And my response as always.
First, I had an Artemis on the front of my ship, not a mine launcher. Jace's ship was a flare gun mine launcher side (launcher in the back.) I was in the process of calling Jace stupid for shooting those mines when NAF poked around.
Second, the odd engagement where Jace and I got separated. We had a few issues. First, we didn't do a good job of communicating our positions to each other. I thought Jace was lower, he thought I was higher. Also Jace and his target were both gradually going up and so even though I was trying to rise (only my gat was firing on the lower target, the rest were on repairs and buffs) I just couldn't seem to rise fast enough for some reason. Thus the engagement stayed unfocused, I got sandwiched and the Jace got finished off.
In the second to last engagement (the onein the canyon), we didn't realize we had that first kill for quite a bit. The reason I didn't turn was because I thought I was going to have to head off the ship as it tried to escape. There was tar, clouds, and blinding flares, we were kind of blinded.
On the last engagement, we would not let that ship escape regardless of the other ship. We had the blood lust going on.