Take away for the 3 enemy planes....
My goal in a me vs many fight is to get all of the ones I'm fighting grouped up doing the same thing (like these 3 were at the initial merge). It makes the reverse a lot easier, you can make them into a "blob" and reverse the "blob" instead of the individual planes.
What should have happened is the 3 guys should have got separation from each other and made Violator fight all 3 instead of them instead of a single "blob". Makes picking a time to attack a lot easier when they "blob" up. After the initial merge, Violator would have had to pick which con is the most immediate threat(Probably the Hog in this case) and hope to kill him fast enough before the 2 others could jump back in, then as he is fighting his new threat the other 2 jump in again.....rinse repeat.