn Buccaneer, I usually abandon the mission altogether. I took one on the other day(in a Buccaneer) and I swear it took me 20 minutes to shoot both his wings and engines off and he still kept coming. His buddies shot off one of my wings and engine and I was down to 1 mantis, so I left, spawned a MIS, went back and killed him and to of his friends with just the guns on the MIS