They put up a stiff resistance with numbers 12:1 in their favour you say?
At its peak between Knight held v26 and Bish held A1 yes sir on 2 separate occasions I found myself alone 12 to 1 while attempting to knock out the VH at A1 and counted 12 enemy icons stack from 5 all the way to 15k. As usual I came in at the standard 10k alt and found myself having to shallow dive towards the base with no success on the Target. I was racking up 4-7 kills a sortie for a good 2 hrs in between the two bases but that was it and only landed twice.
I say resistance because despite being out umbered Knots were pushing back on A1 until the numbers were to overwhelming. As soon as I got tired of the madness I decided up to 29's and climb to 20k for air superiority and base shutdown at A1 at least once. Unfortunately while OTW to v26/A1 the vbase fell and so I took it to the city. V26 being the only Knit base to fall in that bottle neck of the map. Other knit bases fell to the NE but those were lightly defended if at all and not counting that I to the conversation in light of my absence there.