I've got a "success."
I was running a trade fleet of three Cerberi (including one D), 8 or 10 Shuttles (mostly Hermes, may have had a Mercury or two as well), and one or two Buffaloes. Dropped out of hyperspace at a gas giant, and basically landed on a pirate fleet, which attacked me. I thought no big deal, they only had a Cerberus, a Hound, and a pair of Broadswords, and so I deployed all of my shuttles and Cerberi to deal with the problem. I did win, but things would have gone a bit better had I remembered to actually arm all of my ships; about half the Shuttles were completely unarmed, and one of the undamaged Cerberi didn't have anything in its medium mount. Oops. Lost two Cerberi (the D and the fully-armed one in good condition, because of course I remembered to fully arm the D but not the other good one), and three Shuttles, but all three shuttles and one of the Cerberi (fortunately the good one, not the D) were restored to a functional state after the fight. On the plus side, the first station I arrived at had a Buffalo for sale, which in my opinion was a more than adequate replacement for my losses, and I'd been hoping for something to cut down on fuel use in shipping runs anyways that didn't significantly increase my crew requirements.