The way I see in a group fight sharing bats and bots are normal procedures. It never occurred to me that it might sound like winning at all costs since it's definitely away from the guy giving the bots.
Winning at all costs does sound to me excessively using missiles and mines and GBs with missile loadouts etc. and of course using the overwhelming force.
But I see a nugget of truth in Malexa's post. The core members of the RHA have flown long together gotten used to fighting as unit. Many times RM forces, while may seem superior, are a mix of RM and indies. We got indies in our forces too, but they too have been taking part in fights with us for a pretty long, so they know how to handle themselves in a fight.
The point is, after a certain point in participant numbers in a fight the leading of the battle becomes a deciding factor, not sheer numbers. Even if you got a bunch of average/semi-good pilots that know how to not get blown up immediately you can win the battle if they are well led. RM has good leaders too in their old guard and new guys are growing after every battle.
RM is getting there, like you said Malexa, so no need to worry. I think we all are going to be pretty happy the tough school you are going through once the Liberty will roll out against Rheinland. Just fly and train together and you'll be okay. Yesterday I saw in Curacao event what Liberty has in store for all ofus.;)
The point is. I've been in the winning side and on the losing side. It's part of the game. As long as everybody can have a bit of fun and not be total jerks out there in the server we should be fine.